20.6x14 cm (8x5½"), original orange cloth, lettered in gilt, original pictorial jacket. First Edition.
Signed on tipped in page at front. Copy of Ned Polsky, American author and sociologist. Marked with an ownership mark dated May, 1954 and owner's stamp on the title page. Baldwin's first book, an autobiographical novel recounting his early years as a preacher in Harlem.