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BALDWIN, James (1924-1987). If Beale Street Could Talk. Uncorrected Galleys. New York: The Dial Press, 1974. 
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BALDWIN, James (1924-1987). If Beale Street Could Talk. Uncorrected Galleys. New York: The Dial Press, 1974. 

8vo. Proof copy, half-titles. Original publisher's blue wrappers (vertical crease, minor small stains).

FIRST EDITION UNCORRECTED GALLEYS of Baldwin's fifth novel, a Harlem-based love story.

[With:] HARRISON, Juanita (1891-1967). My Great Wide Beautiful World. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936. 8vo. Half-titles. (Toned.) Original publisher's blue cloth gilt (slightly leaned, very minor wear to extremities); original publisher's pictorial dust jacket (toned, minor chipping at edges). FIRST EDITION of Harrison's first and only work, an autobiographical travel memoir.

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