Hardcover in blue linen cloth with spine stamped in silver. Modern Library No. 338. Endpapers with the ML design, 439 pp. Fine, fresh copy in worn and somewhat moisture-stained dust jacket with $2.45 price. The last printed opyright date is 1952 but this edition is the 1965 printing (the earlier ML edition had a price of $1.95) and the publisher's address on the rear jacket panel bears a zip code. Overall a very good copu of this important book by the first African-American author to win the National Book Award (1953). His first book, Invisible Man tells of young black man search for his own identity and place in society.
From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the half title.
Hardcover in blue linen cloth with spine stamped in silver. Modern Library No. 338. Endpapers with the ML design, 439 pp. Fine, fresh copy in worn and somewhat moisture-stained dust jacket with $2.45 price. The last printed opyright date is 1952 but this edition is the 1965 printing (the earlier ML edition had a price of $1.95) and the publisher's address on the rear jacket panel bears a zip code. Overall a very good copu of this important book by the first African-American author to win the National Book Award (1953). His first book, Invisible Man tells of young black man search for his own identity and place in society.
From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the half title.