A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin. NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME: MORE NOTES OF A NATIVE SON. New York: The Dial Press, 1961. First edition. Inscribed by Baldwin on the half-title: "For Larry B.: / Keep on keeping / on. / James Baldwin." Hardcover. Black cloth backed patterned paper boards; in unclipped ($4.50) photographic dust jacket. 8vo; [i-vi], vii-xiv, [1-2]-241, [1]pp.

8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection

This is Baldwin's second major collection of essays. Extremely scarce signed.

Boards with light wear to extremities, slight separation from text block, and back cover with minor mark; title page with indentations and a tiny pen mark from inscription; endpapers with expected minor toning; an extremely clean copy; jacket with light toning at folds, typical creasing, scuffing, and light edge wear but with three approx. 1-in. tears at top edge. Approaching near fine in a very good jacket.