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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