James Baldwin
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
The Dial Press
1968
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The uncorrected galleys of the first edition of Baldwin's fourth novel about the life of a Black actor.
- James Baldwin (American).
- New York: The Dial Press, 1968.
- 173 pages.
- Bound in original plastic comb-bound paper wrappers.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is the story of Black actor Leo Proudhammer, his brilliant career shadowed by the condescension, alienation and physical threats visited on him by a white America that will tolerate him only so far as he entertains, and which exacts heavy penalties for his efforts to live as a free man and artist.
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GoodInk notation to front wrapper.
Toning to wrappers and leaf margins.
Some soiling.
Shadow of former paperclip to front wrapper and title page.
Comb intact.
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