Going To Meet the Man.

“The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held them--could not forgive": First Edition of James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man; Inscribed by Him

Going To Meet the Man.

BALDWIN, James.

Item Number: 107456

New York: The Dial Press, 1965.

First edition of this collection of short stories including three new works never before published. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by James Baldwin on the dedication page, “love, Jimmy Baldwin.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph of Baldwin by Martha Holmes. Uncommon signed.

The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.

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