[BALDWIN (James)]. - Lot 211

[BALDWIN (James)]. A collection of 29 books from the library of American writer James Baldwin (1924–1987), a leading figure in the civil rights movement and an African American activist. All copies, with the exception of one (by William Bloom), are inscribed to him. This collection offers, in particular, an interesting overview of African American literature from the 1970s and 1980s. Books in French: - BERNHEIM (Nicole). *Voyage en Amérique noire*. Paris: Stock, 1986. — BRYCE-ECHENIQUE (Alfredo). *La Vie exagérée de Martin Romaña*, translated from Spanish by Jean-Marie Saint-Lu. n.p.: Luneau Ascot, 1983. — CORDIER (Robert). “Hattie’s Song” in *Babylone si froide* (play). n.p.: Cééditions, 1981. — DARY (Bernard). A Whack with a Whip. Paris: Fayard, 1971. — FABRE (Geneviève). Black Theater in the United States. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982. — SOUDAN (François). Mandela the Indomitable. No place: Jeune Afrique Livres, 1987. Books in English: - ALLEN (James and Geneva). *God Bless This Child*. A novel. New York: Exposition Press, 1975. — *Aquarius* 13/14. London: Eddie S. Linden, 1982. — BARRETT (Lindsay). *Song for Mumu*. A novel. London: Longmans, 1967. — BLOOM (William). *A Canterbury Tale*. A game for children. London: Michael Joseph, 1971. Uncorrected proof copy, accompanied by a signed letter from the publisher addressed to Baldwin. — BREYTENBACH (Breyten). *A Season in Paradise*. London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1985. — CHASE-RIBOUD (Barbara). *Valide*. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986. — CLARK (Lloyd). *Poems & Drawings*. n.p.: Lloyd Clark, 1973. — FORMAN (James). *The Making of Black Revolutionaries*. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. — GIL-ALBERT (Juan). *Variations on an Unextinguishable Theme*. Bilingual edition. Barcelona: Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, 1982. English-Spanish bilingual edition. — GOLD (Herbert). *Swiftie the Magician*. A novel. New York, St. Louis, etc.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. — HARDING (Vincent). *The Other American Revolution*. Los Angeles, Atlanta: Center for Afro-American Studies, 1980. — JAMES (C.L.R.). *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In*. London, New York: Allison & Busby, 1985. — KNIGHTON, STANLEY. *The Children Are Crying: Congregationalism Among Black People. New York, Philadelphia: The Pilgrim Press, 1979. — LOGAN (Thaddeus). Hey Cabbie. Baltimore: Logan Enterprises Publishing Company, 1983. — MAJOR (Clarence). Symptoms & Madness. Poems. New York: Corinth Books, 1971. — MANAKA (Matsemela). Egoli City of Gold. A Soyikwa Theatre Production. Johannesburg: A Soyikwa-Ravan production, [1986?]. — MARABLE (Manning). Blackwater: Historical Studies in Race, Class Consciousness, and Revolution. Dayton: Black Praxis Press, 1981. — MOODY (Anne). Mr. Death. Four Stories. Foreword by John Donovan. New York…: Harper & Row, 1975. — REDMOND (Eugene). In a Time of Rain & Deire. New Love Poems. East St. Louis: Black River Writers, 1973. — REDMOND (Eugene). River of Bones and Flesh and Blood. Poems. East St. Louis: Black River Writers, 1971. — WOLFF (Geoffrey). *Bad Debts*. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. — YADE (Richard). *Savoy*. South Hadley: The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1982. [Exhibition catalog]. Book in German: - BONI (François). Gespräche mit James Baldwin, Carl J. Burckhardt, Mary McCarthy… Vienna, Munich, Zurich, 1972. Signs of wear.