TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE

by James Baldwin

$2,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: The Dial Press, 1968. Uncorrected galleys of the first edition of Baldwin's criminally underrated Weekes novel about the life of a Black actor. Very good. Item #51920 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 only so far as he entertains, and which exacts

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