James Baldwin. Blues for Mister Charlie (signed by author). Dial Press, 1964.

Price: US$1150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Blues for Mister Charlie" by James Baldwin. Dial Press, 1964 first American edition first printing. Signed by author on endpaper. Book in good condition. Original cloth, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tears with creasing to head of panels, neat tape repair to verso, extremities rubbed. Blues for Mister Charlie is James Baldwin's second play, a social commentary drama in three acts. It was first produced and published in 1964. The play is dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, his widow and children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham." It is loosely based on the Emmett Till murder that occurred in Money, Mississippi, before the Civil Rights Movement began.

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