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First paperback edition. INSCRIBED by James Baldwin to Kurt Enoch, publisher of Signet and New American Library, on dedication page with "To Kurt, with best wishes - Jimmy Baldwin." Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Author's critically acclaimed FIRST book. A remarkable association presented to the emigre publisher who had started-up Albatross Books and was vice-president of the American branch of Penguin before founding his own highly successful imprint. ; 4 1/2" X 7".

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.