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Invsible Man
by Ralph Ellison
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
About this Item: First Editions Library, Shelton Connecticut, 1990. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First edition Facsimile. "Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life" This is how the description on the front fly leaf of this ground breaking iconic American Novel. This New facsimile copy is perfect, unopened in a new dust jacket and a new ( not originally issued) slip case. The description continues: It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which has had a great deal said about it. Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of story telling and characterization, it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the "Negro's" anomalous position in American society. This beautiful copy originally published by Random House in 1952. Ellison won the national Book Award for Invisible man in 1953. According to The New York Times, President Obama modeled his memoir Dreams of my Father on Ellison's novel. Modern Library ranked Invisible man as the 19th/100 greatest English Language novels of the 20th century. Book is dust jacket and slip case are NEW and would make a fine addition to any fine library.
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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13138
- Title
- Invsible Man
- Author
- Ralph Ellison
- Format/Binding
- Bound in black cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition facsimile
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- First Editions Library
- Place of Publication
- Shelton Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1990
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fine First Edition facsimile
- Size
- 8vo
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- First Edition
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- New
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
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