Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

Baldwin, James

Published by The Dial Press, 1961

About this Item

Book is Near Fine. 241pp. Light red and black patterned boards, silver lettering on black spine. Creasing to the spine edges, a touch of toning, otherwise imternally clean, unmarked pages . Aged colored spines. Unclipped pictorial jacket has original $4.50 price on the front flap. Creases on the upper and lower spine edges, otherwise a clean, bright jacket. Extremely rare today. Even less so, as a signed First edition. The "provenance" of this book is extremely interesting and decisively unique. As with paintings, the provenance of a book could be an important part of the interest of the book itself. On the first free endpaper of Baldwin s book, the previous owner wrote her name as "Audre Hanneman" and dated it 8/61. This date is one month after Hemingway s suicide. There is little doubt that Hanneman was reading Baldwin s book at that time and most likely in the sahdow of the tragic event. There are many studies that examine the relationship of Baldwin s literary work and life and Hemingway s. Audre Hanneman is well-known as "Hemingway s bibliographer" with her unofficial most extensive two-volume bibliography of Hemingway published by Prnceton University. At that time she was living in New York and was engaged in the literary scene. Her name on the flyleaf, definitely makes it a one-of-a-kind first edition of this work. The book was signed (not inscribed) for Dr. Ángel Capellán, author of Hemingway and the Hispanic World (1985).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
• Publisher: The Dial Press
• Publication Date: 1961
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
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