Go Tell It on the Mountain - First Edition - James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."

It was first published in 1953 and is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way, Americans understand themselves. "

With vivid imagery and with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story" (The New York Times).

    Listed on Modern Library's 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
    Black cloth covered boards with gilt titling on spine. Boards aged and colour faded on corners, but fine otherwise, no nicks. Text block is clean throughout.
    Dust wrapper, price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked especially on corners and on spine. Covered with a protective Brodart.
    Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good.
    1st Edition. Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1954.
    Jacket Condition: Good
    Binding Condition: Very Good
    Overall Condition: Good to Very Good
    Size: Octavo, 209mm X 145mm X 24mm
    256 pages.

A very good copy considering its age.

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