James. The Fire Next Time.

Name: James. The Fire Next Time.
Price: 85 GBP
Availability: InStock
Author: BALDWIN

by BALDWIN

£85 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd · No longer available

BALDWIN, James. The Fire Next Time. London: Michael Joseph . 1963. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Paul Bacon with the printed price of 13s 6d to front flap; pp. 112; stain visible only to reverse of jacket spine, only very light wear to edges of jacket, slight bowing to boards, very minor off-setting to endpapers; near fine. A bright, sharp first UK edition, first printing. Written for the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, The Fire Next Time brings together the two essays, “My Dungeon Shook” and “Down at the Cross”, in a seminal collection which confronts the injustices of American racism and serves as a warning for the future. SKU: 2124675

Binding: Hardcover

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