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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James (1924-1987)
- Publisher: Alfred Knopf, Everyman's Library, NY, London, 2016 c.1953
- Date published: 2016
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781101907740
ABOUT GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin s childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin s first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays a fourteen-year-old boy questioning the terms of his identity. John Grimes is the stepson of a fire-breathing and abusive Pentecostal preacher in Harlem during the Depression. The action of this short novel spans a single day in John s life, and yet manages to encompass on an epic scale his family s troubled past and his own inchoate longings for the future, set against a shining vision of a city where he both does and does not belong. Baldwin s story illuminates the racism his characters face as well as the double-edged role religion plays in their lives, both oppressive and inspirational. In prose that mingles gritty vernacular cadences with exalted biblical rhythms, Baldwin s rendering of his young protagonist s struggle to invent himself pioneered new possibilities in American language and literature.
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Go Tell It On the Mountain. [Extremely scarce stated first edition with dustjacket].
Go Tell It On the Mountain. [Extremely scarce stated first edition with dustjacket].
Baldwin, James (1924-1987).
- Format: Hardcover
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953, 1st ed., (10),303,(1) pag., original brick-red cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, lower cover with publisher's device blindstamped in lower right corner (upper and lower margin cloth partly trifle sunfaded), top edge stained blue (blue faded), complete with the original pictorial dustjacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II (price intact "$3.50 net", top edge mildly creased; spine sunfaded and small fragments lacking at top; rear flap author's photographic portrait cut out; front flap fold partly chafed).= Stated first edition. The copy was formerly owned by a reviewer who cut out the portrait from the rear-flap to illustrate his review - a portrait-clipped dustjacket remains. Copy appears unread, very solid. Baldwin's novel draws heavily on his personal experience growing up in Harlem, his family environment and the wider affects of the Great Migration from the South during the early 1930s. Go Tell It On the Mountain is considered one of the seminal texts of African-American experience during the early 20th century.
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