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Octavo, 439 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$3.50", has mild shelving wear, stains on the front and rear covers, moderate wear along the extremities, moderate chipping along the extremities, a large open tear along the head rear edge, several small open tears on the head edges, a small closed tear along the front head edge, long open tears along the fore edges, small open tears along the spine, a pencil "F" on the front flap, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards are half-wrapped in publisher's tan cloth, have mild shelving wear, stains on the covers, fraying along the tail edges, moderate age-toning along the edges, cloth separating along the spine, moderate wear along the spine, and moderate age-toning throughout. Textblock is lightly separating along the spine head, has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, pencil marks on the front end-page, a blue pen inscription from a previous owner on the front pastedown, mild wear along the edges, moderate age-toning along the edges, stains along the edges, and faded dark blue inking on the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Ralph Ellison was born March 1, 1913 in Oklahoma City, OK the middle of three sons. His father died in 1916 from a work-related injury, and it wouldn't be until adulthood that Ellison discovered his father's hope that he would become a poet. After working various jobs to help his family throughout his youth, Ellison saved for a trumpet with which he played alongside local musicians. Ellison would go to Tuskegee University, having hoped there to find some solidarity in an all-black university. However, the classism Ellison knew all to well back home from the whites was no less apparent amongst the mostly affluent student body and faculty of Tuskegee. This outsider perspective led Ellison to develop a deeper class-consciousness which in turn brought him into the Communist Party of America. During World War II, Ellison would become disillusioned with with the CPA, believing they had betrayed African Americans by moving away from Marxist class politics with social reform. Ellison's anger with CPA leaders would lead him to writing the "Invisible Man", a part of which released in 1947, but would not release in full until 1952. "Invisible Man" would win the 1953 U.S. National Book Award, Ellison becoming the first African American to win the award. It has become a notable work for being a work of black existentialism, Barak Obama even modeling his 1995 memoir "Dreams from My Father" on the structure of "Invisible Man" 1388795. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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