James Baldwin

A signed limited first edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother.

• James Baldwin (American).
• New York: The Dial Press, 1979.
• 597 pages.
• Signed by Baldwin on limitation page.
• Number 258 of 500 specially printed, signed and numbered copies.
• Bound in the original burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front board, all edges gilt, cream endpapers, in original burgundy cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt to one side. 

Baldwin's epic and ambitious late novel, written from the author's house in St-Paul-de-Vence, works toward a glimpse of a "utopian domestic space occupied by two black men in love" (Zaborowska) in its final pages: a much longed for, hard-won and briefly held space for work and happiness. "It was beautiful to watch them; freedom is an extraordinary spectacle."