Ellison Ralph 1913 (3 results)

very good dust-jacket with light wear to edges, cover price $25.00, very good hardcover with black spine and green boards, light wear. ELLISON, RALPH. Juneteenth. Edited by John F. Callahan. New York: Random House, 1999, stated First Edition, with 1st printing number line starting as appropriate with a 2 ending with a 3, xxiii, 368pp., . The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man. 9780394464572 ISBN 0394464575.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued). Octavo (8vo); 456pp. Bound in full Franklin Library red leather gilt, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon marker. Very good copy; clean and unmarked. Steven H. Stroud (illustrator).

framed. Condition: very good. Signature of Ralph Ellison, best known for his novel Invisible Man. Framed with a black and white photograph of Ellision. Circa 1953. Please inquire for more information. Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus".…