James Baldwin. First edition, first printing (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $12.99 on inside flap. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Author photo on rear jacket by Max Petrus. There is some chipping on spine and front cover. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: The Dial Press, 1979. No writing or markings in the book, 597 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering in cover and spine.
This is a first printing of the last novel published in Baldwin's lifetime.
It is the story of three extraordinary individuals (including Sister Julia, a "fire-baptized" child evangelist called to the ministry when she was nine), through three decades, from Harlem to Paris to Birmingham.
Baldwin's epic novel of intertwined families, spanning three decades, "is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers, a man who, now that he is older and more mature, has truly come into his own. As the most celebrated black American novelist, Baldwin has given his readers a comprehensive and comprehending examination of race and sexuality and suggested some of the ways in which the politics of color can shape the transactions of love" (Washington Post).
