FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MAY 1995

Copyright © 1964 by James Baldwin
Copyright renewed 1992 by The James Baldwin Estate

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by The Dial Press, New York, in 1964.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baldwin, James, 1924–1987
Blues for Mister Charlie: a play / by James Baldwin. — 1st Vintage International ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-8041-4974-7
1. Racism—United States—Drama. I. Title.
PS3552.A45B5 1995
81′.54—dc20 94-23842

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Photograph by Henry Grossman

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