Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] DELL / 1969

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1969] DELL BOOKS

First Dell Printing in very good condition.  

Some shelf / edge wear to an otherwise very good cover; foxing to undersides of cover and endpapers.   

Tightly bound with minimal wear to contents.  The rest of the pages read good as new with some tanning. 

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.