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Lot 326
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$1,134
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Lot Description
ELLISON, Ralph (1914-1994). Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
8vo. Original two-toned cloth (some separation of beige cloth at spine, bumped corners); original pictorial dust jacket (lower edge trimmed approx. 1/2 in., short tear to head of spine, occasional creasing). Provenance: Circulating Gotham Library (library stamps to interior board and front free endpaper); Artie Shaw (bookplate to front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ELLISON'S FIRST NOVEL, for which he would win the 1952 National Book Award. From the collection of jazz musician and bandleader Artie Shaw (1910-2004).