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The James Baldwin Collection

James Baldwin

The James Baldwin Collection

Name: The James Baldwin Collection
SKU: BALDWIN
Price: 110 GBP
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Author: James Baldwin

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Illustrated By Lela Harris

James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and If Beale Street Could Talk – two unforgettable novels of love, identity and injustice. With Lela Harris’s evocative illustrations, each story gains new depth and atmosphere, drawing you further into Baldwin’s world.

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What’s Included

Book One: Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

Illustrated By Lela Harris

Introduced By Hilton Als

James Baldwin’s tender, fearless novel of love, shame and longing is a defining work of modern literature. With intimate charcoal portraits from Lela Harris, our Folio book captures every aching heartbeat of this timeless story.

Book Two: If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

Illustrated By Lela Harris

Introduced By Tayari Jones

James Baldwin’s powerful love story unfolds in 1970s Harlem, where injustice meets hope. Featuring evocative illustrations by Lela Harris and an introduction by Tayari Jones, this beautifully designed Folio book captures the tenderness and urgency of Baldwin’s unforgettable novel.

Editor's Notes

James Baldwin writes with a clarity that feels both intimate and unflinching. In Giovanni’s Room and If Beale Street Could Talk, he explores love in its many forms – fragile, defiant, enduring – against worlds that seek to constrain it. These are stories that stay close, revealing as much about the human heart as the society that shapes it. Paired with Lela Harris’s evocative illustrations, each novel gains a new visual depth, inviting you further into Baldwin’s quietly powerful storytelling.

THE COLLECTION

Production Details: Quarter-bound in blocked cloth with printed paper sidesPrinted slipcase

Dimensions: 8 ¾ inches x 5 ½ inches

Font: Set in Garamond with Octavian as display

Pages: 192 pages

Author: James Baldwin

Illustrated By: Lela Harris

Illustration: Frontispiece and 5 illustrations including one double-page spread

Publication Date: 03/06/2025

Printing: First Printing

Production Details: Quarter-bound in blocked cloth with printed textured paper sides
Printed slipcase

Dimensions: 8 ¾ inches × 5 ½ inches (22.2 × 14 cm)

Font: Typeset in Garamond with Octavian as display

Pages: 192

Author: James Baldwin

Illustrated By: Lela Harris

Illustration: Frontispiece and 5 black & white illustrations, including 1 double-page spread

Publication Date: 05/05/26

Printing: First Printing

About the Author

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and The Fire Next Time (1963) were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honour.

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