Books

Very Good; minor rubbing/bumping to extremities; fading to spine and to top and bottom edges of covers; dark stain to foot of spine, and a few tiny ones to the front cover; foxing to front end papers; rear panel and both flaps of dust jacket, and a book review by Harvey Curtis Webster, are glued down on the rear pastedown and rear endpapers. Hinges sound, spine straight, pages clean and bright except as noted. No dust jacket. First Edition.

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.