Baldwin's Powerful First Book of Essays, in Nice Jacket
Notes of a Native Son.
Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955.
Price: $5,500.00
About the item
First edition. 175 pp. 8vo. Red cloth with black stamping. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket, with fading to spine and one little bump to top of rear hinge.
Item #375840
This first collection of Baldwin's non-fiction essays centers on issues of race and identity in both the United States and Europe, where he had emigrated in 1948. The ten texts were previously printed in periodicals such as Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review, and ranged from critical discussions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Carmen Jones, to Harlem, Jim Crow segregation, and being Black in France. In 1998, the Modern Library named it to its list of the top 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century, placing it at number 19.
