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Limited edition signed by the author. Handsomely bound in full brown leather with gilt titling and decoration on spine and front and rear covers. Raised bands on spine. All page edges gilt, silk moire endpapers and a satin bookmark bound in. Fine. 232 pages, with illustrations by Burt Silverman.

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.