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First UK edition. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A bookseller's ticket to the front paste-down and a tiny bump to the top left hand corner of the rear board otherwise a near fine copy in like dustwrapper priced 12s 6d nett to the inside flap (as called for). The complete dustwrapper is slightly darkened to the spine with very minor rubbing/rubbing at the tip, with a short, closed tear to the top edge of the front panel and with very minor foxing spots to the back panel. NO INSCRIPTIONS. A very nice copy indeed. # 39 on the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time Magazine also included this novel on its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. A semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. NB: the First UK edition is considerably scarcer than its US counterpart (published by Knopf a few months earlier). Great period artwork by Rudland. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.

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.