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Baldwin, James.. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone.. Dial Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (484pp. ) ( 6" X 8 1/2") (Couple small edge nicks in jacket. Spine on jacket age toned while perfectly readable. ) From the library of Monty Python alumni Eric Idle with a SIGNED sheet attesting by Eric Idle laid-in. ; 6" x 8 1/2"; 484 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. Dial Press, New York, New York, 1968.
Price: US$1472.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Near FineJacket, chip to spine foot, Signed to the title page, First Edition First Print, in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
BALDWIN, James. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. Dial Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. A bit of spotting on the front pastedown and on the front board, very good in near very good dust jacket with a tanned spine and shallow loss at the crown. Signed by Baldwin on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone.. The Dial Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$2850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this major work by Baldwin. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Kathleen Peace- James Baldwin." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
James Baldwin. TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE SIGNED Signed. The Dial Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$4888.00 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Signed by James Baldwin On title page. ; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone.. The Dial Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this major work by Baldwin. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Leonard Lyons: with much affection, and respect. Jim Baldwin." The recipient, Leonard Lyons was a noted American newspaper columnist, best known for his New York Post column "The Lyons Den", which appeared 6 days a week beginning in 1934 and covered theater, movies, politics and art. Baldwin was often featured in the column, most famously in an article published shortly after Martin Luther King's assassination relating an incident in which Baldwin ran into Lyons on the street and remarked that we would "never again be able to wear the suit he wore to the King funeral." Shortly after the article was published, Baldwin received a phone call from his best friend from junior high school who despaired that "he could not afford to have suits in his closet which he didn't wear". Baldwin then arranged to meet his childhood friend in Harlem where he gifted him the suit, an experience he later wrote about and was included in his collections 'The Price of the Ticket' and 'No Name in the Street'. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional association. At the height of his theatrical career, actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. And, everywhere, there is the anguish of being black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone.. The Dial Press, Inc., New York, 1968.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: Rare uncorrected galley proof of Baldwin's fourth novel. Square quarto, original spiral bound wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Peace James Baldwin." In very good condition. Publication date annotated in ink on the front wrapper. Very uncommon signed. At the height of his theatrical career, actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. And, everywhere, there is the anguish of being black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.