Research Catalog
Invisible man
- Title
- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
- Author
- Ellison, Ralph
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [1952]
- Kingsport, Tenn. : Manufactured in the United States of America by Kingsport Press, Inc., [1952]
- ©1952
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Book/text | Use in library | Sc Rare D 97-5 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Book/text | Use in library | Sc D 23-402 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Publishers' bindings (Binding)
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- ʺFirst printingʺ--Title page verso.
- Printer statement followed by code "A.B."; also reported in printings later than 1st.
- Illustration on title page (anonymous).
- Collation (1st printing): leaves 21x 14 cm; [unsigned: 1-14¹⁶], 224 leaves, pages [8] [1-2] 3-439 [440].
- Bound, as issued, in tan and black cloth over boards; tan cloth on upper third of covers with illustration on spine extending to covers; spine title stamped in white; pictorial dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, with portrait of Ellison as photographed by Gordon Parks on back cover.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Award, 1953
- Local note
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has two copies of the book.The Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy in Sc Rare D 97-5 is a 1st ed., 1st printing, with the original pictorial dust jacket.
- The Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division is probably also a 1st ed., 1st printing, with the original pictorial dust jacket. Imperfect: lacking the title page and verso. Inscribed on the preliminary page: "Helen K. Phillips."
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-402
- LCCN
- 52005159
- OCLC
- 18723897
- Author
- Ellison, Ralph, author.
- Title
- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [1952]
- Manufacturer
- Kingsport, Tenn. : Manufactured in the United States of America by Kingsport Press, Inc., [1952]
- Copyright Date
- ©1952
- Description
- [8], 439, [1] pages ; 22 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto"--Atlantic
- Awards
- National Book Award, 1953
- Local Note
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has two copies of the book.The Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy in Sc Rare D 97-5 is a 1st ed., 1st printing, with the original pictorial dust jacket.The Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division is probably also a 1st ed., 1st printing, with the original pictorial dust jacket. Imperfect: lacking the title page and verso. Inscribed on the preliminary page: "Helen K. Phillips."
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Place of Publication
- United States New York New York.United States Tennessee Kingsport.
- Added Author
- Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954, bookjacket designer.Random House (Firm), publisher.Kingsport Press, printer.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-402Sc Rare D 97-5