Mark Busby

Ex-library book with library markings but very clean pages otherwise. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Discusses Ellison's "Invisible Man" and also comments on his nonfiction.

Ralph Ellison

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Minor damage to lower left corner, otherwise pristine.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem—“the scene and symbol of the Negro’s perpetual alienation in the land of his birth.” Throughout, he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of Invisible Man. On every page, Ellison reveals his idiosyncratic and often contrarian brilliance, his insistence on refuting both black and white stereotypes of what an African American writer should say or be. The result is a book that continues to instruct, delight, and occasionally outrage readers.

Shadow and Act

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Texas

Shadow and Act (1994 Edition)

Michigan

Invisible Man (J)

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See pics: a few highlighted quotes (in first 100 pgs), front cover corner was bent and ripped from the top about 1.5 in., couple of the pages had been bent

Arkansas

Invisible Man

Alabama

Invisible Manis a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.  The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot'sThe Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

Some water damage and creasing. Highlights were made in the pages.

Illinois

Very clean- slight wear on cover.
One of the most important pieces of litersture in the civil rights movement- and from 1952! 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility

North Carolina

Arizona

Tennessee

Small mark on cover but otherwise in like new condition 

Idaho

Kentucky

Kansas

Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison (1966, Paperback)

Maryland

Cover is in solid condition but has a sticker on bottom front corner. Pages are tight with some occasional light highlighting.

Missouri

Well loved book, still in fair condition; notes in the margins

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