New York: The Modern Library, (1952).
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. Modern Library edition. Toledano binding 13, blue cloth with silver spine lettering. Ex-library with only markings being abrasions on front fly from pocket removal, owner name on front pastedown, thin dampstains along foredge of boards, very good in a very good dust jacket with an abrasion and sticker remnants on the spine, a few tiny creased tears, and a chip on the rear flap fold. Along with *Native Son* and *Go Tell It On the Mountain*, one of the three mid-century African-American novels that have entered the Western Canon as acknowledged classics. Winner of the National Book Award, as well as a *Burgess 99* title. Modern Library 338.
Item #615555
Ralph Ellison
birth name: Ralph Waldo Ellison
born: 3/1/1914
died: 4/16/1994