Almost 55 years ago author James Baldwin (1924-1987) went head to head with poet and activist Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024) in a televised conversation, discussing Black identity and gender roles, amongst other subjects. A transcript of the conversation (with revisions by both authors) was published under the title A Dialogue in America in the same year, followed by a British edition two years later. The print-run must have been exceedingly low; A Dialogue is one of the scarcest titles in James Baldwin's oeuvre. It was never reprinted. In the photograph, the book is paired with The Price of a Ticket, a collection of Baldwin's non-fiction that was published in 1985.