First US edition containing two additional poems not in the 1983 British first edition.
Fine in near fine or better jacket.
Price: $200.00
"I believe, my brother, / that some are haunted by a song."
Though Baldwin wrote poetry all his life, JIMMY'S BLUES was his first published collection. In her introduction to a later edition, Nikky Finney writes: "From the beginning of his life to the very end, I believe Baldwin saw himself more poet than anything else: The way he cared about language. The way he believed language should work." His poems document the "wonderings of a curious heart devoted to exposing tyranny, love, and the perpetual historical lies of the Republic" (Finney).
Read more: Finney, Introduction to Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems.
First printing. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1986). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black paper boards, spine lettered in silver. In original unclipped ($11.95) glossy color photographic dust jacket designed by Andy Carpenter, photo portrait of Baldwin by Max Petrus to rear panel. [2], 75, [1] pages. Trace toning to jacket. Else sharp, clean, and tight overall.
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