Eight James Baldwin First Editions, Including Nobody Knows My Name

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(8) titles by James Baldwin, all hardcover in dust jacket, first edition, and 8vo, to include: Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (New York: The Dial Press, 1961. 241pp.); Another Country (New York: The Dial Press, 1962. 436pp.); Going to Meet the Man (New York: The Dial Press, 1965. 249pp.); Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (New York: The Dial Press, 1968. 484pp.); If Beale Street Could Talk (New York: The Dial Press, 1974. 197pp.); The Devil Finds Work (New York: The Dial Press, 1976. 122pp.); Just Above My Head (New York: The Dial Press, 1979. 597pp.); The Evidence of Things Not Seen (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. 125pp.).

Largest 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.; Smallest 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection

Mild wear to boards; some text blocks with occasional toning, light grime or staining, and pencil writing, with pages overall extremely clean; Nobody Knows My Name with light wear to gutter between final two leaves; The Devil Finds Work with stamp to half-title; several jackets with edge wear, toning, chipping, and light scuffing, with most presenting only light age and handling wear, all unclipped (one with price darkened). All books in very good or better condition, in approaching very good or better jackets.