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MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY FAN OF JAMES BALDWIN ** PLEASE READ : Mahalo for taking the time to look at our listing. We truly appreciate it. We always do our BEST to give you the most accurate description of these beautiful books. If, however, you have any SPECIFIC questions about the SIZE of the book, NUMBER of pages, TYPE of leather, SMELL or FEEL of the book, PLEASE email us through EBay’s mail system BEFORE you bid, and we will be HAPPY to give you more information. We want you to be completely happy with your purchase and keep you as our customers for years to come!** DESCRIPTION: Franklin Library’s FULL LEATHER SIGNED edition of GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by JAMES BALDWIN. THIS IS A VINTAGE HEIRLOOM FRANKLIN WITH LAVISH DEEP GILT IMPRESSIONS TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE with BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY-PRIZED EDITIONS OF THIS GREAT AMERICAN CLASSIC. ORIGINAL ONION PAPER TO PROTECT SIGNATURE IS INCLUDED AS WELL AS COLLECTOR’S BOOKLET . 🍍 NOT INCLUDED... 😃 THESE SIGNED EDITIONS ARE GETTING EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND. BALDWIN UNFORTUNATELY DIED IN 1987 AND ONLY SIGNED A LIMITED NUMBER OF THESE FRANKLIN EDITIONS. ABOUT THE BOOK: Go Tell It On The Mountain , first published in 1953, 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. Go Tell It On The Mountain was challenged as required reading in the Hudson Falls, N.Y. schools because the book has recurring themes of rape, masturbation, violence and degrading treatment of women. It had already been challenged as a ninth-grade summer reading option in Prince William County, Va. (1988) because the book was "rife with profanity and explicit sex." (Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle). CONDITION: Book is in LIKE NEW condition for its age with only a couple of faint negligible rubs to the page ends, barely worth noting, and the page after the signature page that is overly attached to the signature page which appears to have been bound that way. It does not affect the text in any way (SEE PICS FOR FURTHER DETAILS). NO ATTACHED BOOKPLATES, WRITING FROM PREVIOUS OWNER, ETC. It is a BEAUTIFUL EDITION. SHIPPING: FREE to US ADDRESSES ONLY. INTERNATIONAL $ based on location. WE SHIP PRIORITY MAIL & PACK VERY WELL. Please check out our other listings of Easton Press, Franklin Library, Limited Editions Club, First Edition Library, International Collectors Library, Heritage Press, and Folio Society editions. WE DO COMBINE SHIPPING IF YOU PURCHASE MORE THAN ONE COPY. Mahalo for looking at our listings! By bidding/purchasing this item, you are helping a very grateful family who sends you our WARMEST ALOHA & MAHALO!