Description
The signed limited edition of If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
Octavo, [8], 197pp, [3]. Publisher’s brown leather, title stamped in gilt. Stated “First printing” on the copyright page. Housed in the publisher’s brown slipcase, in fine condition.
From a limited edition of 250 signed copies, this being number 10.
A fine example, with the original purchase receipt from 1974.
If Beale Street Could Talk follows Tish Rivers and Fonny Hunt, a young Harlem couple whose future is threatened when Fonny is falsely accused of rape and jailed. The novel was adapted into Barry Jenkins’ Academy Award-winning 2018 film.
