Another Country.
“YOU TOOK THE BEST, SO WHY NOT TAKE THE REST?”: FIRST EDITION OF JAMES BALDWIN'S ANOTHER COUNTRY; SIGNED BY HIM
Another Country.
BALDWIN, James.
$7,500.00
Item Number: 129087
London: Michael Joseph, 1963.
First edition of Baldwin’s classic work, nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “All the best. To you and yours. James Baldwin.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Another Country is America. The scene is New York - from Greenwich Village to Harlem - and all of the places, fashionable and sordid, that lie between. The city looms over the events of a crucial year in the lives of the eight major characters whose tale is told in this remarkable novel. Barriers of sex and color are torn away; the complexities of love and hate are mercilessly explored - between black and white, between man and woman, between man and man. "An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience" (Washington Post).