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Published by Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1969
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Stiff Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 8vo. Pp. viii, 142. Bibliography. Bound in glossy, printed wraps. With the stamp of the Montgomery County Textbook Repository on the inside rear cover; slight bow to text block, else Fine. With contributions from Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, William M. Kelley, Kristin Hunter, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, et al.
Published by Random House, 1964
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Fine extremely bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is from the library of noted film director George Cukor with his bookplate on the front pastedown. In this collection, 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.Not only is Ellison a great writer of fiction but he truly excels as an essayist as he displays in this fine collection of some of his best work in a non-fiction role. He is one of the most cogent and articulate writers in the arena of ideas and assessments of culture and the arts.