James Baldwin / GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN 1st Edition 1953

Description: GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN Author: Baldwin, James Title: GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN Publication: New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953 Edition: First Edition, First Printing, First State Dust Jacket Description: Octavo, 303 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. White spine with drawn color design and black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$3.95", has moderate age-toning throughout, mild shelving wear, moderate wear along the edges, small dents on the tail edges, a tear along the front fore corner, mild wear along the rear fore corners, moderate bending wear along the joints, a tear along the center of the front flap, adhesive staining on the front flap, a tear along the tail corner of the rear flap, mild chipping along the spine head and tail edges, and mild wear throughout the spine. Boards are bound in publisher's brown cloth, have moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges and spine, mild wear along the edges, and mild wear along the spine head and tail. Textblock has mild adhesive staining on the end-pages, mild adhesive wear along the front and rear pastedowns, mild age-toning throughout, moderate age-toning along the edges, mild wear along the edges, and staining along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved []. NOTES James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in New York City to Emma Berdis, who herself fled north following a rise in racial segregation and discrimination in the South, arriving in Harlem at age 19. Berdis would marry preacher David Baldwin in 1927, with whom James would have a greatly contentious relationship with until David's death in 1943. Baldwin had a rather contentious relationship with himself as he was gay, but greatly denied it, using his faith to suppress that part of himself. That self-hatred combined with being his family's primary breadwinner and the weight of those responsibilities, led Baldwin to nervous breaks and drink, and he spent much of his teenage years adrift. It would be after finding some peace amongst friends that Baldwin would once more indulge his love of reading and writing. Though he was initially made an offer on the manuscript which would become "Go Tell It on the Mountain", that first deal fell through, and Baldwin's first published writings would be several essays published between 1947-48. Baldwin still felt himself incomplete and unsure of who he was, and thus moved to Paris in late 1948, living there until 1957. In 1953, Baldwin would see his first novel , "Go Tell It on the Mountain", published from across the sea.Upon publication and since "Go Tell It on the Mountain" has received immensely positive critical and commercial success, becoming Baldwin's most beloved and well-known novel. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" is a semi-autobiographical novel following an intelligent teen in 1930's Harlem and his relationship to his family and faith, many of the characters being reflections of people within Baldwin's life, from his mother, to his religious and abusive stepfather, to even the protagonist John Grimes who himself is quite similar to Baldwin. The novel explores, beyond the pieces close to Baldwin's own life, the role of the Pentecostal Church in the lives of Black Americans, its duality as a source of both repression and hope, of hypocrisy and community. Seller ID: 1386235 Subject: Biography & Autobiography, Literature Welcome to the eBay store of Second Story Books! DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have an extensive internet presence and provide accredited appraisals member ASA.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

Price: 6000 USD

Location: Rockville, Maryland

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