Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

First edition, second printing. Octavo. xiv, 241 pp. Original burgundy boards backed in black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Extremities rubbed; spine ends frayed. Endpapers browned, foxed, and stained; paper remnants to front pastedown. Dust jacket rubbed and worn along folds, with chips, short tears, creasing, and rear-panel soiling. Unclipped, original $4.50 price intact. Baldwin's second essay collection examines race, identity, and the writer's place in American and European society. Includes essays on Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, and the struggle for school integration.