If Beale Street Could Talk

Baldwin, James

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ISBN 10: 0718111265 ISBN 13: 9780718111267

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1974

Used Condition: Good Hardcover

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In blue boards with silver type to spine. Bottom corners dinged and some pale foxing to page ends with some spots at bottom and to first and last several pages. Otherwise clean with solid binding. Jacket is unclipped (3.00 pounds) with 1/2 inch puncture to front panel near spine, light wear/nicks to spine ends and top of front flap and pale foxing to flaps. Very faint fading to spine that is barely perceptible. 1st Printing. Seller Inventory # LPB007275JB

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Title: If Beale Street Could Talk

Publisher: Michael Joseph, London

Publication Date: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Book by Baldwin, James

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Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realisitic tale... a powerful endictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.

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