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Invisible Man (INSCRIBED/SIGNED association copy) by ELLISON, Ralph, [Dorothy Peterson] - 1952

by ELLISON, Ralph, [Dorothy Peterson]

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Invisible Man (INSCRIBED/SIGNED association copy)

by ELLISON, Ralph, [Dorothy Peterson]

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New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition, sixth printing. Original cloth. Very good/good +. ELLISON, Ralph, Invisible Man (INSCRIBED/SIGNED association copy), Random House, NY, 1952. 1 blank leave (with inscription) + half-title page + TP + 1 leaf = dedication “To Ida” + 1 leaf = epigraph + half-title page + 3 - 439 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First edition, 6th printing.

The existential odyssey of a young African-American man. Arguably one of the most important novels in the canon of American Literature, it can be read through the lenses of philosophy, American literature, psychoanalysis, civil rights. Ellison, inspired by Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, imagines the alienated voice of his unnamed narrator—faced with the paradoxes of a journey to self—constrained by the limits of his society. Just as Dostoevsky’s narrator is both the product of and trapped within the intellectual structures of a Chernyshevskian world, Ellison’s narrator is both a product of and trapped within the social structures of a segregationist world. Journeying through a crucible of self discovery eventually leads him to freedom.

An important association copy, signed and inscribed to Dorothy Peterson. Dorothy Peterson (1897-1978) moved to Harlem in the 1920s to attend New York University. In 1929 she co-founded the Negro Experimental Theater. Dorothy Peterson was a Spanish teacher, aspiring actress, novelist, and arts patron actively engaged with writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance. As an active patron of the arts, she founded the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters (Yale) and the Jerome Bowers Peterson Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes (Wadleigh High School, Harlem).

The inscription on the flyleaf reads as follows: “For Dorothy Peterson, who, somehow, transcended all the foolishness of Negro pride and provincial slavery, and arrived at that exquisite balance which is simply and miraculously humanity. With sincerity, Ralph Ellison, her old admirer.”

CONDITION: Good to Very Good. Protected jacket has pieces missing at top and bottom of spine, some smudging on the front, a few scratches on the back, price-clipped. Covers have some spotting in lower right corner in front and lower left corner in back. Binding straight, text marked in pen by American novelist William Heath, author of The Children Bob Moses Led. Inscription on the flyleaf, very rare and highly collectible.

  • Bookseller Eternal Return Antiquarian Bookshop US (US)
  • Format/Binding Original cloth
  • Book Condition Used - Very good
  • Jacket Condition good +
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition, sixth printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Random House
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1952
  • Keywords American Literature, African-American Literature, existentialism, freud, philosophy, Harlem Renaissance

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