Invisible Man by Ellison, 1952 (119 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. 8th Ptg. Mass-market paperback, glossy wrappers in shdes of brown with an image of man's face on front, a small photo of Ellison on back right, red color to pages' exterior edges, 503 lightly browned pages. Slight surface wear to front and spine edges. Fair.

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

paperback. Condition: Collectible-Acceptable. SIGNET 1952, nineteenth printing, heavy tanned pages. cover has some edge reading wear and tears. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times 'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves' Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual to give voice to the experience of an entire generation of black Americans. This edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man, a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestation. With an Introduction by John F. Callahan 'Brilliant' Saul Bellow. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

paperback. Condition: very GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: NONE. 20th printing SIGNET1952. Pages are clean, unmarked, and flat with a tight spine. Old price sticker at lower spine; wrinkle along length of spine; Soft and hard short creases at top and lower front corners with small pieces missing; center lower front is creased; and covers are lightly soiled from handling.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. Signet Y3814, Clean and tight some light shelf wear, no markings.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Unmarked mass market paperback. Stock images may differ. 503 pages, owner's name.

mass_market. Condition: Good. Cover differs from one shown on Amazon. It is a Signet Book Complete and Unabridged Q2722. Covers show some fading, rubbing, scuffing and edge wear. Spine shows some light creasing. Lower outside corner of book has a slight slant which may be corrected by storage. Page edges are dyed red. Page faces show some browning.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Invisible Man is 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's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky. Invisible Man is 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's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Fifteenth printing; Signet Book number Q2722; cover price 95 cents; page edges tinted yellow. One of the New York Public Library's "Books of the Century." The book is unmarked; spine slightly cocked but uncreased; age-toning to the pages; minor creasing and edgewear to the wraps; sleeve protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Dark covers with silver lettering on spine. Light brown dust jacket with picture of head and three white stripes over it, price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third printing, two thirds black cloth with top third in tan cloth with spine illustrations and white titles, 8vo, 439 pages; edge wear, very short and neatly repaired pull tear to head of spine, tiny brown spot on front board near top, previous owner's blind stamp at bottom corner of front free endpaper, light waving to bottom edge of pages in first half. An attractive early printing of this staple on recommended antiracism reading lists. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. Twenty-third printing. 503, [1] pages. Judged "The most distinguished single work" published in the last 20 years by a Book Week poll. Cover has some wear and soiling. Name in ink inside front cover. Illustration on title page. Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 - April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also 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." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death. Ellison's outsider position at Tuskegee "sharpened his satirical lens," critic Hilton Als believes: "Standing apart from the university's air of sanctimonious Negritude enabled him to write about it." In passages of Invisible Man, "he looks back with scorn and despair on the snivelling ethos that ruled at Tuskegee." He met Langston Hughes, "Harlem's unofficial diplomat" of the Depression era, and oneâ "as one of the country's celebrity black authorsâ "who could live from his writing. Hughes introduced him to the black literary establishment with Communist sympathies. Published in 1952, Invisible Man explores the theme of a person's search for their identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of the first-person narrator, an unnamed African American man, first in the Deep South and then in the New York City of the 1930s. Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity. The narrator, an unnamed black man, begins by describing his living conditions: an underground room wired with hundreds of electric lights, operated by power stolen from the city's electric grid. He reflects on the various ways in which he has experienced social invisibility during his life and begins to tell his story. Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953, making Ellison the first African-American writer to win the award. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man 19th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list, calling it "the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century", rather than a "race novel, or even a bildungsroman". Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland recognize a black existentialist vision with a "Kafka-like absurdity". According to The New York Times, Barack Obama modeled his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father on Ellison's novel. Invisible Man was published as a whole in 1952. Ellison had published a section of the book in 1947, the famous "Battle Royal" scene, which had been shown to Cyril Connolly, the editor of Horizon magazine by Frank Taylor, one of Ellison's early supporters. Critic Orville Prescott of The New York Times called the novel "the most impressive work of fiction by an American Negro which I have ever read", and felt it marked "the appearance of a richly talented writer". Novelist Saul Bellow in his review found it "a book of the very first order, a superb book.it is tragi-comic, poetic, the tone of the very strongest sort of creative intelligence". George Mayberry of The New Republic said Ellison "is a master at catching the shape, flavor and sound of the common vagaries of human character and experience". Anthony Burgess described the novel as "a masterpiece".

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. 3rd Printing stated. 439 pages. No DJ. Ex-Lib copy with usual defects. Tape repair along complete spine. Boards worn at edges. page age-toning and some seperation starting at spine. Fair condition but pages intact. 439 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely. Black cloth covered boards with silver spine titles; mild wear to edges and covers; jacket is worn with small chips and tears in edges, now in Brodart like cover; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 439 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. WRITTEN TEXT UNMARKED, SOME STAINING ON FRONT ENDPAPERS,

Condition: Gut. Broschur gebraucht, gut, 9818 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 218.

Hardcover. Preface by Charles Johnson. Small 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxiv, 572pp. Decorative endpapers. Fine/fine. Modern Library first issued their edition of Ellison's classic 1952 first novel in 1963, and this went through umpteen printings. This tight and bright copy is the first edition of "The Commemorative Edition" issued just after his death on 16 April 1994.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes an advance excerpt from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, plus two poems by Dylan Thomas and work by a range of other important contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of toning, soil and reading wear. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. clean, solid copy, previous owner's name and date, slight slant, light dust soil on page edges, dj is chipped, with foxing and moisture stains, unclipped. BP/fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. In Invisible Man the nameless narrator 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 that won the National Book Award in 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 12mo. volume in DJ. Condition: light wear & nicking to DJ; else near fine in very good DJ. 439 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. eleventh printing. early printing, but not first. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. PHOTOS OF BOOK EMAILED UPON REQUEST. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing, code B9 on copyright page. Ad for Ellison's second book, "Shadow and Act" on back of jacket, so post 1964. Very good book in like jacket with some wear and shallow chipping to spine ends and corners. Price of $12.50 in tact on jacket.