Lot 216
Lot 216
Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison, 1952

    Price Realised USD 2,500
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    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison, 1952

    Price Realised USD 2,500
    Price Realised USD 2,500
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    Invisible Man
    Ralph Ellison, 1952
    ELLISON, Ralph (1913-1994). Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.

    A lovely copy of the first edition of the author’s first novel. Ellison won the 1953 National Book Award for Invisible Man; he was the first Black writer to do so.

    Octavo. Original cloth (light wear and tanning to tips); pictorial dust jacket (minor edge-wear, small nick at rear flap fold, a little rippling); custom box. Provenance: ownership inscription to front endpaper.
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