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Good first edition in a library binding. Some wear to spine ends, corners, edges. Binding square and tight. Library stamps to bottom of textblock, front pastedown and front endpaper, copyright page and rear endpaper. Library patch to rear pastedown. No dustjacket. A scarce first edition copy.

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.