BALDWIN, James (1924-1987). "The Uses of the Blues." Original typescript for the article that appeared in Playboy , January 1964. Together 14 pages, 4to, with editorial corrections throughout, stapled . TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH BALDWIN'S NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS IN BLUE INK AND HOLOGRAPH NOTES ON SOME VERSOS AND BLANK MARGINS. "But Ray Charles who is a great tragic artist, makes of a genuinely religious confession, something triumphant and liberating. He tells us that he cried 'so loud he gave the blues to his neighbor next door.'" "I walked & I walked Till I wore out my shoes. I can't walk so far But yonder come the blues." [ With: ] Original galley proof sheets for "The Uses of the Blues", WITH THE FIRST PAGE SIGNED BY BALDWIN. -- "The Man Child." Photocopy of the uncorrected proof of the story that appeared in Playboy , January 1966. Together 26 pages, 4to, with a few editorial markings, stapled . -- 6-page original typed transcript of a speech about Malcolm X and race, which was given at Oxford by Baldwin, with the edited version of the speech from Oxford's magazine, ISIS , and a note from Victor Lownes to A.C. Spectorksy relating to the speech. -- Five black-and-white photographs of James Baldwin for issues of Playboy , 1962-1985. -- Related internal memos regarding Baldwin's manuscripts. "Baldwin began as a novelist ( Go Tell it on the Mountain , 1953), but became perhaps more famous for his eloquent essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963). He wrote for Playboy fairly often, with his last essay appearing shortly before his death."-- Alice K. Turner, ed. Playboy Stories (New York, 1994), p. 157.
BALDWIN, James (1924-1987). "The Uses of the Blues." Original typescript for the article that appeared in Playboy , January 1964. Together 14 pages, 4to, with editorial corrections throughout, stapled . TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH BALDWIN'S NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS IN BLUE INK AND HOLOGRAPH NOTES ON SOME VERSOS AND BLANK MARGINS. "But Ray Charles who is a great tragic artist, makes of a genuinely religious confession, something triumphant and liberating. He tells us that he cried 'so loud he gave the blues to his neighbor next door.'" "I walked & I walked Till I wore out my shoes. I can't walk so far But yonder come the blues." [ With: ] Original galley proof sheets for "The Uses of the Blues", WITH THE FIRST PAGE SIGNED BY BALDWIN. -- "The Man Child." Photocopy of the uncorrected proof of the story that appeared in Playboy , January 1966. Together 26 pages, 4to, with a few editorial markings, stapled . -- 6-page original typed transcript of a speech about Malcolm X and race, which was given at Oxford by Baldwin, with the edited version of the speech from Oxford's magazine, ISIS , and a note from Victor Lownes to A.C. Spectorksy relating to the speech. -- Five black-and-white photographs of James Baldwin for issues of Playboy , 1962-1985. -- Related internal memos regarding Baldwin's manuscripts. "Baldwin began as a novelist ( Go Tell it on the Mountain , 1953), but became perhaps more famous for his eloquent essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963). He wrote for Playboy fairly often, with his last essay appearing shortly before his death."-- Alice K. Turner, ed. Playboy Stories (New York, 1994), p. 157.
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