BALDWIN, James. Another Country. London: Michael Joseph. 1963.
8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in white to spine, typographic dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon with the printed price of 25s to front flap; pp. 416; jacket a little toned with minor wear to upper edges, c.1cm tear to upper edge of rear panel, upper edge of the text block a little spotted, slight pushing to crown and base of spine; a near fine copy.
First UK edition, first impression of Baldwin's great third novel: 'the essential American drama of the century' (Colm Toíbín).
A novel ‘born out of intense fury, rage and, above all, compassion’ (jacket), Another Country is Baldwin's third novel and one of the defining works of post-war American fiction. Opening with the unforgettable figure of Rufus Scott, a Harlem jazz drummer adrift in New York, it draws the reader into a world of love, desire, race, and violence, where the boundaries between intimacy and estrangement are continually tested. Baldwin began writing the novel in Greenwich Village in 1948, carried the manuscript with him to Paris and back to New York, and finally completed it in Istanbul in 1962.
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