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Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Dial, 1963.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Dial Press, 1963. 8vo. 120 pp. First edition. Includes two famous essays: "My Dungeon Shook," and "Down at the Cross." Scattered foxing to the boards and board edges. The price-intact jacket has some creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. No fading to the spine. Top stain unfaded. SIGNED by Baldwin on the half-title page. An important book and scarce signed.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time.. The Dial Press, New York, 1963.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "Peace! James Baldwin." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Mottke Weissman. Rare and desirable. Signed copies of The Fire Next Time are uncommon. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle.all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. The Dial Press, New York, 1963.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page, the author has also written his New York City address on the facing page. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with light wear to corners, a few small spots to the topstain and tanning to the pages, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with wear to the extremities and creases to the rear flap, fading to the red print on the spine. The African-American novelist's powerful thoughts on race in the U.S. in two essays, an instant bestseller. Signed first printings are scarce.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time.. The Dial Press, New York, 1963.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: Early printing of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the dedication page, "Go the distance - in and out, and up and down. Jimmy Baldwin." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Mottke Weissman. Rare and desirable. Signed copies of The Fire Next Time are uncommon; those with such a lengthy inscription exceedingly so. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle.all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.