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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin [RARE SECOND EDITION] 1966 / The Dial Press

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

SECOND EDITION / THIRD PRINTING [1966] THE DIAL PRESS 

Third printing of this incredibly rare second edition, published by The Dial Press in 1963. 

Gorgeous refurbished ex-library copy!    Hardcover with dust jacket in absolutely stunning condition.

Dust jacket is stunning.  Small catalog sticker on spine and a tape remainder mark to underside of front panel.  Otherwise, Like New!  Unclipped front panel with $4.50 cover price.  

Book itself is equally gorgeous.  Cover is excellent: clean, sharp, unworn;  gilded frontispiece looks brand new.  Hint of fading / bumping to edges to spine.   

Inside, pages are like new and look untouched, un-aged and unread.   One extremely tiny stain to top of text block, just barely visible on tips of first few pages [see last photo]

Library stamps to top and vertical edges of exterior text block and a small handwritten code to copyright page.   Overall, a stunning and immaculately preserved first edition of this rare and important work. 

Go Tell It On The Mountain is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.