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China: Penguin Random House Sterling Publishing Edition, 2018. Book. VG+. Hardback. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardback with illustrated cover, AEG (all edges gilt) and silk ribbon marker. Only defect on the book is a small damages area on the front gilt edges. Two great books on conditions of African Americans. .

Penguin Random House, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Beautiful book, never been read, very tight binding. Slight bumping to corners and a couple small dings to gold gilt on top page edges. Together for the first time in a single volume: two classics of the modern African-American experience from Ralph Ellison. In Invisible Man the nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style that won the National Book Award in 1953. Here is Ellison, the master of American vernacular-the preacher's hyperbole and the politician's rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech-at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal… Read More

Random House, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Grey leather boards with gilt and sliver lettering and illustration on front board and spine. Clean and tight. All edges gilt. Gold silk ribbon bookmark.

Hardcover. New.

New York: Barnes & Noble Inc, 2018. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. The unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather, distinctive gilt edging, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. The gilt on the page edges is bright and Fine. 848 pages. 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" tall. Publisher images are included in the photo display.Together for the first time in a single volume: two classics of the modern African-American experience.Invisible Man is a passionate and witty tour de force of style that won the National Book Award in 1953. Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison's second novel, published posthumously in 1999. It evokes the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech to tell a powerful tale of a prodigal son in the twentieth century. We realize the availability of titles at Barnes & Noble comes and goes. We regularly offer a large… Read More