Go Tell It on the Mountain

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with a less than usual amount of the endemic spine fading, with a few very tiny nicks or tears, and NO restoration. A fresh and handsome copy of Baldwin's first book, about a day in the lives of various members of a Harlem church and, through flashbacks, about their forebears. Upon publication it was immediately hailed as a major treatment of Black life in America and established Baldwin as the leading Black novelist of his generation. A highly desirable cornerstone of any African-American literature collection. On both the Modern Library and Radcliffe 100 Best Novels of the Century lists, this is a considerably better than usual copy.