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First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1957
Published in Penguin Books 1990
Reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000
Reprinted with a new Introduction in Penguin Classics 2001
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Copyright © James Baldwin, 1956
Introduction copyright © Caryl Phillips 2001