Another Country.

BALDWIN, James.

$3,500.00

Item Number: 144034

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, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “For Betty: Peace. James Baldwin.” In fine condition.

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).