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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own; Signed by Eddie Glaude
GLAUDE, JR. EDDIE [JAMES BALDWIN].
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.
New York: Crown 2020.
First edition, early printing of this “unparalleled masterpiece of social criticism” (Imani Perry). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eddie Glaude on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 117519
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Rare De Witt Clinton High School Class of 1941 Yearbook; signed by James Baldwin as a graduating senoir
[BALDWIN, JAMES].
James Baldwin Signed De Witt Clinton High School Class of 1941 Yearbook.
Bronx, New York: Published by the Senior Class of De Witt Clinton High School June 1941.
Rare De Witt Clinton High School Class of 1941 Yearbook signed by James Baldwin as a graduating senior. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by James Baldwin to the right of his senior photograph of page 36, “James Baldwin.” His accolades read: JAMES A. BALDWIN “Baldy” Magpie Editorial Boards; Student Court. Novelist-Playwright. ‘Fame is the spur and – ouch!’ Additionally signed by dozens of other graduating seniors. With copies of the Commencement Exercises, List of Awards and Prizes and June 1941 ‘Class-Nite’ program laid in. In very good condition. Exceptionally rare, one of the earliest Baldwin autographs obtainable.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 130241
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Rare original May 17, 1963 Time Magazine Cover; Signed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, JAMES.
James Baldwin Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Chicago: Time Magazine May 17, 1963.
Original cover from the May 17, 1963 issue of Time Magazine featuring a portrait of James Baldwin, inscribed by him, “Peace, James Baldwin.” Quarto, original illustrated front wrapper. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141087
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“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back": First Edition of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room; Signed by Him
BALDWIN, JAMES.
Giovanni’s Room.
New York: The Dial Press 1956.
First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Seymour Chwast. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 81085
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First Edition of James Baldwin's Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone; Inscribed by Him
BALDWIN, JAMES.
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone.
New York: The Dial Press 1968.
First edition of this major work by Baldwin. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Kathleen Peace- James Baldwin.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $2,850.00 Item Number: 106735
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First Edition of The Negro Protest; Signed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, JAMES; MALCOLM X; MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
The Negro Protest.
Boston: The Beacon Press 1963.
First edition of this collection of interviews done by Kenneth B. Clark. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a talk with Kenneth B. Clark and with a note about the interviews by Henry Morgenthau III. Bookplate.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 118239
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First Edition of James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BALDWIN, JAMES.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1985.
First edition of this classic collection by the author of Giovanni’s Room. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “To Maggie, yours, James Baldwin.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 120563
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"With Much Love": First Edition of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BALDWIN, JAMES.
If Beale Street Could Talk.
New York: The Dial Press 1974.
First edition of Baldwin’s fifth novel, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Ethan Reinhard, Thank you. James Baldwin.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Braswell.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 124543
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“The rebirth of the soul is perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan": First Edition of Go Tell It On the Mountain; inscribed by James Baldwin to his mother
BALDWIN, JAMES.
Go Tell It On The Mountain.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953.
First edition of Baldwin’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by James Baldwin on the front free endpaper to his mother, “Mama from Rizzy from Jimmy – August 21st!” The recipient, Baldwin’s mother Emma Berdis Jones, left Baldwin’s biological father before moving to Harlem where Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924. When James was 3 years old, his mother married a Baptist preacher David Baldwin with whom she had eight children between 1927 and 1943. The family was poor, and Baldwin’s stepfather, to whom he referred in essays as his father, treated him more harshly than his other children. His intelligence, combined with the persecution he endured in his stepfather’s home, drove Baldwin to spend much of his time alone in libraries where he discovered his passion for writing at an early age. At the age of 13, he wrote his first article, titled “Harlem—Then and Now”, which was published in his school’s magazine, The Douglass Pilot. Baldwin and his mother remained close throughout his lifetime, she was an honorary guest at his 60th birthday celebration at UMass Amherst in August 1984. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket which has been restored and with the spine and front panel supplied in facsimile. Jacket drawing by John O’Hara Cosgrave. An exceptional association.
Price: $40,000.00 Item Number: 125755