James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni's Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain - Paperbackby James Baldwin (Author) A box set of James Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood. With lyrical precision and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen year old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity