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James Baldwin’s stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, 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. Go Tell It On the Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change.

James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, 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. Go Tell It on the Mountain is an unsurpassed portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change.

This book is beautiful! A Signed Limited Edition (personally signed by James Baldwin) considered the most gorgeous books of Franklin Library Editions. Each volume is bound in beautiful, plush full leather, with all the Franklin fineries of 22-karat gilt lettering, page edge gilt covering, satin end page, and satin ribbon bookmark. Each book has the author's signature, which is protected with an unattached tissue insert. Unread Mint Condition except for top gilt gold discolored by dust. Franklin guarantees signature. "Notes from Editors" booklets included.

Go Tell it on The Mountain is semi-autobiographical that tells the story of John Grimes an intelligent teenager in 1930's Harlem. and his relationship to his family and his church. The novel also reveals the back stories of John's mother, and is violent, religious fanatic step-father, Gabriel Grimes. The novel focuses on the role of the Pentecostal Church in the lives of African-Americans, as a negative source of repression and moral hypocrisy and also as a positive source of inspiration and community.