Ellison Ralph Harmuth Will (9 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. Full leather binding with gilt edges, lettering and decorations. Sewn-in bookmark. A beautiful copy. Signed by Ralph Ellison. Will Harmuth (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Very good, clean, tight condition - collector's "near fine". Signed. Red leather. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. Will Harmuth (illustrator).

Hardcover/Leather. Condition: Fine. Signed/Limited Edition. 454 pp. 8vo. Red leather binding with 22-karat gold stamping, a hubbed spine, all edges gilt, silk moiré endpapers, and a sewn in ribbon marker. A tight unread copy, signed by Ellison and protected with the original tissue. Harmuth, Will (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in red leather featuring gilt decoration to boards and spine. Four raised spine bands, with sewn-in satin bookmark. slight bend to top corners, spine straight. Binding remains tight, text and illustrations remain clean and clear throughout. With beautiful moire endpapers and gilt on all edges. Signed by author on tip-in page. 'Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be. As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.' 454 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Photos available upon request. May require additional postage. This listing was made by a small independent book shop. We carefully inspect every single book we list and give accurate descriptions. If you require we will promptly send pictures of listed books upon request Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Will Harmuth (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Signed by the author. Illustrated by Will Harmuth. Limited edition, privately printed and individually signed by the author. Red leather boards with gilt leaf design on boards and spine; four raised cords on spine. Text block is gilt. Free endpapers are moire fabric with a matching silk ribbon page marker.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. As new, limited edition. Red leather with gilt decoration, gilt all around, 4 raised bands. Tissue guard over signature. Red ribbon page marker. With booklet Notes from the Editor. Will Harmuth (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcovers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Franklin Library edition. Issued signed by Ellison. Illustrated by Will Harmuth. "Special Message" by Ellison for this edition. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards, all edges gilt, satin pagemarker, tissue insert for signed leaf. Issued without dustjacket. Faint speckling to topedge gilt (not immediately apparent); otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition. Will Harmuth (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Leather Binding. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. SIGNED limited edition. Fine in red leather binding with gilt edges & satin marker ribbon, without dust jacket as issued. Author's groundbreaking FIRST book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Limited Signed Edition. "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me." In Fine, unread condition, handled only to confirm the author's signature and take photographs. A Franklin Library 1980 Limited Edition signed by Ralph Ellison. Illustrated throughout by Will Harmuth. Tissue paper protecting signature still present. Sharp cornered and without any internal markings. Bright, clean red full leather bound covers with gold gilt. Gold gilt lettering on spine intact and without any flaws. Spine is without wrinkling or sun damage. Hubbed spine, sewn in ribbon book mark, 22k gold gilded page edges for preservation, silk moire endpapers and sewn pages. Complete with the original issue 22 page "Notes from the Editor" gazette. An absolutely beautiful copy. Ellison's roman a clef was the only book he wrote that was published during his lifetime. It received some of the highest accolades at the time, including the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. Saul Bellow stated, "This book holds its own among the best novels of the century." Rumor has it that Richard Wright was the first to encourage Ellison to submit his writing, for a book review in the magazine New Masses. Partly referencing Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground," Ellison's highly praised great American novel explores, among many other topics, dispossession, alienation, violence, and racism in America. Ellison focuses his view on the tense and often violent social and economic segregation between a post-Great Depression American society and African American citizens. Ellison also worked for the Federal Writers' Project, led by the Works Progress Administration, in the 1930s, conducting interviews and research on the effects of housing segregation on Harlem residents, as well as collecting documentation of lives and stories. It was through this project that Ellison collected a folk-lore narrative from interviewee Leo Gurley about "Sweet-the-monkey," an archetypal Brer Rabbit-like trickster character who also happens to be, in a sense, an "invisible man" dealing with the paradox of invisibility as identity, all themes that Ellison's unnamed narrator experiences throughout "Invisible Man." This work, along with thousands of other artifacts, ephemera, and notes, can be found online via the Library of Congress, where Ellison's personal library can be referenced through the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Correspondence, essays, visual materials, newspapers, writing drafts, and Ellison's personal notes on his speeches, lectures, and novels can be referenced in detail. Ellison's correspondence runs the gamut of noted literary figures, including Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Langston Hughes, Shirley Jackson, and Richard Wright. Will Harmuth (illustrator). Signed by Author.…