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New York: The Dial Press, 1963. 8vo. 120 pp. First edition. Includes two famous essays: "My Dungeon Shook," and "Down at the Cross." Scattered foxing to the boards and board edges. The price-intact jacket has some creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. No fading to the spine. Top stain unfaded. SIGNED by Baldwin on the half-title page. An important book and scarce signed.

A classic of the civil rights movement, 'The Fire Next Time' is a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice which consists of two essays: 'My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,' and 'Down At The Cross — Letter from a Region of My Mind.'