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“A MAGNIFICENT CLASSIC”: INVISIBLE MAN, INSCRIBED BY RALPH ELLISON

ELLISON, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, (1952). Octavo, original black and tan cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Ralph Ellison’s great American novel, inscribed on the title page, “For P. Magarick, With pleasure, Ralph Ellison.”

Winner of the 1952 National Book Award, Ellison’s extraordinary first novel is a “magnificent classic… [which] soon became a vital and permanent contribution to American literature” (Blockson 86). Ellison’s “visionary genius achieved a perfection in Invisible Man” (Harold Bloom, Genius). Book fine, only minor rubbing to spine ends of bright dust jacket. A beautiful inscribed copy of this modern classic.