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Signed. Scarce. Limited edition. SIGNED by author. Original owner's bookplate on first page after ffep, Baldwin's signature is on the next page. Full brown leather with vibrant gilt lettering and embellishments. All edges gilt, raised bands on spine, silk bookmark. Light edge wear may be present due to storage. Binding tight, unread.

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.