GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
by Baldwin, James
(New York): Dell, 1970. Near fine.. Dell "Contemporary Classic" paperback edition of Baldwin's first novel, his semi-autobiographical "extended rite of exorcism" (Harris) - with new cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. In writing this book, Baldwin did more than draw from his own experiences growing up with a religiously domineering father in 1930s Harlem: he wrote and re-wrote the work for ten years as a way to come to terms with the painful relationship with his father.... Read More
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SHOW (January 1964; Volume IV, Number 1)
by Baldwin, James; Steinem, Gloria
(New York): (Hartford Publications), 1964. First edition. Very good plus.. Includes Baldwin's "A Prayer and Sermon," excerpted from Act II of BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE and presented as this issue's editorial in light of the recent Kennedy assassination. This issue also includes Gloria Steinem's "MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC," a review of New York's first Annual Avant Garde Festival profiling organizer Charlotte Moorman and composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Max Neuhaus, and Earle Brown. 13'' x 10''. Original wrappers.... Read More
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JAMES BALDWIN: The George Bixby Collection
by Baldwin, James; Bixby, George; Cassidy, Brian
(Silver Spring, MD): Type Punch Matrix, 2024. First edition. Fine.. Limited edition catalogue dedicated to the career of the great James Baldwin - from the collection of bookseller, bibliographer, and publisher George Bixby. Some 300 items in all - originally collected by Bixby for an unrealized bibliography of the author - the catalogue covers Baldwin's books (in multiple editions, proofs, and foreign editions); magazine contributions; and ephemera, fliers, programs, posters, and other assorted items. Arranged into four sections... Read More
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PLAYBILL (May 1965; Volume 2, Number 5): Amen Corner
by [Baldwin, James]
New York: Playbill Incorporated, 1965. First edition. Very good plus.. Program for the Broadway premiere of James Baldwin's THE AMEN CORNER at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, following a Los Angeles production at the Robertson Playhouse the previous year - including two promotional tickets to the play. 9'' x 6''. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. 52 pages. Light soil and edgewear to wrappers.
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CRUCIBLE (Summer 1969)
by Baldwin, James
Auckland, New Zealand: Crucible, 1969. First edition. Near fine.. Includes "James Baldwin Talking," a "collage of statements made by James Baldwin during his two week tour of Italy in 1965," compiled by Dan Georgakas and previously printed in ARTS IN SOCIETY at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 10.75'' x 8.5''. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. 60 pages. Light edgewear and page toning.
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TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. Very good.. Uncorrected galleys of the first edition of Baldwin's "criminally underrated" (Weekes) novel about the life of a Black actor. TELL ME is the story of Black actor Leo Proudhammer, his brilliant career shadowed by the condescension, alienation, and physical threats visited on him by a white America that will tolerate him only so far as he entertains, and which exacts heavy penalties for his efforts to live as a free... Read More
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JIMMY'S BLUES : Selected Poems
by Baldwin, James
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First printing. Fine in near fine or better jacket.. First US edition containing two additional poems not in the 1983 British first edition. Though Baldwin wrote poetry all his life, JIMMY'S BLUES was his first published collection. In her introduction to a later edition, Nikky Finney writes: "From the beginning of his life to the very end, I believe Baldwin saw himself more poet than anything else: The way he cared about... Read More
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TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE
by Baldwin, James
(New York): Dell, 1969. Near fine.. First US paperback edition of Baldwin's "criminally underrated" (Weekes) fourth novel about the life of a Black actor. TELL ME is the story of Black actor Leo Proudhammer, his brilliant career shadowed by the condescension, alienation, and physical threats visited on him by a white America that will tolerate him only so far as he entertains, and which exacts heavy penalties for his efforts to live as a free man and artist.... Read More
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JIMMY'S BLUES : Selected Poems
by Baldwin, James
London: Michael Joseph, 1983. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's first published poetry collection. Though better known for his prose, Baldwin wrote poetry all his life. In her introduction to a later edition, Nikky Finney writes: "From the beginning of his life to the very end, I believe Baldwin saw himself more poet than anything else: The way he cared about language. The way he believed language should work." His poems document the "wonderings of a... Read More
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JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Fine in fine slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother. Baldwin's epic and ambitious late novel, written from the author's house in St-Paul-de-Vence, works toward a glimpse of a "utopian domestic space occupied by two black men in love" (Zaborowska) in its final pages: a much longed for,... Read More
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THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN
by Baldwin, James
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this essay on the Atlanta Child Murders, which a contemporary review at the time called "nothing less than an update on the progress-or lack of it-of the American Dream." Baldwin first began researching the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-1981 on assignment from Walter Lowe, the first Black editor at PLAYBOY, where an earlier version of this essay was first published and won the magazine's... Read More
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GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
by Baldwin, James; Silverman, Burt
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Near fine or better.. Signed limited Franklin Library edition of Baldwin's first novel, his semi-autobiographical "extended rite of exorcism" (Harris). In writing this book, Baldwin did more than draw from his own experiences growing up with a religiously domineering father in 1930s Harlem: he wrote and re-wrote the work for ten years as a way to come to terms with the painful relationship with his father. In the novel as in... Read More
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EINE ANDERE WELT [ANOTHER COUNTRY]
by Baldwin, James; Hans Wollschläger
(Hamburg): Rowohlt, 1970. Fine in near fine jacket.. Early German edition of novel that Baldwin said "makes GIOVANNI seem conservative-almost square." Baldwin's 1962 novel was written over the course of more than a decade, during the author's stays in Greenwich Village, in William Styron's Connecticut guest house, in Paris, and finally in Istanbul: a writing process so long and so spread out over the globe because "I couldn't find the peace of mind-the space free of other people-to... Read More
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PLAYBILL (May 1964; Volume 1, Number 5): Blues for Mister Charlie
by [Baldwin, James]
New York: Playbill Incorporated, 1964. First edition. Very good plus.. Program for the Broadway premiere of James Baldwin's BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE. 9'' x 6''. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. 56 pages. Light edgewear, minor soil to wrappers.
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
by Baldwin, James
London: Michael Joseph, 1974. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First UK edition of Baldwin's great novel centered around a Harlem love story. With every year that passes since Barry Jenkins's shimmering and triumphant 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin's love story, the contemporary critical reaction to the novel - hostility to the very concept of a love story, that base and contemptible form; contempt for the unmistakable stamp of human affections and the ineradicable stain of... Read More
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CRUCIBLE (Summer 1969)
by Baldwin, James
Auckland, New Zealand: Crucible, 1969. First edition. Fine.. Includes "James Baldwin Talking," a "collage of statements made by James Baldwin during his two week tour of Italy in 1965," compiled by Dan Georgakas and previously printed in ARTS IN SOCIETY at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 10.75'' x 8.5''. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. 60 pages. Light edgewear.
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ESQUIRE (July, 1961; Volume LVI, Number 1)
by Baldwin, James; Bellow, Saul; Hitchcock, Alfred
New York: Esquire, Inc, 1961. First edition. Very good minus.. Includes the first publication of "The New Lost Generation," Baldwin's essay on American expatriate life in Europe. This issue also features a photo-illustrated essay on "Violence" by Alfred Hitchcock, an excerpt from Saul Bellow's HERZOG, a "Comment" column by Gore Vidal, and book reviews by Dorothy Parker. 13'' x 10''. Original wrappers. 138 pages. Moderate edgewear and creasing to wrappers, light chipping to spine, toning and minor dampstaining... Read More
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ESQUIRE (November 1969; Volume LXXII, Number 5)
by Baldwin, James; Hansberry, Lorraine
New York: Esquire, Inc, 1969. First edition. Very good.. Includes Baldwin's "Sweet Lorraine," a memoir of Lorraine Hansberry. Baldwin's tribute precedes and introduces "My Name is Lorraine Hansberry, I Am a Writer," selected sections from the then-forthcoming TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK, a posthumous collection of Hansberry's autobiographical writings. 13'' x 10''. Original wrappers. 280 pages. Light edgewear and scuffing to wrappers, wear and soil to spine.
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Very good.. Rare uncorrected galleys of the first edition, made up from sheets from the limited edition (and with an unsigned limitation page), of Baldwin's great novel centered around a Harlem love story. With every year that passes since Barry Jenkins's shimmering and triumphant 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin's love story, the contemporary critical reaction to the novel - hostility to the very concept of a love story, that base and contemptible... Read More
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THE DEVIL FINDS WORK
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's extended essay on a life in film. THE DEVIL FINDS WORK traces a captivating line from the author's first wondering childhood glimpse of Joan Crawford's straight shoulders through to his dispiriting season in Hollywood writing a doomed screenplay on the life of Malcolm X for an industry with little love for art and no use for honesty. THE DEVIL incorporates memoir, social commentary,... Read More
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GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Universal Library / Grosset & Dunlap, 1960. Very good.. First trade paperback edition, number 95 in the Universal Library series. In writing this book, Baldwin did more than draw from his own experiences growing up with a religiously domineering father in 1930s Harlem: he wrote and re-wrote the work for ten years as a way to come to terms with the painful relationship with his father. In the novel as in Baldwin's own life, the... Read More
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BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE
by Baldwin, James
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Baldwin's second play, dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers and partially based on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. The play's inspiration was partially suggested to him as a theatrical subject by Elia Kazan, and Kazan took credit for it early and often ("I gave him the idea for that play-'Do a play on the Till case'"). In consequence... Read More
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NO NAME IN THE STREET
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1972. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's fourth nonfiction book, a personal, philosophical, and political memoir. NO NAME covers from his childhood in Harlem to his life and work in the postwar '40s; to the turn of the McCarthyite '50s into the turbulent '60s, "when many of my friends vanished into the hills, or into anarchies called communes, or into orgone boxes." Included are the years when Martin Luther King... Read More
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MCCALL'S (October 1966, Volume XCIV, Number 1)
by Baldwin, James
Dayton, OH: McCall Corporation, 1966. First edition. Near fine.. Includes Baldwin's prose portrait of good friend and "beautiful cat" Marlon Brando, part of the magazine's "Double Exposure" feature. 13.5'' x 10.5''. Original wrappers. 206 pages. Light edgewear and toning to wrappers, with a few tiny chips.
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JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First printing. Near fine in very good minus jacket.. First edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother. Baldwin's epic and ambitious late novel, written from the author's house in St-Paul-de-Vence, works toward a glimpse of a "utopian domestic space occupied by two black men in love" (Zaborowska) in its final pages: a... Read More
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