BALDWIN, James. If Beale Street Could Talk. London: Michael Joseph. 1974.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Les Lawrence with the printed price of £3.00 to front flap; pp. 229, [1], [2 (blank)]; very slight sunning to jacket spine, a little shelf wear, some spotting to top edge of textblock, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, spot to pp.127-30, but overall fresh and bright; near fine.
First UK edition, first impression.
Set in Harlem in the early 1970s, If Beale Street Could Talk tells the story of two young people in love. It is the first Baldwin novel to exclusively focus on a black love story, and his only novel to be narrated by a woman.
SKU: 2124562