Nobody Knows My Name : More Notes of a Native Son
New York: The Dial Press, 1961. Second Printing. Publisher's quarter black cloth over maroon boards, spine titled in white, in Robert Jonas dust jacket ($4.50). 241, [1, blank] pp. 8.5" x 5.75" Extremities rubbed, else near fine in very good or better, lightly rubbed and shelf worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Item #245425
NOT JUST A "NEGRO WRITER"
Moving back to the United States to take a more active role in the Civil Rights Movement marked the end of James Baldwin's youth, and it is at that moment we meet him in Nobody Knows My Name. Equally angry and contemplative, Baldwin walks readers from the American South to Paris to his childhood streets in Harlem as he explores the dehumanization of being perceived first as a Black man and then as a "Negro writer." Baldwin's essays land in the civil rights literary zeitgeist of the 1960s, where William Faulkner and Richard Wright are all liable targets. Baldwin's three essays on Wright are particularly noteworthy as Baldwin disassembles his mentor and former hero.
Briefly inscribed by Baldwin on the dedication page.
Price: $4,500.00