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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. BALDWIN. Notes of a Native Son. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955. FIRST EDITION of Baldwin's first collection of essays reflecting on race in America and Europe. 

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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. BALDWIN (1924-1987). Notes of a Native Son. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955.

8vo. Original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket small stain, light creasing, small tears at edges). 
 
FIRST EDITION of Baldwin's first collection of essays reflecting on race in America and Europe. 

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