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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BALDWIN, JAMES.
Go Tell It On The
Mountain.
303 pages. 8vo, original cloth in a dust jacket with some wear to the edges,
paper repairs to reverse; spine about one degree darker than the front panel.
New York: Knopf, 1953
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
’
S FIRST BOOK
.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BALDWIN, JAMES.
Giovanni’s Room.
248
pages. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket spine lightly toned with two small
spots on the rear panel.
New York: Dial, 1956
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
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S SECOND NOVEL
.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BALDWIN, JAMES.
The Welcome Table.
A 98-page Xerox copy of the first, unfinished draft, inscribed and signed by Baldwin to his
friend and sometime lover Shawn Henderson.
Np, nd
[1,500/2,500]
A PRESENTATION COPY BEARING AN INSCRIPTION IN BLUE INK ON THE FIRST PAGE
: “
FOR
SHAWN
,
WITNESS
,
TELL THE TRUTH
,
LOVE JIMMY B
.”
“The Welcome Table” was Baldwin’s last
work, unfinished at his tragic death at 63 at St Paul de Vence, France. The work is set on the
Riviera, in a place much like his own.
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