Baldwin (James) Notes of a Native Son
£295
London, Michael Joseph, 1964.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
A first UK edition of American writer & civil rights activist James Baldwin’s first non-fiction book, first published in the US in 1955. The ten essays collected here include Baldwin’s critiques of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Richard Wright’s Native Son, alongside reflections on his decade living in Paris.
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A very good copy, in jacket with minor rubbing and creasing to extremities, but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Charles Gorham.
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