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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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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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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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“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again": First Edition of James Baldwin's Just Above My Head; Signed by him
BALDWIN, JAMES.
Just Above My Head: A Novel.
London: Michael Joseph 1979.
First edition of Baldwin’s final novel “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the dedication page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stonecastle Graphics.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 131579
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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 James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man; inscribed by him
BALDWIN, JAMES.
Going to Meet the Man.
New Yrok: The Dial Press 1965.
First edition of Baldwin’s singular collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper, “God bless, James Baldwin.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Author photograph by Martha Holmes. Rare signed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 129388
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“YOU TOOK THE BEST, SO WHY NOT TAKE THE REST?”: FIRST EDITION OF ANOTHER COUNTRY; inscribed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, JAMES.
Another Country.
London: Michael Joseph 1963.
First edition of Baldwin’s classic work, nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “For Betty: Peace. James Baldwin.” In fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 144034
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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