Books

Full brown leather titled/decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, three raised bands. Limited edition signed by Baldwin. Trace rubbing to leather, trace flecking to gilt edges. Hint of foxing to the front endpages. Very tight and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 232 pages; Signed by Author.

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin that examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community. It also details the social and psychological pressures that lead to the moral and spiritual decline of John Grimes, a teenage boy much like Baldwin himself.