'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, ...
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'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame. Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin's last novel is a monumental saga that ranges from New York to Paris, Korea to Africa to portray how profoundly racial politics can shape life, especially in the private business of love. 'Warm, melancholy . . . Hall Montana's voice is the conduit for Baldwin's most distinctive quality as a writer, his abundant tenderness' The New York Times
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Good. Pages are clean! Minor shelf wear The dust jacket is in rough shape, shows significant wear. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book First trade edition, first printing stated. Maroon cloth boards, gilt titles, facsimile signature to front board. One small (1/4" closed tear with no loss of material to bottom DJ panel), pub's remainder spray to bottom edge. ". Baldwin offers us not only a fervent plea for a 'new vocabulary, ' but a compassionate, searing vision of the way in which suffering transforms and strengthens people in a work which is his most ambitious and poetic to date" (-from the dustjacket). 597 pp.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Dial Press, New York. 1979. 597 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that inflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Montana and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses-and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 597 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First trade edition, first printing stated. Maroon cloth boards, gilt titles, facsimile signature to front board. One small (1/4" closed tear with no loss of material to bottom DJ panel), pub's remainder spray to bottom edge. ". Baldwin offers us not only a fervent plea for a 'new vocabulary, ' but a compassionate, searing vision of the way in which suffering transforms and strengthens people in a work which is his most ambitious and poetic to date" (-from the dustjacket). 597 pp.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 1979 First US Edition with no subsequent dates listed, signed "God Bless" by James Baldwin on title page. 597pp, octavo bound in burgundy cloth. slight bumping to front fore-edge corners, faint fading to spine ends, minor discoloration to front and rear book crown, tight binding, light soiling top page edges, interior clean throughout, Very Good+; dj covers clean, 3 small chips top dj spine, not price-clipped, in mylar, Very Good. Signed by author.