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Just above my head / James Baldwin.
LIBRA PS3552.A45 J8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Homophobia.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Gospel musicians.
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Brothers--Death--Fiction.
- Brothers--Death.
- Gospel musicians--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- African Americans--Social conditions--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Homophobia--Fiction.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 597 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Dial Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- Book One. Have Mercy
- Book Two. Twelve Gates to the City
- Book Three. The Gospel Singer
- Book Four. Stepchild
- Book Five. The Gates of Hell.
- Notes:
- Design by Francesca Belanger.
- Jacket design by Jack Ribik.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".
- Banks Collection copy is "First printing".
- ISBN:
- 0803747772 :
- 0803748671
- OCLC:
- 5170168
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