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Go tell it on the mountain
- Title
- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin.
- Author
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Published by the New American Library, 1954.
- ©1953.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - In use until 2024-05-10 - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare C 23-1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- New American Library, publisher.
- Description
- 191 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- Fourteen-year-old John struggles against the environmental influences of Harlem.
- A semi-autobiographical novel about John Grimes, a young man living in Harlem in the 1930s. His relationship with his strict preacher stepfather, Gabriel, who moved from the South during the Great Migration to escape his past, and the role of the Pentecostal Church in the lives of African Americans, are central themes of the novel.
- Series Statement
- Signet book, 1138
- Subjects
- African American families
- Racism
- New York (State) > New York
- Bildungsromans
- Short stories
- Fiction
- pulp fiction
- United States
- New York (State) > New York > Harlem
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
- African Americans > Religion > Fiction
- African American families > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- African Americans > Social conditions > Fiction
- Racism > United States > Fiction
- African American men > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- pulp fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Note
- Ahead of cover title: Sin and salvation in Harlem.
- A Signet book; complete and unabridged." -- cover
- "This is a reprint of the original hard cover edition published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc." -- preliminary page.
- "First printing, October 1954." -- t.p. verso.
- Includes adversisement for other books from the Signet book series or imprint.
- Binding (note)
- Copy in MARB Sc Rare C 23-1, bound in publishers original illustrated paper wrappers .
- Call Number
- Sc Rare C 23-1
- OCLC
- 6606395
- Author
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.
- Title
- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin.
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Published by the New American Library, 1954.
- Copyright Date
- ©1953.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Signet book, 1138
- Binding
- Copy in MARB Sc Rare C 23-1, bound in publishers original illustrated paper wrappers . NN
- Place of Publication
- United States New York (State) New York.
- Added Author
- New American Library, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare C 23-1