How I Came West and Why I Stayed
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. Paperback edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 182pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Fine. Inscribed by the author on the first page, and additionally signed on the title page. More
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Loving Wanda Beaver
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 213pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 black cloth with green paper covered boards and a blue ink stamped title on the spine. Fine / Fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, and also signed on the title page. More
Worlds Without End: A Book of Short Stories
London: The Sylvan Press, 1945. Biro. First edition. Hardcover. 168pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped design on the front cover. Very good. The spine ends and edges of the covers are bumped and rubbed, and the..... More
U and I
New York: Random House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 179pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with light green paper covered boards. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The rear panel is very lightly soiled. Inscribed by Baker on the half title page. Nicholson Baker also wrote The..... More
Another Country
New York: Vintage International, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. 436pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, 'Another Country' is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped..... More
The Devil Finds Work
New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. 127 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and..... More
The Fire Next Time
New York: Vintage, 1992. First Vintage Internation Edition (later printing). Paperback. 106 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of..... More
The Fire Next Time
New York: Modern Library, 2021. Reprint. Hardcover. 87pp. Duodecimo [19cm]. 1/4 beige cloth over matching boards. Title stamped in bronze on spine. A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as..... More
Giovanni's Room
New York: Vintage, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. 169pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. A fictional offering from James Baldwin. In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. More
If Beale Street Could Talk
United States of America: Vintage International, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 197pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told..... More
Nobody Knows My Name
New York: Vintage, 1993. First Vintage International Edition (later printing). Paperback. 241pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers..... More
Notes of a Native Son
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012. First Beacon Paperback; Later Printing. Paperback. 179pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps. From back of book: Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies..... More
Vintage Baldwin
New York: Vintage, 2004. Later printing. Paperback. 199pp. Octavo [20.2cm]. Pictorial wraps with a gray and white spine. Vintage Baldwin includes the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the galvanizing civil rights examination “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”; the essays “Fifth Avenue..... More
I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Picture
United States of America: Vintage International, 2017. Later printing. Paperback. 118pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed..... More
The Day of Creation
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 254pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good condition. The front cover is ever so slightly concave. In a very good dust jacket. A first edition from the author..... More
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Super-Cannes
Hammersmith, London: Flamingo, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 391 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. Black cloth over boards with silver stamped title on spine. Corners and head/tail of spine are bumped. Page block is just beginning to separate from binding. Original dust jacket is in very good condition. It is heavily..... More
The Salt Eaters
New York: Vintage, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. 295pp. Octavo [20.5] Illustrated wraps. "Set in a town somewhere in the South, here is the story of a community of black people searching for the healing properties of salt who witness an event that will change their lives forever. Some of them are..... More
Finding Caruso
New York: A Marian Wood Book, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 302pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 green paper with tan paper covered boards. Fine / Fine. Signed by the author on the title page. This is a novel of the American West. More
The Novels, Tales & Sketches of J. M. Barrie (12 volumes)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Author's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo [21.5 cm]. Green cloth over boards with gilt title on spines and front boards, and gilt ruled border on front boards. Top of text block is gilt. Deckled fore-edges. The extremities are bumped and rubbed. Many of the boards have..... More
Macario: A textbook based on a filmscript by B. Traven
Riverside, CA: J. B. Blanchard Press, 1973. Paperback. SIGNED. 196pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly soiled and creased. The pages are age-toned. The book is sturdy. Inscribed by the co-author, Leo L. Barrow, on the dedication page. More
Macario: A textbook based on a filmscript by B. Traven
Riverside, CA: J. B. Blanchard Press, 1973. Paperback. SIGNED. 197pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are faded and very lightly soiled. The book is sturdy. Inscribed at length by the co-author, Leo L. Barrow, on the dedication page. More
Coming Soon
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Advance reading copy. Paperback. 393pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. A tale of two writers. More
The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 281pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 dark red cloth over gray boards. The front cover is a bit warped, and there is a small sticker stain on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket with rubbing and light edge wear..... More
Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction 1984-94
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 377pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 light blue over light green boards, with very minor warping to the boards. In a dust jacket, with rubbing. Signed by John Barth on the title page. More