VERY HARD TO FIND THIS FIRST EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET IN THIS CONDITION! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**. Week poll of 200 prominent authors, critics, and editors as the most distinguished. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. Winner of the National Book Award for fiction. $2.45 price present and bright on inside flap. It is bright and clean with chipping on top and bottom with an amazing graphic on the cover. Book is NEAR FINE - binding strong and tight with only slightest of shelf wear, gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. The battle royal is a brutal rite of passage that thrusts the nave narrator into a violent, chaotic world where the rules that govern a society do not apply (there are 'no rounds and no bells at three-minute. The book is bound in blue cloth type 11 binding with Kent end papers and a great pictorial dust jacket. This quote from Ralph Ellisons review of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdals book An American Dilemma (which explores the roots of prejudice and racism in the U.S.) anticipates the premise of Invisible Man: Racism is a devastating force, possessing the power to render black Americans virtually invisible. Ellison describes people as dolls or puppets elsewhere in the book, an image that emphasizes powerlessness. The first printing in 1963 has a price of $1.95 on the dust jacket, this copy has a price of $2.45 on the inside flap indicating a 1965 printing. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION, though not stated in this title by the Modern Library it was first printed by the Modern Library in 1963. RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
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