TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE

by James Baldwin

$250 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: The Dial Press, 1968. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, of Baldwin's criminally underrated Weekes fourth novel about the life of a Black actor. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Item #51013 TELL ME is the story of Black actor Leo Proudhammer, his brilliant career shadowed by the condescension, alienation, and physical threats visited on him by a white America that will tolerate him

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