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"Very good" Knopf first edition (stated), first printing, with NO dust jacket. Dust jacket missing. There are old brown glue stains to the front pastedown where something (presumably a bookplate) has been removed. NO evidence of any lending library history. PON Edgar Q. Rooker of Greensboro, N.C. stamped in green to top of FFE, above the (now missing) bookplate. Edgar Q(uarles) Rooker of Goshen, Kentucky, died 2014. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn. in 1934 and lived in Greensboro, N.C. from 1959 through 2012. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Vanderbilt University and his Master of Music degree from Appalachian State. He played clarinet for 28 years with the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra. He taught for 35 years at Kiser Middle School and Grimsley Senior High School in Greensboro, N.C., retiring in 1991. He served as president of the North Carolina Band Directors Association and National President of the American School Band Directors Association. In 2003 he was inducted into the North Carolina Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame. Paul Winfield starred in the 1984 made-for-TV version of "Go Tell It On The Mountain" for PBS. 303 pp., reduced from $2,900.

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.