Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

$5,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 175 pp. 8vo. Red cloth with black stamping. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket, with fading to spine and one little bump to top of rear hinge. Item #375840 This first collection of Baldwin's non-fiction essays centers on issues of race and identity in both the United States and Europe, where he had emigrated in 1948. The ten texts were previously printed in periodicals such as Harper's

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