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Books, 1955-2010
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Books from Ralph Ellison's personal library. |
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Arranged alphabetically primary by title. |
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| A/IV/4 |
12 million black voices: a folk history of the Negro in the United States. By Richard Wright. Text by Richard Wright. Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. New York : Viking Press, 1941.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Inscribed by Ralph Ellison: "date of publication 11/3/41" on front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Dick (Wright?).
Parts of dust jacket inserted.
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| Deck E |
20 best plays of the modern American theatre. Edited with an introduction by John Gassner. New York : Crown Publishers, 1939.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by his wife Fanny on front free endpaper: "A birthday present from Fanny 1984."
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
31 letters and 13 dreams. By Richard Hugo. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/5 |
77 dream songs. By John Berryman. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison.
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| B/V/4 |
ABC of reading. By Ezra Pound. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [1951?].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
About fiction: Reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers, and other abuses. By Wright Morris. New York : Harper & Row, 1975.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/3 |
About people. By William Steig. New York : Duel, Sloan, and Pearce, [c1939].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/3 |
About the house. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1965].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/VII/4 |
Abraham Lincoln goes to New York. By Andrew A. Freeman. New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., [c1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/4 |
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858. By Albert J. Beveridge. In two volumes. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1928].
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First impression.
Hardcover.
Vol. 1.
Price mark on pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Absalom, Absalom! Introduction by Harvey Breit. By William Faulkner. New York : The Modern Library / Random House, 1951.
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1st Modern Library Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper and title page.
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| Deck E |
The academic revolution. By Christopher Jencks and David Riesman. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968.
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| B/I/2 |
The achievement of T.S. Eliot: an essay on the nature of poetry. By F.O. Matthiessen. New York : Oxford University Press, 1947.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Marks on back front free endpaper.
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| B/I/3 |
The achievement of William Faulkner. By Michael Millgate. New York : Random House, [c1966].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/II/1 |
Across the river and into the trees. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
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[1st edition, first printing].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/IV/4 |
Across the Wide Missouri. By Bernard DeVoto. Illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller. With an account of the discovery of the Miller Collection
by Mae Reed Porter. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947.
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Hardcover.
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| B/V/5 |
Act and the Actor: making the self. By Harold Rosenberg. New York : World Publishing, [1972].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Cigar invoice inserted.
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| Deck E |
Act and the actor: Making the self. By Harold Rosenberg. New York : The World Publishing Company, 1973.
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An Nal Book.
Some underlining throughout.
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| Deck E |
Ada or Ardor: A family chronicle in five parts. By Vladimir Nabokov. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Adlai Stevenson. By Lillian Ross. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Adventures in the Alaskan skin trade. By John Hawkes. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1985.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/5 |
The adventures of Augie March. By Saul Bellow. New York : Viking Press, 1953.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Notes on pastedown.
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| B/III/1 |
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. With illustrations from the 1885 first edition by Edward Winsor Kemble. By Mark Twain. Franklin Center,PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/1 |
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain. With an introduction by T.S. Eliot. London : Cresset Press, 1950.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes on front pastedown.
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| A/V/5 |
The adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe. With the color woodcuts of Pierre Falke. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/1 |
The adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Mark Twain. With the illustrations of T.W. Williams. Franklin Center,PA : Franklin Library, [c1983].
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Hardcover.
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| A/IV/3 |
Adversity and grace: studies in recent American literature. Edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Essays in Divinity Series, Vol.40.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/4 |
Aeschylus and Athens: a study in the social origins of drama. By George Thomson. London : Lawrence and Wishart, [1946].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/V/4 |
Aesop's fables. By Aesop. From translation of Thomas James and George Tyler Townsend. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| A/V/1 |
Africa dances. By Geoffrey Gorer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [c.1935].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / --.
Signature of Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
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| A/V/1 |
The Africa reader. Edited and with introduction by Wilfred Cartey and Martin Kilson. New York : Random House, [c.1970].
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In two volumes: Vol. 1: Colonial Africa; Vol. 2: Independent Africa.
1st Vintage edition.
Paperback.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
African images. By Harold Scheub. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Webster Division, 1972.
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| Deck E |
African silences. By Peter Matthiessen. New York : Random House, 1991.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/3 |
African-American writers: profiles of their lives and works from the 1700's to the present. Edited by Valerie Smith. New York : MacMillan, [c1993].
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1st Collier edition.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/4 |
Afro-American anthropology: contemporary perspectives. Edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and John F. Szwed. Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz. New York : Free Press, [c1970].
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| A/VI/4 |
Afro-American folktales: stories from black traditions in the new world. Selected and edited by Roger D. Abrahams. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1985].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Advertisement inserted.
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| A/II/1 |
Afro-American literature: fiction. Edited by William Adams, Peter Conn, and Barry Slepian. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1970].
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Hardcover.
Includes: Ralph Ellison "King of the Bingo Game" and "Flying Home".
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| A/VI/5 |
Afro-American literature: the reconstruction of instruction. Edited by Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1979.
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The Afro-American novel and its traditions. By Bernard W. Bell. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, "For Ralph Ellison with my deepest respect and appreciation for his contribution
to our common tradition."
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| A/II/3 |
After alienation. By Marcus Klein. Cleveland, NY : World Publishing Co., 1964.
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1st edition.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
After such pleasures. By Dorothy Parker. New York : The Viking Press, 1933.
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Ex-Library copy.
Annotated throughout.
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| B/IV/5 |
Afternoon of a pawnbroker and other poems. By Kenneth Fearing. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1943].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Against the American grain: Essays on the effects of mass culture. By Dwight Macdonald. New York : Random House,1962.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/3 |
The age of anxiety: a baroque eclogue. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1947].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The age of discontinuity: Guidelines to our changing society. By Peter F. Druker. New York : Harper & Row, 1968.
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| B/VII/1 |
An age of fiction: the French novel from Gide to Camus. By Germaine Bree and Margaret Guiton. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The age of happy problems. By Herbert Gold. New York : The Dial Press, 1962.
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| Deck E |
The age of overkill: A preface to world politics. By Max Lerner. London : William Heinemann Ltd., 1964.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The age of reform from Bryan to F.D.R. By Richard Hofstadter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ah, sweet dancer. By W.B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock. Edited by Roger McHugh. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1971.
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1st American Edition.
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| B/V/3 |
The air conditioned nightmare. By Henry Miller. New York : New Directions, [c1945].
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Hardcover.
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| A/IV/3 |
Albert Camus. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. London : Bowes and Bowes, [1962].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author.
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| B/III/3 |
Alexander Pushkin, 1799-1837: his life and literary heritage. By Samuel H. Cross and Ernest J. Simmons. New York : American-Russian Institute, [1943].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/2 |
Alienated Man: Literature of estrangement, dissent, and revolt. Edited by Eva Taube. New York : Hayden Book Co., [c1972].
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Paperback.
Includes: "Out of the hospital and under the bar"by Ralph Ellison.
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| Deck E |
All about H. Hatterr. By G.V. Desani. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., 1951.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/4 |
All god's dangers: the life of Nate Shaw. By Theodore Rosengarten. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Envelope with notes by Ralph Ellison inserted.
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| Deck E |
All our kin: Strategies for survival in a Black community. By Carol B. Stack. New York : Harper & Row, 1974.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/1 |
All shot up. By Chester Himes. New York : Avon Books, [c1960].
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Paperback.
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| B/III/2 |
All the king's men. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1946].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Bookshop stamp on front free end paper.
Notes within.
Second copy.
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| A/IV/4 |
All the king's men. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1946].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Fragments of wrapper inserted.
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| B/IV/4 |
All the strange hours: the excavation of a life. By Loren Eisley. Illustrations by Emmanuel Haller. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1975].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Ally betrayed: The uncensored story of Tito and Mihailovich. By David Martin. Foreword by Rebecca West. New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1946.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the author on the front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Along this way: The autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. By James Weldon Johnson. New York : The Viking Press, 1933.
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Inscribed, "To Fanny M. McConnell-with my appreciation for her valuable help in the preparation of the manuscript for the
printer" by the author on front free endpaper.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The ambassadors. By Henry James. With introductions by Martin W. Sampson and John C. Gerber. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1948].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Holiday bookshop label on back pastedown.
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| A/III/2 |
The ambassadors. By Henry James. With the author's preface and the text of the New York edition. Edited by F.W. Dupee. New York : Rinehart
and Co., [c1960].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| B/V/3 |
America as a civilization: life and thought in the United States today. By Max Lerner. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The American character. By Denis W. Brogan. New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
The American commonwealth; In two volumes; Volume II. By James Bryce. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1911.
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Laid-in newspaper clippings and other items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/1 |
American counterpoint: slavery and racism in the North-South dialogue. By Comer Vann Woodward. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
American daughter. By Era Bell Thompson. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 1946.
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Advance Reading Copy.
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| B/VI/3 |
The American democrat, or, hints on the social and civic relations of the United States of America. By James Fenimore Cooper. With an introduction by H.L Mencken, and an introductory note by Robert E. Spiller. New York
: Vintage Books, 1956.
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Paperback, rebound in hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. Volume 2. By Gunnar Myrdal. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1944.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/2 |
An American dilemma: the Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal, with assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose. In two volumes. New York : Harper and Brothers,
[c.1944].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature on the front free end paper.
Notes within.
Vol.
2 with the signature "Fanny Buford" on the front paste down.
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| Deck E |
American dreams: Lost and found. By Studs Terkel. New York : Pantheon Books, 1980.
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The American earthquake: A documentary of the Jazz Age, the great Depression, and the New Deal. By Edmund Wilson. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958.
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Doubleday Anchor Books.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The American essays. By Henry James. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The American Heritage history of the American people. By Bernard A. Weisberger. Edited by Michael Harwood of American Heritage. Pictorial commentary by Kristi Witker. New
York : American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1971.
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Inscribed, "For you, Ralph-Hoping you will enjoy some of the qualities I have enjoyed in this warm-hearted work" on front
free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
American humor: A study of the National character. By Constance Rourke. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Underlined and annotated throughout.
Laid-in handwritten notes removed and housed separately; each slip is numbered: slip 1 was found between pages 6 and 7;
slip 2 was found between pages 8 and 9; slip 3 was found between pages 90 and 91; slip 4 was found between pages 98 and 99;
slip 5 was found between pages 102 and 103; slip 6 was found between pages 110 and 111; slip 7 was found between pages 122
and 123; slip 8 was found between pages 142 and 143; slip 9 was found between pages 156 and 157; slip 10 was found between
pages 202 and 203; slip 11 was found between 210 and 211; and slip 12 was found between pages 272 and 273. These notes are
all filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/5 |
American hunger. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Row, [1977].
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Uncorrected proof.
Softbound.
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| A/IV/5 |
American hunger. By Richard Wright. Afterword by Michael Fabre. New York : Harper and Row, [c1977].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VIII/1 |
American journal: poems. By Robert Hayden. New York : Liveright, [c1982].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Publisher's letter addressed to Mrs. May Sullivan inserted.
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| B/VI/3 |
American law: the third century, the law bicentennial volume. Edited by Bernard Schwartz. South Hackensack, NJ : Fred B. Rothman and Co., 1976.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/1 |
An American miscellany: articles and stories, now first collected by Albert Mordell. By Lafcardio Hearn. In two volumes. New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1925.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The American monomyth. By Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1977.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/4 |
American Negro folktales: collected and with introduction and notes by Richard M. Dorson. Greenwich, CT : Fawcett Publications; A Fawcett Premier Book, [c1967].
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1st printing, 1967.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
An American notebook. By Philip Hamburger. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/4 |
The American novel and its tradition. By Richard V. Chase. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1957.
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Paperback.
Cover missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
American novel from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. Edited by Wallace Stegner. New York : Basic Books, Inc., 1965.
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| B/II/3 |
The American novels and stories. By Henry James. Edited with an introduction by F.O. Matthiessen. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The American people: A study in national character. By Geoffrey Gorer. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1948.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
American popular song: The great innovators, 1900-1950. By Alec Wilder. Edited with an introduction by James T. Maher. New York : Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
American Puritans: Their prose and poetry. Edited by Perry Miller. Cover and typography by Edward Gorey. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956.
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1st Edition.
Doubleday Anchor Books.
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| Deck E |
The American religion: The emergence of the post-Christian nation. By Harold Bloom. Advance uncorrected reader's proof. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/3 |
American Renaissance: art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman. By F.O. Matthiessen. New York : Oxford University Press, [1954].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/1 |
An American retrospective: Writing from Harper's magazine, 1850-1984. Edited by Ann Marie Cunningham. New York : Harper's Magazine Foundation, [c1984].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Letter from publisher inserted.
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| A/II/1 |
The American review: the magazine of new writing. No. 16 February, 1973. Edited by Theodore Solotaroff. New York : Bantam, 1973.
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Includes "Cadillac Flambe" by Ralph Ellison.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
American satire in prose and verse. Edited by Henry C. Carlisle, Jr. New York : Random House, 1962.
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1st Printing.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The American scene: together with three essays from "Portraits of Places." By Henry James. Edited with an introduction by W.H. Auden. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Price marks.
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| B/II/1 |
The American scene. By Henry James. London : Chapman and Howe, 1907.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/IV/2 |
American short novels. By R.P. Blackmur. New York : Thomas W. Crowell Co., [c1960].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/VII/3 |
American stuff: an anthology of prose and verse by members of the Federal Writers' Project with sixteen prints by the Federal
Art Project. New York : Viking Press, 1937.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
American talk: Where our words came from. By J.L. Dillard. New York : Random House, 1976.
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1st Edition.
Rear endpaper has handwriting on it.
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| Deck E |
Americana. By Don DeLillo. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Americans are alone in the world. By Luigi Barzini, Jr. New York : Random House, 1953.
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1st Printing.
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| B/IV/2 |
The Americans: the colonial experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [1958].
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9th printing.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The Americans: The democratic experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, 1973.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/2 |
The Americans: the democratic experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [c1973].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Note from Boorstin inserted.
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| B/IV/2 |
The Americans: the national experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [1967].
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4th printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/3 |
Amerika erzahlt: seventeen short stories. Edited by Heinz Politzer. Frankfurt : Fischer Buchere, [1958].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Amistad 1: Writings on Black history and culture. Edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris. New York : Vintage Books, 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Amistad 2: Writings on Black history and culture. Edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris. New York : Vintage Books, 1971.
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1st Edition.
Paperback.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The Amistad affair. By Christopher Martin. London : Abelard-Schuman, 1970.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/4 |
Amor and psyche: the psychic development of the feminine: a commentary on the take by Apuleius. By Erich Neuman. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1956].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The anatomy of American popular culture, 1840-1861. By Carl Bode. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1959.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
Anatomy of criticism: four essays. By Northrup Frye. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1957.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
An anatomy of literature. By Edward M. Maisel. New York : Standert and Hall, 1938.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/5 |
Ancient art and ritual. By Jane Ellen Harrison. London : Oxford University Press, [1948].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ancient medieval and modern Christianity: The evolution of a religion. By Charles Guignebert. New Hyde Park, NY : University Books, 1961.
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| Deck E |
And it came to pass-not to stay. By R. Buckminster Fuller. New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/3 |
And keep your powder dry: an anthropologist looks at America. By Margaret Mead. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1942.
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Hardcover.
Notes and marks within.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| Deck E |
And so man dreams. By Bruce Kaduk. Palo Alto, CA : Morning Star Books, 1991.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
Laid-in photocopy of letter to Ralph Ellison from the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to
this book.
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| B/II/2 |
And then we heard the thunder. By Joan Oliver Killens. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Beet recipe inserted.
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| B/I/4 |
André Gide: his life and his work. By Lyon Pierre-Quint. Translated from the French for the first time by Dorothy M. Richardson. New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
1934.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/4 |
Andre Gide. By Albert J. Guerard. Introduction by Thomas Mann. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1963.
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Paperback.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
Andre Malraux and the metamorphosis of death. By Thomas Jefferson Kline. New York : Columbia University Press, 1973.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/4 |
Andre Malraux and the tragic imagination. By W.M. Frohock. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [c1952].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Andre Malraux: The conquest of dread. By Gerda Blumenthal. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins Press, 1960.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/4 |
Andre Malraux: the Indochina adventure. By Walter G. Langlois. New York : Frederick Praeger, [1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/II/4 |
Andre Malraux: tragic humanist. By Charles D. Blend. Ohio : Ohio State University Press, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/4 |
André Malraux. By Dennis Boak. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/4 |
Andre Malraux. By Geoffrey H. Hartman. New York : Hillary House Publishers, 1960.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Marks within.
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| A/VI/4 |
Andromache: tragedy in five acts, 1667. By Jean Racine. Translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Drawings by Igor Tulipanov. San Diego; New York : Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich, [c1982].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/IV/5 |
Angel arms. By Kenneth Fearing. New York : Collard McCann, 1929.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Anger at innocence. By William Gardner Smith. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1950.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/3 |
Anger, and beyond: the Negro writers in the United States. Edited with an introduction by Herbert Hill. New York : Harper and Row, [c1966].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/VII/1 |
Angle of ascent: new and selected poems by Robert Hayden. By Robert Hayden. New York : Liveright, [c1975].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by the author on title page.
Program for LC readings in Afro-American Poetry, Feb 23, 1976, inserted.
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| Deck E |
An angler's entomology. By J.R. Harris. 103 color photographs by T.O. Ruttledge. London : Collins, 1952.
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Inscribed, "Dear Ralph- Not that I think you need this- from Bill in London. 5-11-61" on title page.
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| Deck E |
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Revised translation edited by Dorothy Whitelock with David C. Douglas and Susie I. Tucker. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers
University Press, 1961.
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| Deck E |
Ankunft null uhr zwolf. By Paul Schalluck. Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer Verlag, 1953.
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Inscribed in German to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/5 |
Anna Karenina, a novel. By Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. With the paintings of James Tissot. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin
Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Anna Livia Plurabelle. By James Joyce. Preface by Padraic Colum. New York : Crosby Gaige, 1928.
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This is number 347 of 800 copies signed by the author.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/3 |
Annotations to Finnegan's Wake. By Roland McHugh. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [c1980].
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Notes inserted.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Another country. By James Baldwin. New York : Dial Press, 1962.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/5 |
An anthology of American Negro literature. Edited, with an introduction by V.F. Calverton. New York : Modern Library, [c1929].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/1 |
Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry. Edited by Dudley Fitts. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1942].
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Hardcover.
Advance copy.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Anti-memoirs. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Terrence Kilmartin. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [c1968].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Blank postcard with Chinese vase inserted.
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| Deck E |
The Antichrist. By Friedrich W. Nietzsche. Translated from the German by H.L. Mencken. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
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| B/IV/1 |
Antony and Cleopatra. By William Shakespeare. Edited by M.R. Ridley. Arden Edition. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1956].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/1 |
Antony and Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Kenneth Muir. [S.l.] : University Press, [1957].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The anxiety of influence: A theory of poetry. By Harold Bloom. New York : Oxford University Press, 1973.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Apollinaire: Poet among the painters. By Francis Steegmuller. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963.
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1st Printing.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Apologies to the Iroquois. By Edmund Wilson. With a study of the Mohawks in high steel by Joseph Mitchell. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay,
1960.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/5 |
Appointment in Samara. By John O'Hara. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [c1934].
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5th printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on back free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Arabian Nights. Volume VII. Translated by John Payne. London : [s.n.], 1901.
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Printed For Subscribers Only.
Bassorah Edition, Number 55 out of 500 copies.
Signed by Fanny McConnell on front endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Arabs today. By Joel Carmichael. Garden City, NY : Anchor Books, 1977.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/5 |
Archetypal patterns in poetry: psychological studies of imagination. By Maud Bodkin. London : Oxford University Press, 1934.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/3 |
The architecture of humanism: a study in the history of taste. By Geoffrey Scott. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1954.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Are you running with me, Jesus?: Prayers by Malcolm Boyd. By Malcolm Boyd. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publishers removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/5 |
Argufying essays on literature and culture. By William Empson. Edited with an introduction by John Haffenden. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1987].
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1st edition.
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| Deck E |
An armada of thirty whales. By Daniel G. Hoffman. With a foreword by W.H. Auden. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1954.
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Signed by Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/VI/5 |
The Armchair Esquire. Edited by Arnold Gingrich and L. Rust Hills. Introduction by Granville Hicks. New York : G.P. Putman's Sons, [c1958].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Note from Hills inserted.
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| A/III/5 |
The armed vision: a study in the methods of modern literary criticism. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Marks and notes within, especially on p.335.
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| Deck E |
Army brat: A memoir. By William Jay Smith. New York : Persea Books, 1980.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/1 |
Army life in a black regiment. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. With a new introduction by Howard N. Meyer. New York : Collier Books, [c1962].
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1st Collier Books edition.
Paperback.
Presentation copy from Howard N.
Meyer.
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| Deck E |
Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes: Letters (1925-1967). Selected and edited by Charles H. Nichols. New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979.
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Uncorrected Advance Proofs.
Review of the book it taped onto the front free endpaper.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Aroused by books. By Anatole Broyard. New York : Random House, 1974.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Arrival and Departure. By Arthur Koestler. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1943.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Art and artist: Creative urge and personality development. By Otto Rank. Preface by Ludwig Lewisohn. Translated from the German by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf, 1932.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Art and society: A Marxist analysis. By George V. Plekhanov. Translated from the Russian by Paul S. Leitner, Alfred Goldstein and C.H. Crout. Introduction
by Granville Hicks. New York : Critics Group, 1936.
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| Deck E |
Art and Society. By Sidney Finkelstein. New York : International Publishers, 1947.
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| B/V/3 |
Art and technics. By Lewis Mumford. New York : Columbia University Press, 1952.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/3 |
Art in human affairs: an introduction to the psychology of art. By Norman Charles Meier. 1st edition. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1942].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The art of ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw. By Robert T. Petersson. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st American Edition.
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| Deck E |
Art of Jazz: Essays on the nature and development of Jazz. Edited by Martin T. Williams. New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The art of make-up for the stage, the screen, and social use. By Helena Chalmers. New York : D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1938.
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Inscription reads, "To the members of the Negro Peoples Theatre-In appreciation of the pleasure your play has given me. Keep
up the good work!" by Leonard Albert on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/2 |
The art of T.S. Eliot. By Helen Gardner. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., [1915].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/VI/1 |
The art of the American folk preacher. By Bruce A. Rosenberg. New York : Oxford University Press, 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Art of the essay. Edited, with introductions, notes and exercise questions by Leslie Fiedler. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1958.
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Light annotation and underlining throughout.
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| B/II/2 |
The art of the novel: critical prefaces with an introduction by Richard P. Blackmur. By Henry James. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1937].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Notes and marks within.
Note inserted.
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| B/II/2 |
The art of the novel: critical prefaces. By Henry James. With an introduction by Richard B. Blackmur. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Notes and marks within.
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| B/II/1 |
The art of travel: scenes and journeys in American, England, France, and Italy, from the travel writings of Henry James. By Henry James. Edited and with an introduction by Norton Dauwen Zabel. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1958.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Art on the edge: Creators and situations. By Harold Rosenberg. New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
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1st Printing.
Review Copy.
Laid-in letter and note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Arthur Miller and Company. Edited by Christopher Bigsby. London : Methuen Drama, 1990.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/2 |
Artists on art: poet-poesque derivation of a terministic cluster. By Kenneth Burke. Chicago : University of Chicago, 1977.
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Reprinted from Critical Inquiry, Vol. 4 No. 2, Winter 1977.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison from Kenneth Burke: "Here's hoping you will concede my command of commonplaces!"
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| Deck E |
The arts in modern American civilization. By John A. Kouwenhoven. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1948.
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Laid-in slips of paper removed and housed separately; each slip is numbered on the back; slip 1 was found between pages 40-41,
slip 2 was found between pages 74-75, slip 3 was found between pages 84-85, and slip 4 was found between pages 186-187; these
are all filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The ascent of man. By J. Bronowski. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
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1st American Edition.
Laid-in article about the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Asian drama: An inquiry into the poverty of nations. Volume I. By Gunnar Myrdal. New York : Pantheon / Random House, 1968.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Asian drama: An inquiry into the poverty of nations. Volume II. By Gunnar Myrdal. New York : Pantheon / Random House, 1968.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Asian drama: An inquiry into the poverty of nations. Volume III. By Gunnar Myrdal. New York : Pantheon / Random House, 1968.
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1st Printing.
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| A/III/4 |
Ask your mama. By Langston Hughes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Aspects of the novel. By E.M. Forster. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/3 |
The Aspern papers and the Europeans. By Henry James. Introduction by Joseph M.G. Bottkol. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1950].
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Hardcover.
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| B/II/3 |
The Aspern Papers. By Henry James. With a preface by the author. Stockholm and London : Continental Book Co., [c1947].
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Paperback, rebound.
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| A/IV/1 |
The assistant. By Bernard Malamud. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [1957].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Bookplate on front free end paper.
"Prosa E Poesia di un seminatore" by Azeglio Righi inserted.
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| B/VI/2 |
The astonished muse. By Reuel Denney. With an introduction by David Riesman and an afterward by the author. New York : Grosset and Dunlap,
[1964].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
At random: The reminiscences of Bennett Cerf. By Bennett Cerf. New York : Random House, 1977.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
At swim two birds. By Flann O'Brien. New York : Pantheon Books Inc., 1939.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
At war as children. By Kit Reed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Attacks of taste. Compiled and edited by Evelyn B. Byrne and Otto M. Penzler. New York : Gotham Book Mart and Gallery Inc., 1971.
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1st Edition.
Number 34 of 500 copies.
Signed by both editors and is labeled as Ralph Ellison's copy.
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| A/VII/3 |
Attitudes towards history. By Kenneth Burke. In two volumes. New York : New Republic, 1937.
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First edition.
Hardcover.
Vol. 1: Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
Envelope from Random House inserted.
Vol. 2: Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
References to p.36 and 46 on front endpaper, to p.170 on back endpaper.
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| A/I/2 |
Au dela du regard (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Michael Chrestien. Paris : Editions Denoel, [c1954].
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Paperback.
Signed by Albert Murray on the front and back covers.
Uncut pages.
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| A/I/4 |
Au dela du regard (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Michael Chrestien. Paris : Editions Denoel, [c1954].
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Paperback.
Uncut pages.
Second copy.
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| B/VII/1 |
Aucassin and Nicolette and other medieval romances and legends. Translated from the French by Eugene Mason. London : J.M. Dent and Sons, [1931].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Austin and Mabel: The Amherst affair and love letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd. By Polly Longsworth. Preface by Richard B. Sewall. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/5 |
Authors on film. Edited by Harry M Geduld. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/1 |
The autobiography of a runaway slave, Esteban Montejo. By Esteban Montejo. Edited by Miguel Barnet. Translated from Spanish by Jocasta Innes. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1968].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/1 |
The autobiography of an ex-colored man. By James Weldon Johnson. Garden City, NY : Garden City Publishing, 1927.
|
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Second edition, first non-anonymous edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Price mark, Inscribed by author to Fanny M. McConnell.(Fanny Ellison).
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| A/V/5 |
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. By Benjamin Franklin. Edited by John Bigelow. Illustrated by J.G. Chapman. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [
c1981].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams. By William Carlos Williams. New York : Random House, 1951.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/2 |
Autumn sleep (1983) and roots in winter (1984): uncollected haiku. By Lee J. Richmond. New York : Pearl Paul, 1984.
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Limited edition of 500 copies.
1st printing.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on first page.
Signed by the author.
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| Deck E |
Axel's Castle: A study in the imaginative literature of 1870 to 1930. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
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| Deck E |
Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington, Jr. and his times. By Jimmie Lewis Franklin. Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, 1989.
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Inscribed to the Ellisons by the author on the title page.
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| Deck E |
Bailey's café. By Gloria Naylor. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
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Advance Reading Copy.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/3 |
Bakhtin: essays and dialogues on his works. Edited by Gary Saul Morson. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1986].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The ballad of Reading Gaol. By Oscar Wilde. Conceptions by John Vassos New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1928.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison and dated September 8, 1936 on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The ballad of the sad café: The novels and stories of Carson McCullers. By Carson McCullers. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
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| A/III/2 |
The bamboo bed. By William Eastlake. New York : Simon and Schuster, [c1969].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/III/1 |
Band of angels. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1955].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Fanny Ellison's flight insurance inserted.
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| B/V/1 |
Barbarous knowledge: myth in the poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir. By Daniel G. Hoffman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1967.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/V/4 |
Barchester Towers. By Anthony Trollope. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The Baron in the trees. By Italo Calvino. New York : Random House, 1959.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Basic concepts of elementary mathematics. By William L. Schaaf. Second Edition. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967.
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| B/III/3 |
The basic writings of Sigmund Freud. By Sigmund Freud. Translated and edited with an introduction by A.A. Brill. New York : Modern Library, [c1938].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks on back pastedown.
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| Deck E |
The basic writings of Trotsky. By Leon Trotsky. Edited and introduced by Irving Howe. New York : Random House, 1963.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/2 |
The bat-poet. By Randall Jarrell. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York : Macmillan, [1964].
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Paperback, not bound.
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| B/VI/1 |
Battersea rise. By E.M. Forster. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1955].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Bookshop Card of inserted.
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| Deck E |
Battle report: Selected poems. By Harvey Shapiro. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/5 |
Battle-pieces. By Herman Melville. Edited with introduction and notes by Henning Cohen. New York : Thomas Yoseloff, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Bech: A book. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Bech: A book. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
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| Deck E |
The bedbug and selected poetry. By Vladimir Mayakovsky. Edited and introduced by Patricia Blake. Translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey. New York
: Meridian Books, Inc., 1960.
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Paperback.
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| A/V/2 |
Been in the storm so long: the aftermath of slavery. By Leon F. Litwack. 1st edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [c.1979].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/II/2 |
The beer can by the highway. By Joan A. Kouwenhoven. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., [c1961].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Shopping list inserted.
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| A/II/2 |
The beer can by the highway. By Joan A. Kouwenhoven. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, [c1988].
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Hardcover.
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| B/VII/5 |
The beetle leg. By John Hawkes. New York : New Directions, [c1951].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/1 |
Beetlecreek: a novel. By William Demby. New York : Rinehart and Co., Inc., [c1950].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
The author's photo used on dust jacket of book inserted.
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| Deck E |
Before Columbus: Links between the old world and ancient America. By Cyrus H. Gordon. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971.
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Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Before you go. By Jerome Weidman. New York : Random House, 1960.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/4 |
Behold, the city. By Russel Warren Howe. London : Secker and Warburg, 1953.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| B/V/4 |
Being and nothingness: an essay on phenomenological ontology. By Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated and with an introduction by Hazel E. Barnes. New York : Philosophical Library, c1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Beloved infidel: The education of a woman. By Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1958.
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| B/V/4 |
Bernard Shaw: an unauthorized biography based on first-hand information with a postscript by Mr. Shaw. By Frank Harris. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1931.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Newspaper article about Shaw's political views inserted.
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| B/V/4 |
Bernard Shaw. By Eric Russell Bentley. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1947].
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Hardcover.
(The Makers of Modern Literature).
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| B/VII/4 |
The best American short stories, 1944. Edited by Martha Foley. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The best of simple. By Langston Hughes. Illustrated by Bernhard Nast. New York : Hill and Wang, 1961.
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1st American Century Series Edition.
Inscribed, "Especially for Ralph and Fanny, mes amis de mucho tiempo-con amore, Langston ne Simple. Harlem, U.S.A., October
4, 1961" by the author on the inside cover.
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| B/I/2 |
The best short stories of Dostoevsky. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated with an introduction by David Magarshack. New York : Modern Library, [1955].
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1st Modern Library edition.
LCCN 55-10655.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper and half-title.
Scrap paper inserted.
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| Deck E |
The best short stories of Dostoevsky. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated with an introduction by David Magarshack. New York : The Modern Library, 1955?.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper and half-title page.
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| B/VII/4 |
The best short stories, 1941. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Bestiary. Compiled by Richard Wilbur. Illustrated by Alexander Calder. New York : Pantheon Books, 1993.
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Inscribed on front free endpaper, "for Ralph, who has beaten me to 80 by several years, with old affection from Dick and
Charlee. 1 March 1994."
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| A/VI/4 |
Beyond civil rights: a new day of equality. By Hubert H. Humphrey. New York : Random House, [c1968].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Holiday card from ambassador John S.
Hayes inserted.
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| A/V/1 |
The Bible designed to be read as living literature. New York : Simon and Schuster, [c.1936].
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4th printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
Envelope addressed to Ralph Ellison inserted.
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| Deck E |
Bible Section: The good news according to Mark. Translated by Reynolds Price. Designed and typeset by George Mattingly. 1st Printing. [W. Coast Print Center] : [s.n.],
1976.
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Edition limited to 300 copies.
Done specifically for his friends at Christmas, 1976.
Printed at The West Coast Print Center.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny "with affectionate good hopes at Christmas" by the translator.
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| B/II/1 |
Bibliography of the works of Ernest Hemingway. By Louis Henry Cohn. New York : Random House, 1931.
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Limited edition of 300 numbered copies, copy No.68.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Big as life. By E.L. Doctorow. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1966.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/2 |
The big change: America transforms itself, 1900-1950. By Frederick Lewis Allen. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1952].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/5 |
The big gate. By Elmer Stuckey. Introduction by Stephen E. Henderson. Chicago : Precedent Publishing, 1976.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/1 |
The big gold dream. By Chester Himes. New York : Avon Books, [c1960].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Big man. By Jay Neugeboren. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The big sea: An autobiography. By Langston Hughes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
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1st Edition.
Inscription on front free endpaper states, "Inscribed especially for Ralph and Rosie Ellison in friendship and regard-Sincerely,
Langston Hughes."
Laid-in dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/3 |
The big sky. By A.B. Guthrie, Jr. New York : Pocket Books, [c1947].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Article inserted.
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| Deck E |
Biography: Varieties and parallels. Edited by Dwight Durling and William Watt. New York : Dryden Press, 1941.
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| Deck E |
Bird at my window. By Rosa Guy. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The bird's nest. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The black & white stories. By Erskine Caldwell. Selected by Ray McIver. Atlanta, GA : Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1984.
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1st Printing.
Inscribed "For Ralph Ellison from a fried" by the author.
Laid-in photocopied note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Black American writer. Volume 1: Fiction. Edited by C.W.E. Bigsby. Baltimore, MD : Penguin Books Inc., 1969.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front endpaper by the author of one of the essays in the book.
Laid-in note from this author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/4 |
Black bolshevik: autobiography of an Afro-American Communist. By Harry Haywood. Chicago : Liberator Press, [c1978].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Price marks.
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| B/II/2 |
Black Boogaloo: [notes on black liberation]. By Larry Neal. San Francisco : Journal of Black Poetry Press, [c1969].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/IV/5 |
Black boy: a record of childhood and youth. By Richard Wright. Cleveland; New York : World Publishing Co., [c1945].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free end paper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Black boy: a record of childhood and youth. By Richard Wright. Cleveland; New York : World Publishing Co., [1945].
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10th edition, August 1945.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to (indecipherable) from Fanny and Ralph.
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| A/VI/4 |
Black champion: the life and times of Jack Johnson. By Finis Farr. London : Macmillan and Co., 1964.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Price marks on front pastedown.
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| A/VII/1 |
The black Christ and other poems. By Countee Cullen. With decorations by Charles Cullen. New York : Harper and Brothers, 1929.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Extensive inscription to Fanny by a friend on title page, dated 1929.
Part of dust jacket glued to spine and cover.
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| Deck E |
Black culture and Black consciousness: Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom. By Lawrence W. Levine. New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Black empire by George S. Schuyler writing as Samuel I. Brooks. By George Samuel Schuyler. Edited and with an afterword by Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen. Foreword by John A. Williams.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1991.
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Bound Proof Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/1 |
The black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925. By Herbert G. Gutman. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1976].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
Black fiction. By Roger Rosenblatt. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1974.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Black heritage of Oklahoma. By Gene Aldrich. Edmond, OK : Thompson Book and Supply Co., 1973.
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Laid-in photocopied documents removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Black history in Oklahoma: A resource book. Edited by Kaye M. Teall. Oklahoma : Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1971.
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Two copies in Ellison's collection.
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| A/II/3 |
Black is the color of the cosmos: essays on African-American literature and culture, 1942-1981. By Charles T. Davis. New York : Garland, 1982.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/3 |
The black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo revolution. By C.L.R. James. New York : Dial Press, [n.d.].
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Hardcover.
Marked "very scarce" on the front pastedown.
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| A/VI/3 |
Black majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina: from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. By Peter H. Wood. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/3 |
Black Manhattan. By James Weldon Johnson. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
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[1st edition].
Hardcover.
Unidentified signature on pastedown.
Notes/dedication on title page.
Parts of dust jacket glued to fly leaves.
Marks within.
Notes on back flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Black Manhattan. By James Weldon Johnson. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
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Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed to Fanny on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/1 |
Black metropolis: a study of Negro life in a northern city. By St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton. With an introduction by Richard Wright. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1945].
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1st edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Cayton, with Cayton's address mark on half-title.
Some pages marked on front free end paper.
Damaged dust jacket inserted.
Errata list glued to front free end paper.
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| A/VI/2 |
The black military experience in the American West. Edited by John M. Carroll. New York : Liveright, [c1973].
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Paperback.
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| A/VI/2 |
Black Moses: the story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. By Edmund David Cronon. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Black Naturalism: A philosophy and technique used by Black American novelists in the first half of the twentieth century. By Raymond Thomas Hunter. Ann Arbor, [MI] : University Microfilms International, 1978.
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Inscribed on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/2 |
Black odyssey: the Afro-American ordeal in slavery. By Nathan Irving Huggins. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1977].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/V/1 |
Black odyssey: the story of the Negro in America. By Roi Ottley. New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1948.
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Hardcover.
Signature on the front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Black power: A record of reactions in a land of pathos. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1954.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
The black prince and other stories. By Shirley Ann Grau. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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1st Edition.
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| A/V/I |
Black redemption: churchmen speak for the Garvey movement. By Randall K. Burkett. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [c.1978].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Letter from the Temple University inserted.
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| A/VI/2 |
Black Review. No.1. New York : William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1971.
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| A/VII/2 |
Black separatism: a bibliography. By Betty Lanier Jenkins and Susan Phillis. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| Deck E |
Black sun: The brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby. By Geoffrey Wolff. New York : Random House, 1976.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VI/1 |
The black worker: a documentary history from colonial times to the present. Vol. 1: the black worker to 1869. Edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1978.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/5 |
Blacking up: the minstrel show in nineteenth-century America. By Robert C. Toll. New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper. Marks within.
Paper with notes inserted.
Review copy.
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| A/III/3 |
The blackness of blackness: a critique of the "Sign" and "Signifying Monkey". By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983.
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Reprint from Critical Inquiry, Vol.9, No.4., June 1983.
Softbound.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Skip Gates.
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| Deck E |
Blood and milk poems. By Ruth Whitman. New York : Clarke & Way, Inc., 1963.
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Laid-in slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Blood meridian, or, the evening redness in the West. By Cormac McCarthy. New York : Random House, 1985.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VII/1 |
Blood on the forge: a novel. By William Attaway. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran, and Co., Inc., 1941.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket torn at head and tail of spine.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Bloodline. By Ernest J. Gaines. New York : The Dial Press, 1968.
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Uncorrected Proofs.
Laid-in sheet removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Bloodline. By Ernest J. Gaines. New York : The Dial Press, 1968.
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1st Printing.
Inscribed, "For Ralph Ellison and Mrs. Ellison.
Mr. Ellison: I think the greatest thing that can happen to a young writer is meeting an older writer he admires. I told
Al Murray I agree with you 99% of the time. The only reason I won't agree with you 100% is that I won't agree with myself
that much. My respect, my love," by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
The Bloodworth orphans. By Leon Forrest. New York : Random House, 1977.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed, "For my dear friend Ralph-upon this stellar occasion of the ELLISON FESTIVAL-with many thanks for your inspirational
example as novelist-scholar-statesman and challenging custodian of our willful democracy...Marianne and I send our best wishes
to you and Fanny for many years of rich fulfillment. LOVE, Leon" on title page.
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| Deck E |
Bloody Williamson: A chapter in American lawlessness. By Paul M. Angle. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st Edition.
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| B/I/2 |
Blow up a storm. By Garson Kanin. New York : Random House, [c1959].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Blue harpsichord. By David Keith. New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949.
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| Deck E |
Blues fell this morning: The meaning of the Blues. By Paul Oliver. Foreword by Richard Wright. London : Cassell & Company Ltd., 1960.
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| B/I/1 |
Blues from the Delta. By William Ferris. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press;Doubleday, 1978.
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1st edition.
Review copy.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Blues Line: A collection of Blues lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters. Compiled by Eric Sackheim. Illustrations by Jonathan Shahn. New York : Schirmer Books [A Division of Macmillan Publishing
Co.], 1975.
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1st Paperback Printing.
Laid-in letter from The American Scholar removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Boju. By Sunita. Delhi, India : Kamel Vir Parkashan, 1945.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Boken om jazz. Medarbeidere: Kare Sandegren (et al.). Stavanger : Dreyer, 1954.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The bold saboteurs. By Chandler Brossard. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953.
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1st Printing.
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| A/II/1 |
Bondage, freedom, and beyond: the prose of black Americans. Edited by Edison Gayle. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1971.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/II/1 |
Bondage, freedom, and beyond: the prose of black Americans. Edited by Edison Gayle. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1971.
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Paperback.
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| B/VII/3 |
Bone thoughts. By George Starbuck. Foreword by Dudley Fitts. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1960.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The Book of Daniel. By E.L. Doctorow. New York : Random House, 1971.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| A/VI/4 |
The book of Negro folklore. Edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. New York : Dodd, Mead and Co., 1958.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front pastedown.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Book of the month: Sixty years of books in American life. Edited by Al Silverman. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1986.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from The Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/2 |
The Booker T. Washington Papers. By Booker T. Washington. Vol. 1.: The autobiographical writings. Edited by Lois R. Harlan. Urbana, IL : University of
Illinois Press, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/2 |
The Booker T. Washington Papers. By Booker T. Washington. Vol. 2: 1860-1889. Edited by Lois R. Harlan. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/2 |
The Booker T. Washington Papers. By Booker T. Washington. Vol. 2.: 1895-1898. Edited by Lois R. Harlan. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/2 |
Booker T. Washington: the making of a black leader, 1856-1901. By Louis R. Harlan. New York : Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Uncorrected advance proof.
A part of the book inserted.
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| A/VI/2 |
Booker T. By Louis R. Harlan. Washington: the making of a black leader, 1856-1901. New York : Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Boston adventure. By Jean Stafford. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944.
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Advance Proof.
A Wartime Book.
Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Boston and return: Impressions and memories of two cities, two continents, and many people. By Gladys Brooks. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The Bostonians. By Henry James. Introduction by Philip Rahv. New York : Dial Press, [c1945].
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5th printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| Deck E |
Bottom fishing: A novella and other stories. By W.F. Lucas. Knoxville, TN : The Carpetbag Press, 1974.
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Inscribed, "Best wishes to Ralph Ellison, someone I have admired for Aeons" by the author on inside cover.
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| Deck E |
The bottom of the harbor. By Joseph Mitchell. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Bound away. By John Lucas. Winona, MN : Winona Printing Company, 1985.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on back by the author.
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| B/IV/3 |
Bourbon street black: the New Orleans black jazzman. By Jack K. Buerkle and Danny Barker. New York : Oxford University Press, 1973.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/V/2 |
Bourgeoisie noire. By Edward Franklin Frazier. Paris : Librairie Plon, [1955].
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Paperback.
Erata, advertisement, pencil notes inserted. Uncut pages.
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| A/V/2 |
Bourgeoisie noire. By Edward Franklin Frazier. Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press, [1957].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Boy gravely: A novel of the fury of genius. By Iris Dornfeld. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The brave bulls. By Tom Lea. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1949.
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| A/V/3 |
Brave men. By Ernie Pyle. New York : Henry Holt Co., [c1944].
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(Armed Services Editions).
Paperback.
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| B/VII/4 |
Bread and a stone. By Alvah Bessie. New York : Modern Age Books, [c1941].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Note on back free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Break word with the world: A commemorative collection of poems/anecdotes/commentaries presented at State Community College,
East Saint Louis Illinois. March 29, 1991. Coordinated/ Forward by Eugene B. Redmond. Introduction by Ishmael Reed. East St. Louis, IL : printed by Parks Publishing
Corporation, 1991.
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Inscribed, "6/18/92 For Ralph Ellison: Longevity in life and power to your writing hand. Admiringly, Eugene B. Redmond" on
first page.
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| A/VI/1 |
Breakthrough on the color front. By Lee Nichols. New York : Random House, [c1954].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Bred in the bone. By Thomas Nelson Page. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.
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| Deck E |
The bride of the innisfallen and other stories. By Eudora Welty. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The bridge at Andau. By James A. Michener. New York : Random House, 1957.
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1st Printing.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Briefings: Poems small and easy. By A.R. Ammons. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1971.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/1 |
The brigadier and the golf widow. By John Cheever. New York : Harper and Row, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from John and another unidentified person on front free end paper.
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| A/IV/5 |
Bright and morning star. By Richard Wright. New York : International Publishers, [c1938].
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Paperback.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. By Alfred Kazin. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Bright web in the darkness. By Alexander Saxton. New York : St Martin's Press, 1958.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Bright winter. By Virginia Mishnun-Hardman. New York : New York University Press, 1977.
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Inscribed to Fanny on title page.
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| Deck E |
Bringing it all back home. By Ronald Friedland. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1971.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/3 |
The broken center: studies in the theological horizon of modern literature. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/III/1 |
The Bronc people. By William Eastlake. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1958].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
The address of Eastlake and review inserted.
|
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| B/III/2 |
Brother to dragons: a tale in verse and voices. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1953].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/V/5 |
The Brothers Grimm. One hundred fairy tales. Translated by Margaret Hunt. With the illustrations of Walther Crane. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The brothers Karamazov: a novel in four parts with epilogue. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. San Francisco : North Point
Press, 1990.
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Hardcover.
Reprint of an article from Guardian about Frances Steloff, founder of the Gotham Book Mart inserted.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The brothers Karamazov. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated and with an introduction by David Magarshack. In two volumes. Baltimore : Penguin Books,
[c1958].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on fly leaves of both volumes.
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| Deck E |
The brothers Karamazov. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett. New York : The Modern Library, 1929.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/2 |
Brothers to dragons: a tale in verse and voices. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1979].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| Deck E |
A browser's dictionary: A compendium of curious expressions & intriguing facts. By John Ciardi. New York : Harper & Row, 1980.
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1st Edition.
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| B/III/2 |
Bucky: a guided tour of Buckminster Fuller. By Hugh Kenner. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1973.
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Hardcover / dust jacket. Card with scribbles inserted.
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| A/VII/2 |
The buffalo soldiers: a narrative of Negro cavalry in the west. By William H. Leckie. Normen : University of Oklahoma Press, [c1967].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Building the Barricade. By Anna Swirszczynska. Translated by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. Photographs by Jerzy Tomaszewski. Krakow
: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1979.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Bullet Park. By John Cheever. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Bulwark of the republic: A biography of the Constitution. By Burton J. Hendrick. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1937.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in item from Book-of-the-Month Club removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/V/1 |
The burden of race: a documentary history of Negro-white relations in America. By Gilbert Osofsky. New York : Harper and Row, [1967].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Shopping list inserted.
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| A/VII/5 |
The burden of Southern history. By Comer Vann Woodward. New York : Random House, [c1960].
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First Vintage Edition, 1961.
Paperback.
Pencil note on the fly leaf.
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| Deck E |
Burma surgeon. By Gordon S. Seagrave. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1943.
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A Wartime Book.
Autographed by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The burning cactus. By Stephen Spender. New York : Random House, 1936.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/3 |
Business civilization in decline. By Robert Heilbroner. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1976].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| A/IV/1 |
But man proud man: being volume one of the novel "Logos". By Charles Jeremiah Moravec. New York : Mosaic Press, 1965.
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Letter to Ellison from Moravec inserted.
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| Deck E |
But not to keep. By Roger Kahn. New York : Harper & Row, 1979.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/4 |
By love possessed. By James Gould Cozzens. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1957].
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1st edition.
LCCN 57-10062.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Shopping list inserted.
|
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| B/I/4 |
By-line: Ernest Hemingway: selected articles and dispatches of four decades. By Ernest Hemingway. Edited by William White. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1967].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| B/III/5 |
[Caesar's Wars. Latin textbook]. By Julius Caesar. [S.l] : [s.n.], n.d.
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No cover, no title page.
Numerous notes within.
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| B/II/5 |
Call me Ishmael: a study of Melville. By Charles Olson. New York : Grove, [c1947].
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/V/5 |
The call of the wild. By Jack London. The Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
A call to assembly: The autobiography of a musical storyteller. By Willie Ruff. New York : The Viking Press, 1991.
|
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Unrevised and Unpublished Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/2 |
Callaloo: a black South journal of arts and letters. No.18 Vol.6, No. 2. Spring/Summer 1983. Lexington, KY. : University of Kentucky, 1983.
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| B/IV/3 |
Camus. By Germaine Bree. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1961.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy. Photo of Camus inserted.
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| A/VI/1 |
Can the south solve the Negro problem? By Carl Schurz. [S.l.] : [s.n.], [1903].
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| B/II/1 |
Candide. By Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York : Random House, 1975.
|
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Hardcover.
Slip case.
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| B/II/1 |
Candide. By Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York : Random House, 1975.
|
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Hardcover.
Slip case.
Second copy.
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| A/VII/1 |
Cane. By Jean Toomer. With a forword by Walter Frank. New York : Boni and Liveright, [c1923].
|
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Second printing 1927.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Part of dust jacket glued to spine.
Bookplate: the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature.
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| Deck E |
Cannery row. By John Steinbeck. New York : The Viking Press, 1945.
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| Deck E |
The Canterbury tales. By Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. New York : The Modern Library,
1929.
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Laid-in typed page of verse in Old English removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Captain grownup. By Kit Reed. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VI/5 |
Caroling dusk: an anthology of verse by Negro poets. Edited by Countee Cullen. Decorations by Aaron Douglas. New York : Harper and Brothers, 1927.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Fanny McConnell on front free endpaper.
Sumner High School book plate on inside front cover.
Impression bearing "Sumner High School Library" on title page and dedication page.
Sheet of play manuscript with written character designations inserted.
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| Deck E |
Carpenter of the sun: Poems. By Nancy Willard. New York : Liveright, 1974.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/III/1 |
The carpenter years. By Arthur Cohen. New York : New American Library, [c1967].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
The carpenter years. By Arthur A. Cohen. New York : The New American Library, Inc., 1967.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in newspaper clipping of review of this book removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The case history of Comrade V. By James Park Sloan. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972.
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Advance Copy.
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| B/II/2 |
A casebook on Henry James's The turn of the screw. Edited by Gerald Willen. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [1916].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Notes within.
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| Deck E |
Cassell's Latin dictionary. Revised by J.R.V. Merchant, M.A. and Joseph F. Charles, B.A. Philadelphia : David McKay, 1907.
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| A/III/3 |
Cast the first stone. By Chester Himes. New York : Coward-McCann, [c1952].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Complimentary copy.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Review for the book inserted.
|
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| Deck E |
Castle keep. By William Eastlake. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1965.
|
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1st Printing.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
The catacombs. By William Demby. New York : Pantheon Books, 1965.
|
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1st Printing.
Inscribed, "to Ralph Ellison with much admiration" by the author on front free endpaper.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
Catalogo generale delle edizioni einaudi. Edited by Giulio Einaudi. Torino, Italy : [s.n.], 1956.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card from editor removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Catastrophe and imagination: An interpretation of the recent English and American novel. By John McCormick. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1957.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Some underlining in pencil throughout.
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| Deck E |
The Catherine wheel. By Jean Stafford. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
|
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/5 |
Cause for wonder. By Wright Morris. New York : Atheneum, 1963.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/5 |
Cavalier and Yankee: the old South and American national character. By William R. Taylor. Garden City, New York : Doubleday and Co., [ 1963].
|
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Paperback.
Signature of Ralph Ellison oN: the front fly leaf.
Notes on the inside of back cover.
Shopping list and business card inserted.
|
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| A/VII/5 |
Cavalier and Yankee: the old South and American national character. By William R. Taylor. New York : Harper and Row, [c1961].
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Paperback.
Signature of Ralph Ellison on the front fly leaf.
|
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| B/III/4 |
The cave. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1959].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| Deck E |
Celebration. By Harvey Swados. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1975.
|
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Advance Reading Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/4 |
The centennial history of the Civil War. By Bruce Catton. Vol.2: Terrible swift sword. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1963.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| A/VII/4 |
The centennial history of the Civil War. By Bruce Catton. Vol. 1: The coming fury. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., [c1961].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature of Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VII/4 |
The centennial history of the Civil War. By Bruce Catton. Vol. 3: Never call retreat. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1965.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signature of Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The center of the stage. By Gerald Sykes. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952.
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|
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1968.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1976.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1991.
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/3 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1974.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1985.
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1988.
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1990.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1966.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1980.
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/III/3 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1971.
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1965.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1986.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1979.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1989.
|
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1977.
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/III/3 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1970.
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/III/5 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1993.
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/III/3 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1973.
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/III/3 |
Century association yearbook. New York : Century Association, 1975.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper of the 1975 volume.
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| Deck E |
The century handbook of writing. By Garland Greever and Easley S. Jones. New York : The Century Co., 1924.
|
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Annotated throughout.
Laid-in prescription slip from a doctor removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/1 |
A century of anecdote from 1716-1816. By John Timbs. London : Frederick Warne and Co., [n.d.].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Stamped American Library in Rome.
|
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| B/IV/2 |
A century of hero worship: a study of the idea of heroism in Carlyle and Nietzsche with notes on other hero-worshipers of
modern times. By Eric Russell Bentley. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1955].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper. Review inserted.
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| Deck E |
The century was young. By Louis Aragon. Translated by Hannah Josephson. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941.
|
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World 1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/2 |
Ceremony for Minneconjoux. By Brenda Marie Osbey. Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press, 1983.
|
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Paperback.
|
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| B/II/5 |
Ceremony in lone tree. By Wright Morris. New York : Atheneum, 1960.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Review copy.
|
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| A/VII/3 |
A certain world: a commonplace book. By W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, [c1970].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| B/II/5 |
The chain in the heart. By Herbert Creckmore. New York : Random House, [c1953].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| B/VI/1 |
Chance and symbol: a study in aesthetic and ethical consistency. By Richard Hertz. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1948].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/III/2 |
Change of territory. By Melvin Dixon. Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press, 1983.
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
|
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| Deck E |
Channel 13 / WNET Manual for teachers secondary 1971-1972. New York : School Television Service / Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
|
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Laid-in letter from Vice President of Educational Broadcasting Corporation removed and housed separately; filed immediately
adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/III/3 |
Chant of saints: a gathering of Afro-American literature, art, and sculpture. Edited by Michael S. Harper and Robert B. Stepto. Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c1979].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from their son ? on the occasion of the Brown University Ellison festival on front
free end paper.
Signature of Harper on title page.
Display.
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| B/V/4 |
Chaos and control in poetry: a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress, October 11, 1965. By Stephen Spender. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1966.
|
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Paperback.
|
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| B/I/1 |
Characters of Dostoevsky: studies from four novels. By Richard Curle. London : William Heinemann, [1950].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Bookshop mark.
Marks within.
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| B/VII/2 |
Charles Dickens: his tragedy and triumph. By Edgar Johnson. In two volumes. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1952.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Book review inserted in vol.1.
|
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| A/VI/5 |
Charles Waddell Chesnutt: pioneer of the color line. By Helen M. Chesnutt. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [c1952].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/V/4 |
Charmed circle: Gertrude Stein and Company. By Mellow. New York; Washington : Praeger Publishers, [c1974].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/III/3 |
Charred Wood: a collection of poems. By James Harrison. New York : Vantage Books, [c1971].
|
|
1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Address of the author inserted.
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| Deck E |
Cheer the lonesome traveler: The life of W.E.B. Du Bois. By Leslie Alexander Lacy. Illustrated by James Barkley. New York : The Dial Press, 1970.
|
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Uncorrected Galleys.
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| Deck E |
Chesapeake song. By Brenda Lane Richarson. New York : Amistad Press, Inc., 1993.
|
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Uncorrected Advance Reader's Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/IV/4 |
Chevaux-De-Frise. By Edward Tamm. Paris : Jean Grassin, [c1962].
|
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Edition originale.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
Child of God. By Cormac McCarthy. New York : Random House, 1973.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| B/V/5 |
Child psychology. By George D. Stoddard and Beth L. Wellman. New York : Macmillan Co., 1934.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/1 |
Children of crisis: a study of courage and fear. By Robert Coles. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1967].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| A/III/1 |
Children of Crisis. By Robert Coles. Vol. 2.: Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1971].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/III/1 |
Children of crisis. By Robert Coles. Vol.3: The South goes North. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1971].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Children of empire. By Robert Chrisman. Sausalito, CA : The Black Scholar Press, 1981.
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| B/VI/3 |
The children of light and the children of darkness: a vindication of democracy and a critique of its traditional defense. By Reinhold Niebuhr. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1960].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| A/VII/5 |
The children of pride: a true story of Georgia and the Civil War. Edited by Robert Manson Myers. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1972.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
China in the 16th century. The journals of Matthew Ricci 1583-1610. By Matthew Ricci. Translated by Louis J. Gallagher, S.J. Foreword by Richard J. Cushing, D.D., LL.D. New York : Random
House, 1953.
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| A/VII/1 |
A choice of weapons. By Gordon Parks. New York : Harper and Row, [c1966].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Notes within.
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| Deck E |
The Christening party. By Francis Steegmuller. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1960.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Christmas in Las Vegas: Poems. By Robert Watson. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st Edition.
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| X/X/X |
Christmas in Las Vegas. By R. Watson. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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First Edition edition.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The Christmas star. By Douglas Worth. [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1980.
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Inscribed by the author; was given as a Christmas gift.
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| Deck E |
The Christmas tree. By Isabel Bolton. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949.
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| Deck E |
The chronological history of the Negro in America. By Peter M. Bergman. New York : Harper & Row, 1969.
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1st Edition.
Autographed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. By Lewis Mumford. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, [c1961].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
City limit. By Hollis Summers. Boston : Houghton-Mifflin, Co., 1948.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by author.
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| Deck E |
The city of anger. By William Manchester. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper by the author.
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| Deck E |
The city of satisfaction: Poems by Daniel Hoffman. By Daniel G. Hoffman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1963.
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| Deck E |
City of words: American fiction 1950-1970. By Tony Tanner. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
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1st U.S. Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/5 |
The Civil War: a narrative. Fort Sumter to Perrysville. By Shelby Foote. New York : Random House, [c1958].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signature of Ellison on flyleaf.
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| A/VII/4 |
The Civil War: a narrative. Fredericksburg to Meridian. By Shelby Foote. New York : Random House, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/VII/4 |
The Civil War: a narrative. Red River to Appomatox. By Shelby Foote. New York : Random House, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| B/VI/3 |
Civilian morale. Edited by Goodwin Watson. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, [c1942].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/3 |
Civilization and its discontents. By Sigmund Freud. Translated from the German by Johann Riviere. Third edition. London : Hogarth Press, 1946.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/1 |
The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. By Jacob Burckhardt. London : Phaidon Press, [1944].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Civilization: A personal view. By Kenneth Clark. New York : Harper & Row, 1970.
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1st U.S. Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The clan of the cave bear. By Jean M. Auel. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980.
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1st Edition.
Advance Reading Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/2 |
The clansman: a historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan. By Thomas Dixon, Jr. New York : Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1905.
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Hardcover.
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| B/VI/5 |
The classical tradition in poetry: the Charles Eliot Norton lectures. By Gilbert Murray. New York : Vintage Books, 1957.
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1st Vintage edition.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Classics and commercials: A literary chronicle of the forties. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1958.
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Laid-in postcard removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Clear pictures: First loves, first guides. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1989.
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Clefs pour l'Amerique. By Claude Roy. Paris : Trois Collines, 1947.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison in French by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Clem Anderson. By R.V. Cassill. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1961.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Cliffs of fall and other stories. By Shirley Hazzard. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
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1st American Edition.
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| A/IV/2 |
The climate of faith in modern literature. Edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New York : Seabury Press, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/5 |
Climates of tragedy. By William Van O'Connor. With the assistance of Mary Allen O'Connor. Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University
Press, 1943.
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Hardcover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Climb to the high country: Poems. By Bill Hotchkiss. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Clods of southern earth: A collection of poems. By Don West. Drawings by Harold Price. New York : Boni and Gaer, 1946.
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| Deck E |
Closing the frontier: Radical response in Oklahoma, 1889-1923. By John Thompson. Norman : The University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
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| Deck E |
Coat of many colors: A play about Joseph in Egypt. By Barrie Stavis. Introduction by John Lewin. New York : A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1968.
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Inscribed, "For Ralph who knows that 'heroes need no gods and no tyrants'" by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Coat upon a stick. By Norman Fruchter. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1963.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The cock's funeral. By Ben Field. Introduction by Erskine Caldwell. New York : International Publishers, 1937.
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| Deck E |
Cockfighter. By Charles Willeford. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972.
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| B/VII/2 |
Coleridge on imagination. By I.A. Richards. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1934.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Collages, a novel. By Anais Nin. Denver, CO : Swallow Press, 1964.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title page.
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| A/IV/2 |
Collages: a novel. By Anais Nin. Denver : Alan Swallow, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review Copy.
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| A/VII/3 |
Collected longer poems. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Collected papers. By Sigmund Freud. In five volumes. Authorized translation under the supervision of John Riviere. London : Hogarth Press,
1949.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper of fifth volume only.
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| Deck E |
Collected poems 1951-1971. By A.R. Ammons. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1971.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The collected poems of Dylan Thomas. By Dylan Thomas. New York : New Directions / James Laughlin, 1953.
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Laid-in card to Fanny removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown. Selected by Michael S. Harper. By Sterling A. Brown. New York : Harper & Row, 1980.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The collected poems of W.B. Yeats. By W.B. Yeats. Definitive edition, with the author's final revisions. New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/2 |
Collected poems, 1909-1935. By T.S. Eliot. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1936].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/4 |
Collected poems, 1915-1967. By Kenneth Burke. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1968.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| B/V/4 |
Collected poems, 1928-1953. By Stephen Spender. New York : Random House, [c1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/3 |
Collected poems. By Wallace Stevens. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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3rd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Collected poems. By Herbert Read. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, n.d.
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| Deck E |
Collected poems. By Horace Gregory. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Collected Poems. By Edward Thomas. Foreword by Walter de la Mare. New York : W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1974.
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1st American Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/3 |
The collected poetry of W.H. Auden. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1945].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
Manuscript draft of a poem: "Doomed to fail if he succeeds."
Clipping about Hughes reading from Boston Chronicle; business card for eastern imports company; New York times review of
the book, part of dust jacket inserted.
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| A/VII/3 |
Collected shorter poems, 1927 - 1957. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Collected stories of William Faulkner. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1950].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The collected stories of William Goyen. By William Goyen. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The collected works of Billy the Kid. By Michael Ondaatje. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| X/X/X |
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. New York : Pantheon, 1957.
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The notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Boxed set vol. 1 text and vol. 1 notes.
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| X/X/X |
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. New York : Pantheon, 1961.
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The notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, boxed set vol. 2 text and vol. 2 notes.
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| B/III/2 |
A collection of critical essays. By Robert Penn Warren. Edited by John Lewis Longley. New York : New York University Press, 1965.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The collector. By John Fowles. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
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1st American Edition.
Advance Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The College Anthology. By Walter Blair and John C. Gerber. Chicago, IL : Scott, Foresman and Company, 1949.
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Laid-in slips from the Tuskegee Institute Department of English removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
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| Deck E |
The college built of prayer: Mary McLeod Bethune. By Jesse Walter Dees, Jr. Daytona Beach, FL : Bethune-Cookman College, 1953.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The colloquial style in America. By Richard Bridgman. London : Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Annotated and underlined heavily throughout.
Laid-in cards and notes removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/3 |
Color and human nature: Negro personality development in a Northern city. By W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams. Washington, DC : American Council on Education, 1941.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
1st edition.
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| Deck E |
Color of darkness: Eleven stories and a novella. By James Purdy. New York : New Directions Books / James Laughlin, 1957.
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| Deck E |
Come like the Benediction: A tribute to Tuskegee Institute and other essays. By Clyde Owen Jackson. Smithtown, NY : Exposition Press, 1981.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The comedians. By Graham Greene. New York : The Viking Press, 1966.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/3 |
The comic imagination in American literature. Edited by Louis D Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [c1973].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The coming crisis of western sociology. By Alvin W. Gouldner. New York : Basic Books Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Commitment to culture: Art patronage in Europe; Its significance for America. By Frederick Dorian. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A commodity of dreams and other stories. By Howard Nemerov. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1959.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The common wilderness. By Michael Seide. New York : Fiction Collective, 1982.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Communism in Vietnam: A documentary study of theory, strategy and operational practices. By Rodger Swearingen and Hammond Rolph. Chicago, IL : American Bar Association, 1967.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/4 |
Company K. By William March. New York : Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Complaint. By Richard Wilbur. New York : Phoenix Bookshop, 1968.
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Limited edition of 26 copies lettered A-Z and 100 copies numbered and signed by the author, copy Y.
Paperback /dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author on flyleaf.
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| B/III/2 |
The complection of Russian literature: a cento. Compiled by Andrew Field. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The complete essays and other writings. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson. Foreword by Tremaine McDowell. New
York : Modern Library, [c1950].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| A/VIII/5 |
The complete Greek tragedies. Edited by David Greene and Richmond Lattimore. In four volumes. Chicago : University of Chicago press, [1959].
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Vol. 1: Aeschylus Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper in this volume.
Vol. 2: Sophocles.
Vol. 3: Euripides.
Vol. 4: Euripides.
Hardcover.
Slip cover.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The complete notebooks. By Henry James. Edited and with introductions and notes by Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers. New York : Oxford University
Press, 1987.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The complete poems and plays, 1909-1950. By T.S. Eliot. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper. Unidentified bookplate.
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| B/IV/5 |
Complete Poems of Robert Frost. By Robert Frost. New York : Henry Holt and Co., [1959].
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Hardcover.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The complete stories of Herman Melville. By Herman Melville. Edited with an introduction and notes by Jay Leyda. New York : Random House, [c1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
A complete treatise on the conjugation of French verbs. By J. Castarede. Philadelphia, PA : David McKay, n.d.
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Laid-in manuscript note on Fanny Ellison's stationary along with other manuscript notes removed and housed separately; filed
immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The complete works of John M. Synge. By John M. Synge. New York : Random House, 1936.
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Inscription on front free endpaper reads, "To Fanny from Granville."
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The complete works of William Shakespeare. Volume 1 of 4: Comedies. By William Shakespeare. Note on the text by Herbert Farjeon. Introduction by Ivor Brown. London : The Nonesuch Press,
1953.
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Edition dedicated to Queen Elisabeth II in the year of her coronation.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/5 |
The complete works of William Shakespeare. By William Shakespeare. In four volumes. London : Nonesuch Press, in association with Random House, 1953.
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Vol. 1 is missing.
Vol. 2, Histories and Troylus and Cressida, according to its place in First Folio.
Vol. 3, Tragedies and pericles, with three plays of doubtful authorship, namely, Two noble kinsman, Edward III, Sir Thomas
More.
Vol. 4, Poems.
Hardcover / slip case.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper of all three volumes.
Bookmark inserted in Vol.3.
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| B/IV/2 |
The complex fate: Hawthorne, Henry James, and some other American writers. By Marius Bewley. With an introduction and two interpolations by F.R. Leavis. London : Chatto and Windus, [1952].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The comprehensive high school: A second report to interested citizens. By James Bryant Conant. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The compulsion to confess: On the psychoanalysis of crime and punishment. By Theodor Reik. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1959.
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1st Printing.
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| A/II/2 |
Comunita, No. 163., January 1971. [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1971.
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Subscription card and envelope from Berkeley inserted.
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| B/V/2 |
The concept of dread. By Soren Kierkegaard. Translated with introduction and notes by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,
1944.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes within.
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| A/IV/1 |
Concerning the young. By Willard Maas. New York : Farrar and Rinehart, [c1938].
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Hardcover / --.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Part of dust jacket inserted.
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| B/VII/1 |
The concise Cambridge history of English literature. By George Sampson. Second edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1961.
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2nd edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
The condition of man. By Lewis Mumford. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1944].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
The conduct of life. By Lewis Mumford. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1951].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Worker's pass ticket stubs to a basketball game, "Washington Generals vs. Philadelphia Spahs" featuring the Harlem Globetrotters
inserted.
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| A/VII/5 |
The confederacy. Edited by Albert D. Kirwan. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
|
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Paperback.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Confession of a spent youth. By Vance Bourjaily. New York : The Dial Press, 1960.
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| A/V/2 |
Confession of a white racist. By Larry L. King. New York : Viking Press, [c.1971].
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Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man [The early years]. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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1st American Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The confidence-man: his masquerade. By Herman Melville. With an introduction by Roy Fuller. London : John Lehmann, [1948].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Marks within.
Notes on back free endpaper.
Note from Fanny on scrap paper - "Ralph - Could I have back my [indecipherable] - except those which you plan to [print?]."
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| A/II/5 |
The confident years: 1885-1915. By Van Wyck Brooks. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1955.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author.
|
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| A/IV/1 |
Confusions. By Jack Ludwig. Greenwich, CT : New York Graphic Society, [c1963].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
The connoisseur's book of the cigar. By Zino Davidoff. With the collaboration of Gilles Lambert. Translated from the French by Lawrence Grow. New York : McGraw-Hill
Book Company, 1967.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The conquerors: A story of the Chinese revolution of the twenties. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Winifred Stephens Whale. With a new postface translated by Jacques Le Clercq. Boston
: The Beacon Press, 1956.
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1st Beacon Paperback Edition.
Signed on front free endpaper twice by Ellison in both pen and pencil.
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| B/II/4 |
The conquerors. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Stephen Becker. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/VII/4 |
Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the Critics. By Joseph Conrad. San Francisco : Wadsworth Publishing, [1961].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Notes on back cover.
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| Deck E |
Consciousness in Concord: The text of Thoreau's hitherto "Lost journal" (1840-1841). By Henry David Thoreau. Notes and commentary by Perry Miller. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
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1st Printing.
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| A/V/3 |
The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada. By Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
With label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Constructivism: Origins and evolution. By George Rickey. New York : George Braziller, 1967.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in errata list removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Contemporaries. Portraits by Bern Schwartz. With a foreword by Lord Clark. London : William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1978.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by Ronny Schwartz who did layout and text of this book.
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| B/V/2 |
Contemporaries. By Alfred Kazin. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., [c1962].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VII/1 |
The contemporary french novel. By Henri Peyre. New York : Oxford University Press, 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
Contexts of criticism. By Harry Levin. New York : Atheneum, 1963.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Continent. By Jim Crace. New York : Harper & Row, 1987.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A continuing journey: Essays and addresses by Archibald MacLeish. By Archibald MacLeish. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.
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| A/VII/2 |
Conversations with Nelson Algren. By H.E.F. Donohue. New York : Hill and Wang, [c1964].
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[1st edition].
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| Deck E |
Conversion: The old and the new in religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo. By A.D. Nock. London : Oxford University Press, 1933.
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| Deck E |
Cony-Catching. By Kirby Farrell. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Cool hand Luke. By Donn Pearce. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965.
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| Deck E |
Corky's brother. By Jay Neugeboren. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Correct exposure in photography. By Willard D. Morgan and Henry M. Lester. New York : Morgan & Lester, 1944.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
The cosmological eye. By Henry Miller. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1939].
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Hardcover.
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| A/VII/5 |
The cotton kingdom: a traveler's observations on cotton and slavery and the American slave states. By Frederick Law Olmsted. Edited with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature of R. Ellison on the front free end paper.
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| A/V/3 |
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part five. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Count Palmiro Vicarion's book of bawdy ballads. By Palmiro Vicarion. Paris : The Olympia Press, 1956.
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| Deck E |
Count Palmiro Vicarion's Book of limericks. By Palmiro Vicarion. Paris : The Olympia Press, 1956.
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| Deck E |
Countdown man. By John Lucas. Winona, MN : Winona Printing Company, 1972.
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Inscribed to the Ellisons by the author.
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| A/VII/3 |
Counter-statement. By Kenneth Burke. Los Altos, CA : Hermes Publications, [c1953].
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
Dust jacket inserted.
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| A/II/2 |
Counter-statement. By Kenneth Burke. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1931].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, April 1943.
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| B/III/2 |
The counterfeiters: a historical comedy. By Hugh Kenner. With drawings by Guy Davenport. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1985].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Notes on scrap paper inserted.
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| B/III/1 |
The country blues. By Samuel B. Charters. London : Michael Joseph, [1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The coup. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Courage of Conviction. Edited with an introduction by Phillip L. Berman. New York : Ballantine Books, 1986.
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1st Ballantine Books Edition.
Laid-in letter from the editor removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
The courage to create. By Rollo May. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1975].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by "a neighbor."
Note explaining circumstances of how he was given the book inserted.
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| B/IV/4 |
The course of empire. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [c1952].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| B/VI/4 |
The court and the castle: some treatments of a recurring theme. By Rebecca West. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes about Bliss inserted.
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| A/VI/4 |
Court-martial: a black man in America. By John F. Marszalek, Jr. [New York : Charles Scribner's Sons], [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The craft of Ralph Ellison. By Robert G. O'Meally. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1980.
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Annotated throughout.
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| Deck E |
The crater. By Richard Slotkin. New York : Atheneum, 1980.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| A/IV/3 |
Craters of the spirit; studies in the modern novel. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Washington and Cleveland : Corpus Books, [1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by author.
Letter from the author inserted.
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| A/VI/1 |
The crazy kill. By Chester Himes. New York : Avon Books, [c1959].
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Paperback.
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| B/IV/2 |
Creative evolution. By Henri Bergson. Authorized translation by Arthur Mitchell. With foreword by Irving Edmund. New York : Modern Library,
[c1944].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/5 |
Creative intuition in art and poetry. By Jacque Maritain. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/II/3 |
The creative present: notes on contemporary American fiction. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1963.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/V/5 |
The creative process: a symposium. Edited by Brewster Ghiselin. New York : New American Library, [1955].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary page.
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| B/VI/4 |
The creative vision: modern European writers on their art. Edited by Haskell M. Block and Herman Salinger. New York : Grove Press, [c1960].
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1st printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Creative writing of verse: A constructive study of poetry. By H. Augustus Miller, Jr. New York : American Book Company, 1932.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The creators: A history of heroes of the imagination. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, 1992.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/1 |
Crime and justice in America. By Charles E. Silberman. [S.l.] : [s.n.] : [c1976].
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Manuscript, part one, chapters five and six; in a loose leaf binding.
Letter from Silberman to Ellison inserted.
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| B/I/2 |
Crime and punishment: the Coulson translation, background, and sources: essays and criticism. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Edited by George Gibian. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1964].
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1st edition.
LCCN 64-10893.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/I/2 |
Crime and punishment. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated with an introduction by David. Bungay, Suffolk : Penguin Books, [c1956].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/VIII/2 |
Crime and punishment. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Jessie Coulson. Illustrated by Robert and Corrine Borga. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin
Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Crime and punishment. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett. New York : The Modern Library, n.d.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/3 |
Criminal psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students. By Hans Gross. Translated from the fourth German edition by Horace M. Kallen. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1918.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
Criminal violence, criminal justice. By Charles E. Silberman. New York : Random House, [c1978].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Invitation to Random House reception for Silberman inserted.
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| B/VI/3 |
Criminology. By Robert H. Gault. Boston : D.C. Heath and Co., [c1932].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/1 |
The crippled giant: a bizarre adventure in contemporary letters. By Milton Hindus. New York : Boar's Head Books, 1950.
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Parts of dust jacket inserted.
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| A/II/2 |
The crisis in physics. By Christopher Caudwell. Edited by H. Levy. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1939].
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1st edition.
Hardcover /dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
Notes within.
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| A/IV/2 |
The crisis of possession in Voodoo. By Louis Mars. Translated by Kathleen Collins. Berkeley, CA : Reed and Cannon, 1977.
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Paperback.
Letter from Ishmael Reed inserted.
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| A/III/2 |
The crisis of the Negro intellectual. By Hart W. Cruse. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1967.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/V/2 |
The critic's credentials: essays and reviews. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. Edited by Phoebe Pettingell. New York : Atheneum, 1978.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary leaf.
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| Deck E |
The critic's credentials. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. Edited by Phoebe Pettingell. New York : Atheneum, 1978.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| B/V/1 |
The critical attitude. By Ford Madox Hueffer. London : Duckworth and Co., 1911.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
Scrap paper inserted.
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| A/II/2 |
Critical essays on Richard Wright. Edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani. Boston, MA : G.K. Hall, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| B/V/1 |
The critical performance: an anthology of American and British literary criticism of our century. Edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title and flyleaf.
Marks within.
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| A/VII/4 |
Critical responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966. Edited by William H. Rueckert. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [c1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes and marks within book.
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| Deck E |
Criticizing the critics. By John W. English. New York : Hastings House, 1979.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The crocodile. By Larry Yust. Based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1970.
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Script possibly for TV production.
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| A/V/3 |
The cross and the arrow. By Albert Maltz. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., [c1944].
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(Armed Services Editions).
Paperback.
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| B/I/3 |
The cross of Baron Samedi. By Richard Dohrman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1958.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The crying of lot 49. By Thomas Pynchon. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The cultural contradictions of capitalism. By Daniel Bell. New York : Basic Books Inc., 1976.
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| Deck E |
Cultural literacy: What every American needs to know. By E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.
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| B/IV/4 |
Culture and democracy: the struggle for form in society and architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the life and
times of Louis Sullivan. By Hugh Dalziel Duncan. New York : Bedminster Press, 1965.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/5 |
Culture and poverty: critique and counter-proposals. By Charles A. Valentine. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review by Ellison printed on dust jacket.
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| B/V/3 |
The culture of cities. By Lewis Mumford. London : Martin Secker and Warburg, 1938.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/2 |
D.H. Lawrence in Italy. By Leo Hamalian. New York : Taplinger, [1982].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/2 |
D.H. Lawrence: an unprofessional study. By Anais Nin. With an introduction by Harry T. Moore. Denver : Alan Swallow, [c1964].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Anais Nin - "from the invisible woman in American literature."
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| B/II/3 |
Daisy Miller: an international episode. By Henry James. New York : Modern Library, [n.d.].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| B/II/2 |
Damn right I've got the blues: Buddy Guy and the Blues roots of rock and roll. By Donald E. Wilcock. San Francisco : Woodford Press, [1993].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Damned ugly children: Poems. By Andrew Glaze. New York : Trident Press, 1966.
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| A/VI/5 |
Dan Emmett and the rise of early Negro minstrelsy. By Hans Nathan. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [c1962].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The danger of equality and other essays. By Geoffrey Gorer. New York : Weybright and Talley, 1966.
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| Deck E |
Dangling man. By Saul Bellow. New York : The Vanguard Press, 1944.
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Laid-in movie ticket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The dark arena. By Mario Puzo. New York : Random House, 1955.
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1st Printing.
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| A/V/1 |
The dark child. By Laye Camara. With an introduction by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin. Translated by James Kirkup, Ernest Jones and Elaine
Gottlieb. New York : Noonday Press, [c1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/3 |
Dark legend: a study in murder. By Frederick Wertham. New York : Duel, Sloan, and Pearce, [c1941].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Dark witness: When Black people should be sacrificed (again). By Ralph Wiley. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
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A One World Book.
1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The dark. By John McGahern. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
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1st American Edition.
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| A/IV/1 |
The darker brother. By Bucklin Moon. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Dolan and Co., 1943.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, dated August 1943.
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| Deck E |
Darkness visible: A memoir of madness. By William Styron. New York : Random House, 1990.
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1st Edition.
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| A/V/5 |
David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Paul Degan. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| A/VII/4 |
The day Lincoln was shot. By Jim Bishop. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VII/4 |
The day of the locust. By Nathaniel West. With an introduction by Richard Gehman. New York : Bantam Books, [1953].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary leaf.
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| A/III/2 |
The days of Ophelia. Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave. By Gerturde Diamant. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1942].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
Days of wrath. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Foreword by Waldo Frank. New York : Random House, 1936.
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1st Printing.
Annotated lightly throughout, including on rear free endpaper.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
De profundis. By Oscar Wilde. Edited, with a prefatory dedication by Robert Ross. Introductory essay by Frank Harris. New York : The
Modern Library, Inc., 1926.
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1st Modern Library edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in manuscript notes removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The de-definition of art: Action art to pop to earthworks. By Harold Rosenberg. New York : Horizon Press, 1972.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/1 |
Dead end school. By Robert Coles. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1968].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Dead man in the silver market. By Aubrey Menen. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/5 |
Dead reckoning: a book of poetry. By Kenneth Fearing. New York : Random House, [c1938].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Obituary inserted.
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| A/III/3 |
Dear John, dear Coltrane. By Michael S. Harper. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [c1970].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on flyleaf.
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| A/III/3 |
Dear John, dear Coltrane. By Michael S. Harper. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [c1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Advertisement inserted.
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| Deck E |
Dear Judas and other poems. By Robinson Jeffers. Afterword by Robert J. Brophy. New York : Liveright, 1977.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/4 |
Dear lovely death. By Langston Hughes. New York : Troutbeck, 1931.
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Limited edition of 100 signed copies printed for private distribution.
Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Dear Scott / Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins correspondence. Edited by John Kuehl and Jackson Bryer. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
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Inscribed, "To Professor Ellison, as a small token of my appreciation for talking about some things that matter at 9:00 one
March morning. With much respect," by John Kuehl on half-title page.
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| B/IV/5 |
The death and birth of David Markand: an American story. By Waldo Frank. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Death in the afternoon. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
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First edition, first printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in part of cloth spine and postcard from bookshop removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this
book.
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| B/III/2 |
Death in Venice. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. New York : Alfred A Knopf., 1965.
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Hardcover / dust jacket. Slip case.
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| Deck E |
The death of Ivan Ilyitch. By Leo Tolstoy. New York : The Happy Hour Library, Inc., n.d.
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| B/VI/5 |
The death of tragedy. By George Steiner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
The decline and fall of the romantic ideal. By F.L. Lucas. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1963.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| B/IV/2 |
The decline of radicalism: reflections on America today. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Harper and Row, [c1969].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/II/5 |
The deep sleep. By Wright Morris. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. [1st edition, 1st printing].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/II/2 |
Defender of the angels: a black policeman in old Los Angeles. By Jess Kimbrough. New York : MacMillan Co., [c1969].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/4 |
The dehumanization of art and other writings on art and culture. By Jose Ortega Y Gasset. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1956.
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| A/II/3 |
Deliberate speed: the origins of a cultural style in the American 1950s. By W.T. Lhamon, Jr. Washington D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1990].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
The delicate prey and other stories. By Paul Bowles. New York : Random House, 1950.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Delinquent chacha. By Ved Mehta. New York : Harper & Row, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Delusions, Etc. By John Berryman. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/2 |
Democracy and its discontents: reflections of everyday America. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [c1974].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Advance copy.
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| B/V/4 |
Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville. In two volumes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
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10th printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Slip case.
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| Deck E |
Democratic Spirit: A collection of American writings from the earliest times to the present day. Edited, with an introduction by Bernard Smith. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/4 |
The democratic vista: a dialogue on life and letters in contemporary America. By Richard V. Chase. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1958.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Demographic change and racial ghettos: The crisis of American cities. By Herbert Hill. Reprinted form Journal of Urban Law, University of Detroit, Volume 44, Winter, 1966. New York : National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1966.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the front cover.
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| Deck E |
The demon lover: A psychoanalytical approach to literature. By Arthur Wormhoudt. Foreword by Edmund Bergler, M.D. New York : Exposition Press, 1949.
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| B/V/5 |
The denial of death. By Ernst Becker. New York : Free Press, [c1973].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| A/IV/1 |
The design and meaning in Absalom! Absalom! By Isle Dusoir Lind. Reprint from PMLA, vol. 70, No. 5, Dec. 1955. New York : Modern Language Association of America,
[n.d.].
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Softbound.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the front cover.
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| B/VI/4 |
The desk standard dictionary of the English language. Abridged from the Funk and Wagnalls New standard dictionary of the English language by James C. Fernald. A new edition.
New York : Funk and Wagnalls, 1935.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/4 |
The destructive element: a study of modern writers and beliefs. By Stephen Spender. London : Jonathan Cape, [1935].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Postcard inserted.
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| B/VI/5 |
The development of the detective novel. By A.E. Murch. New York : Philosophical Library, [1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/1 |
The Devil's Share. By Denise De Rougemont. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1944].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Bookstore mark on back pastedown.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/V/5 |
The devils of Loudun. By Aldous Huxley. New York : Harper and Brothers, [1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The dialogic imagination: four essays. By Mikhail M. Bakhtin. Edited by Michael Holquist. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin : University
of Texas Press, [c1981].
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3rd paperback printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf, dated. Marks within.
Scrap paper with dolls' theory inserted.
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| Deck E |
Dialogue with death. By Arthur Koestler. Translated by Trevor and Phyllis Blewitt. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1942.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Dialogue with Erik Erikson. Volume III in the series :Dialogues with Notable Contributors to 'Personality Theory'. By Richard I. Evans. New York : Harper & Row, 1967.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead as recorded by Lucien Price. By Alfred North Whitehead. New York : The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956.
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1st Printing.
A Mentor Book.
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| Deck E |
The dialogues of Plato. Volume II. By Plato. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett, M.A. In four Volumes. New York : Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1901.
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| Deck E |
The dialogues of Plato. Volume III. By Plato. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett, M.A. In four Volumes. New York : Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1901.
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| Deck E |
The dialogues of Plato. Volume IV. By Plato. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett, M.A. In four Volumes. New York : Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1901.
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| A/VII/5 |
A diary from Dixie. By Mary Boykin Chestnut. Edited by Ben Ames Williams. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper, and also by Nathaniel S. Trench.
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| B/VI/2 |
Diary in America. By Frederick Marryat. Edited by Jules Zanger. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University, [c1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket in plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The diary of a writer. In two volumes. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated and annotated by Boris Brasol. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949.
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First edition, first printing.
Slip case.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpapers of both volumes.
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| Deck E |
The diary of Anais Nin 1931-1934. By Anais Nin. Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann. New York : The Swallow Press and Harcourt, Brace and
World, Inc., 1966.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/2 |
Dickens, Dali and others: studies in popular culture. By George Orwell. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, [c1946].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
A dictionary of modern English usage. By H.W. Fowler. New York : Oxford University Press, [1950].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Die unsicht bare pforte. By Paul Schalluck. Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer Verlag, 1954.
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Inscribed in German to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/2 |
A different drummer. By William Melvin Kelley. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1962.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Dionysus. By Roderick Thorp. New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., 1969.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
The disc book. By David Hall. Edited by Abner Levin. New York : Long Player Publications, Inc., 1955.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the editor on the following front free endpaper.
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| A/II/5 |
The discoverers: a history of man's search to know his world and himself. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [c1983].
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1st edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
Discovering the present: Three decades in art, culture, and politics. By Harold Rosenberg. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 1973.
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Laid-in bookmark from the Strand Book Store in New York as well as a newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed
immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/2 |
Discovery to discourse. By B. Kirschner and J.M. Yates. New York : Macmillan, [c1983].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
A discussion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Crocodile. By Clifton Fadiman. Script possibly for TV production. [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1970.
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| Deck E |
The disenchanted. By Budd Schulberg. New York : Random House, 1950.
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| A/IV/1 |
The disguises of love. By Robie Macauley. New York : Random House, [c1952].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/VII/3 |
The disinherited mind: essays in modern German literature and thought. By Erich Heller. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [1957].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
The dismemberment of Orpheus: towards a postmodern literature. By Ihab Hassan. New York : Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Disordered minds: The first century of Eastern State Hospital of Williamsburg, Virginia 1766-1866. By Norman Dain. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1971.
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| Deck E |
The dispensable man. By Wolf Rilla. New York : The John Day Company, 1973.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The dissenters: Voices from contemporary America. By John Langston Gwaltney. New York : Random House, 1986.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/4 |
The divine comedy. By Aligheri Dante. Translated by John Ciardi. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1977].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The Divine Comedy. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. [S.l.] : A.L. Burt Company, n.d.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The divine comedy. By Aligheri Dante. The Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation. Introduction by C.H. Grandgent. New York : Modern Library, [c1950].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Divine days. By Leon Forrest. Chicago, IL : Another Chicago Press, 1992.
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Inscribed, "Mt dear Ralph: Thanks for your personal words of encouragement, and your grand artistic example. Love to you
and the dear and lovely Fanny" by the author on the title page.
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| B/II/5 |
Divine horsemen: the living gods of Haiti. By Maya Deren. London : Thames and Hudson, [c1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Review and an advertisement inserted.
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| Deck E |
The divine milieu: An essay on the interior life. By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1960.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Diving into the wreck: Poems 1971-1972. By Adrienne Rich. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in photograph of the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The Dixie frontier: a social history of the Southern frontier from the first Transmontane beginnings to the Civil War. By Everett Dick. New York : Alfred A Knopf, 1948.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Do Lord remember me. By Julius Lester. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/3 |
Do these bones live. By Edward Dahlberg. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1941].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/IV/1 |
The domesticated americans. By Russell Lynes. New York : Harper and Row, [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Strand bookmark inserted.
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| A/V/4 |
Don Quixote de la Mancha. By Miguel de Cervantes. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
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Hardcover.
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| A/II/2 |
Donald S. Klopfer: an appreciation. New York : Random House, [1987?].
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Limited edition.
Hardcover.
Letter from Random House inserted.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevski: the making of a novelist. By Ernest J. Simmons. New York : Oxford University Press, 1940.
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Part of dust jacket inserted.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky and romantic realism: a study of Dostoevsky in relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol. By Donald Fanger. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1965.
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LCCN 65-13841.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky: a collection of critical essays. Edited by Rene Wellek. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1962].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary page.
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| Deck E |
Dostoevsky: A self-portrait. By Jessie Coulson. London : Oxford University Press, 1962.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky: a study. By Janko Lavrin. Second edition marked. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1943.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Part of dust jacket and cartoon clipping inserted.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky: his life and work. By Constantin Mochulsky. Translated with an introduction by Michael A. Minihan. Princeton,NJ : Princeton University Press,
1967.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Dostoevsky: His life and work. By Leonid Grossman. Translated by Mary Mackler. New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1975.
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1st U.S. Printing.
Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/3 |
Dostoevsky: the seeds of revolt, 1821-1849. By Joseph Frank. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on flyleaf.
Letter from the author inserted.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky: the seeds of revolt, 1821-1849. By Joseph Frank. In two volumes. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket. Second copy.
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| A/I/1 |
Dostoevsky. By Andre Gide. With an introduction by Arnold Bennet. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Books, [1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky. By Nicholas Berdyaev. Translated by Donald Atwater. New York : Meridian Books, [1958].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Marks within.
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| A/I/1 |
Dostoevsky. By David Magarshack. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, [1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky. By Eduard Thurneysen. Translated by Keith R. Crim. Richmond, VA : John Knox Press, [c1964].
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Paperback.
Marks within.
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| B/I/1 |
Dostoevsky's occasional writings. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Selected, translated, and introduced by David Magarshack. New York : Random House, [c1963].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Dostoevsky's quest for form: a study of his philosophy of art. By Robert Louis Jackson. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket in plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The double axe and other poems. Including eleven suppressed poems. By Robinson Jeffers. Foreword by William Everson. Afterword by Bill Hotchkiss. New York : Liveright, 1977.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/5 |
Double dunk. By Barry Beckham. Los Angeles : Holloway House, [c1980].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. By James D. Watson. New York : Atheneum, 1968.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The double life of Stephen Crane: A biography. By Christopher Benfey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
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Uncorrected Proof of 1st Edition.
Laid-in photocopied documents removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/5 |
Down home: a history of African-American short fiction, from its beginning to the Harlem Renaissance. By Robert Bone. New York : G.B. Putnam Sons, [c1975].
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Uncorrected proof.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Dr. Heart: A novella & other stories. By Eleanor Clark. New York : Pantheon Books, 1974.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/2 |
The dragon and the unicorn. By Kenneth Rexroth. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1952].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Pressed dry leaf inserted.
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| B/III/5 |
The dramas of Aeschylus. By Aeschylus. Translated by Anna Swanwick. Fourth edition, revised. London : George Bell and Sons, 1907.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| X/X/X |
A dramatistic view of the origins of language. By Kenneth Burke. Iowa : Iowa City, 1953.
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Reprint from the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol.39, No.1, February 1953.
"Postscripts on the Negative" by Kenneth Burke inserted.
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| Deck E |
The dream and the deal: The Federal Writers' Project 1935-1943. By Jerre Mangione. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
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1st Edition.
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| A/II/5 |
The dream songs. By John Berryman. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, [c1969].
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First printing, 1969.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Dreams in the mirror: A biography of E.E. Cummings. By Richard S. Kennedy. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1979.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Drive, he said. By Jeremy Larner. New York : Delacorte Press Book, 1964.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately.
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| A/VII/2 |
A drop of patience. By William Melvin Kelley. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1965.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Drums under the windows. By Sean O'Casey. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1947.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/1 |
Drylongso: a self-portrait of black America. By John Langston Gwaltney. New York : Vintage Books, [1981].
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Paperback.
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| B/II/4 |
Dublin's Joyce. By Hugh Kenner. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 1956.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Duck Boats: Blinds: Decoys: and Eastern Seaboard Wildfowling. By Raymond R. Camp. Drawings in line and color by G. Don Ray. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Duino elegies. By Rainer Maria Rilke. A new translation, with an introduction and commentary by David Young. New York : W.W. Norton &
Company, Inc., 1978.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Duino elegies. By Rainer Maria Rilke. The German text, with an English translation, introduction, and commentary by J.B. Leishman and
Stephen Spender. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1939.
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| Deck E |
Dunfords travels everywheres. By William Melvin Kelley. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Dust tracks on a road: an autobiography. 1792-1942. By Zora Neale Hurston. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippencott Co., [c1942].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
Marks within, especially on p 48.
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| Deck E |
Dust tracks on a road: An autobiography. By Zora Neale Hurston. Philadelphia, PA. : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in Book-of-the-Month Club receipt removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/3 |
The Dyer's hand and other essays. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1962].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Dynamic emotions: A series of historical episodes illustrating the psychology of famous historical characters. By Karl H. Bremer. Cincinnati, OH : The Standard Historical Society, 1928.
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| Deck E |
Each leaf shines separate: Poems. By Rosanna Warren. New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 1984.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on half-title page by the author.
Laid-in photocopy of letter from Fanny to the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Early American poets. Selected and with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. New York : Library Publishers, 1952.
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Laid-in newspaper clippings removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent from this book.
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| A/VII/2 |
Early black photographers: 1840-1940: 23 postcards. Edited by Deborah Willis. New York : New Press, [c1992].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
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| B/IV/1 |
The eating of the gods: an interpretation of Greek tragedy. By Jan Kott. Translated by Boreslaw Taborski and Edward J. Czerwinski. New York : Random House, [c1973].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ecce homo and the birth of tragedy. By Friedrich W. Nietzsche. Translated by Clifton P. Fadiman. New York : The Modern Library, Inc., 1927.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/2 |
The eccentric design: form in the classic American novel. By Marius Bewley. New York : Columbia University Press, 1959.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Echoes of halcyon days. By Maximus A. Lesser. Hartford, CT : Truman Joseph Spencer, 1897.
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Inscribed on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The edge of the woods. By Heather Ross Miller. New York : Atheneum, 1964.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Edith Wharton: A biography. By R.W.B. Lewis. New York : Harper & Row, 1975.
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| A/VI/5 |
An education in Georgia: the integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes. By Calvin Trillin. New York : Viking Press, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/5 |
The education of black folk: the Afro-American struggle for knowledge in white America. By Allen B. Ballard. New York : Harper and Row Publishers; Harper Colophon Books, [c1973].
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1st Harper Colophon edition, 1974.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Eighteenth-century prints in Colonial America: To educate and decorate. Edited by Joan D. Dolmetsch. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1979.
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Laid-in letter from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this
book.
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| Deck E |
Eighth generation grows up: Cultures and personalities of New Orleans Negroes. Edited by John H. Rohrer and Munro S. Edmonson. New York : The University Library / Harper & Row, 1964.
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1st Harper Torchbook Edition.
Laid-in letter from the wife of one of the editors removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Either/or: a fragment of life. By Soren Kierkegaard. In two volumes. Translated by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1946.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/I/2 |
El hombre invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Andres Bosch. 2nd edition. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Lumen, 1984.
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing. Third copy.
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| A/I/3 |
El hombre invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Andres Bosch. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Lumen, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| A/I/2 |
El hombre invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Andres Bosch. 2nd edition. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Lumen, 1984.
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing. Second copy.
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| A/I/3 |
El hombre invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Andres Bosch. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Lumen, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Second copy.
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| A/I/5 |
El hombre invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Andres Bosch. 2nd edition. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Lumen, 1984.
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing. Forth copy.
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| A/I/2 |
El hombre invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Andres Bosch. 2nd edition. Barcelona, Spain : Editorial Lumen, 1984.
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| A/III/2 |
Electrical and Electronic Technologies: a chronology of events and inventors to 1900. By Henry B.O. Davis. Metuchen, NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1981.
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Letter from the author inserted.
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| Deck E |
Electronic life: How to think about computers. By Michael Crichton. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/4 |
The elements of style. By William Strunk, Jr. With revisions, an introduction, and a new chapter on writing by E.B. White. New York : Macmillan
Co., [c1959].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The elements of style. By William Strunk, Jr. With revisions, an introduction, and a new chapter on writing by E.B. White. New York : The Macmillan
Company, 1959.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
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| B/IV/2 |
Eleven essays in the European novel. By R.P. Blackmur. New York : Harcourt Brace, and World, [1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes and marks within.
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| Deck E |
Eleven years in Soviet prison camps. By Elinor Lipper. Chicago, IL : Henry Regnery Company, 1951.
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Inscribed to Fanny Ellison on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Eli Whitney and the birth of American technology. By Constance McLaughli Green. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1956.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/3 |
Eliot and the Orphic way. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Reprint from Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol.42, No.2, June 1974.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| B/VII/1 |
Elizabethan drama. Vol. 2. In two volumes. New York : P.F. Collier and Son, [c1910].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ellington: The early years. By Mark Tucker. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1991.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
Ellison's Invisible Man. By John F. Callahan. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2001.
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Inscribed, "For Fanny: As always with love and gratitude" by the author.
Laid-in letter from the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/2 |
Embrace: selected love poems. By Paul Engle. New York : Random House, [c1969].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature of author on title page.
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| A/IV/1 |
The emerging thought of W.E.B. DuBois: essays and editorials from The Crisis with an introduction, commentaries, and a personal
memoir by Henry Lee Moon. By Henry Lee Moon. New York : Simon and Schuster, [c1972].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| B/III/5 |
Emerson: a modern anthology. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Alfred Kazin and Daniel Aaron. New York : Dell Publishing, [1958].
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Paperback.
Signature or R.E. on half-title.
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| B/III/5 |
Emerson: a modern anthology. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Alfred Kazin and Daniel Aaron. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1958].
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/4 |
The emotions: outline of a theory. By Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. New York : Philosophical Library, [c1948].
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| Deck E |
The empire of reason: How Europe imagined and America realized the Enlightenment. By Henry Steele Commager. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1977.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Employment, income, and the ordeal of the Negro family. Daedalus Conference on "The Negro American" May 14-15, 1965. By Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Brookline, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1965.
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Unedited Draft Copy.
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| A/VII/3 |
The enchanted flood, or, the romantic iconography of the sea. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1950].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature on front free endpaper.
Extensive marks within.
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| Deck E |
The end of intelligent writing: Literary politics in America. By Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Sheed & Ward, Inc., 1974.
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Pre-publication copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
The end of pity and other stories. By Robie Macauley. New York : MacDowell, Obolensky, Inc., [c1957].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Hotel messages inserted.
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| Deck E |
An end to chivalry: A short novel and five stories. By Tom Cole. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/4 |
Enemies of Promise. By Cyril Connolly. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1939.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Enemies. By Richard Harris. New York : Richard Marek Publishers, 1979.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The enemy camp. By Jerome Weidman. New York : Random House, 1958.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
English folk: A book of characters. By Wallace Notestein. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/4 |
English Institute essays, 1952. Edited by Alan S. Downer. New York : Columbia University Press, 1954.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/1 |
The English novel: a short critical history. By Walter Allen. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1958.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
English poets: Selections with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction by Matthew Arnold. Volume
I. Chaucer to Donne. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1903.
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| Deck E |
English poets: Selections with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction by Matthew Arnold. Volume
II. Ben Jonson to Dryden. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, M.A. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1903.
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| Deck E |
English poets: Selections with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction by Matthew Arnold. Volume
III. Addison to Blake. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, M.A. London : The Macmillan Company, 1903.
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Laid-in poem removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
English poets: Selections with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction by Matthew Arnold. Volume
IV. Wordsworth to Tennyson. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1903.
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| Deck E |
The entrance to Porlock. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The epic of Latin American literature. By Arturo Torres-Rioseco. New York : Oxford University Press, 1942.
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| A/VII/3 |
Epistle to a Godson and other poems. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1972].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
Epitaph on George Moore. By Charles Morgan. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1935.
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| A/VI/5 |
Equal protection of the laws in North Carolina: report of the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the United States Commission
on Civil Rights, 1959-62. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, [1962].
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Paperback.
Errata list pasted to inside of front cover.
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| A/III/1 |
Erik H. Erikson: the growth of his work. By Robert Coles. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1970].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/3 |
Ernest Hemingway: a critical essay. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Grand Rapids, MI : William B. Eerdmans, [c1966].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on title page.
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| B/I/5 |
Ernest Hemingway: a life story. By Carlos Baker. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/II/1 |
Ernest Hemingway: a reconsideration. By Philip Young. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, [c1966].
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Paperback.
Stamp of Schweitzer Library.
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| B/I/5 |
Ernest Hemingway. By Errol Rovit. New York : Twayne Publishers, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Business card inserted.
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| B/II/1 |
Ernest Hemingway. By Philip Young. New York : Rinehart and Co., [c1952].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Escape from evil. By Ernest Becker. New York : Free Press, 1975.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/3 |
Escape from freedom. By Erich Fromm. New York : Farrar and Rinehart, [c1941].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes and marks within.
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| Deck E |
The escape into you: A sequence of poems. By Marvin Bell. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Escape the Thunder. By Lonnie Coleman. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1944.
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1st Edition.
Wartime Book.
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| A/VIII/2 |
Essays ancient and modern. By T.S. Eliot. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1936].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper. Parts of dust jacket, and printed photograph of Fort Williams/Fort Augustus
inserted.
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| Deck E |
Essays and introductions. By W.B. Yeats. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1961.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/2 |
Essays in criticism. By Matthew Arnold. New York : Macmillan, 1883.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Essays of three decades. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/4 |
Essays on Thomas Mann. By Georg Lukács. Translated from the German by Stanley Mitchell. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [1965].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Essays, speeches, and public letters. By William Faulkner. Edited by James B. Meriwether. New York : Random House, Mc1965].
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1st printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page and on front free endpaper.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/2 |
The essence of laughter and other essays, journals, and letters. By Charles Baudelaire. Edited, selected and introduced by Peter Quennell. New York : Meridian Books, 1956.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Shopping list inserted.
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| B/VI/5 |
Essentials of poetry: Lowell lectures, 1911. By William Allan Neilson. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1912].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Eternal fire. By Calder Willingham. New York : The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1963.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/5 |
The eternal present: the beginnings of architecture. By Siegfried Giedion. New York : Pantheon, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/5 |
The eternal present: the beginnings of art. By Siegfried Giedion. New York : Pantheon, [c1962].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The eternal smile and other stories. By Par Lagerkvist. New York : Random House, 1954.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/2 |
Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse. By Aleksandr Pushkin. Translated from the Russian with a commentary by Vladimir Nabokov. In four volumes. New York :
Pantheon Books, [c1964].
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(Bollingen Series, 72).
Slip case.
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| Deck E |
Europe without Baedeker: Sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England. By Edmund Wilson. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Europe: Or up and down with Schreiber and Baggish. By Richard G. Stern. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/4 |
Eurydice. By Edward Tamm. Canessa, Italy : Rapallo, [c1964].
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Paperback / dust jacket.
Mark on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
The evening of the holiday. By Shirley Hazzard. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The evolution of the machine. By Ritchie Calder. New York : American Heritage Publishing Company, 1968.
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| Deck E |
Evolving mankind's future: The world institute: A problem-solving methodology. By Julius Stulman. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Ex libris carissimis. By Christopher Morley. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932.
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Ralph Waldo Ellison: signature on back free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Walter Williams on front free end paper.
Scrap paper with printed names and advertisement for a Marian Anderson concert (dated 1932) inserted.
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| Deck E |
Ex libris. Compiled by Christopher Morley. A small anthology, printed and bound (and sold) at the First National Book Fair sponsored
by the New York Times and The National Association of Book Publishers. New York : [The Fair], 1936.
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Printed and published at the Book Manufacturers' Institute, held at Rockefeller Center, New York, November 5th to 19th.
Signed by Ralph W. Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/2 |
Exiles return: a literary odyssey of the 1920's. By Malcolm Cowley. New York : Viking Press, 1951.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
Exiles: A play in three acts, including hitherto unpublished notes by the author, discovered after his death. By James Joyce. Introduction by Padraic Colum. New York : The Viking Press, 1951.
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1st Edition limited to 1900 copies for sale and 75 copies for private distribution.
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| B/V/5 |
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. By Walter Kaufman. Edited with an introduction, preface, and new translations by Walter Kaufman. New York : Meridian Books,
1957.
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5th printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison and Milner on half-title.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Explication as criticism: Selected papers from the English Institute 1941-1952. Edited with a foreword by W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. New York : Columbia University Press, 1963.
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| B/VI/3 |
Explorations in communication: an anthology. Edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan. Boston : Beacon Press, [1966].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
The exploring spirit: America & the world then & now. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, 1976.
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1st American Edition.
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| Deck E |
The exquisite corpse. By Alfred Chester. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1967.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Extraterritorial: Papers on literature and the language revolution. By George Steiner. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/1 |
Extreme magic: a novella and other stories. By Hortense Calisher. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Telegram to Ellison inserted.
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| Deck E |
The eye of the story: Selected essays and reviews. By Eudora Welty. New York : Random House, 1977.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
Laid-in card from publisher and newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/1 |
Eyewitness: the Negro in American history. Compiled by William Loren Katz. New York : Pitman Pub., [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/5 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald and his contemporaries. By William Goldhurst. Cleveland; New York : World Publishing Co., [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/I/1 |
F.M. Dostoevsky: dualism and synthesis of the human soul. By Temira Pachmuss. With preface by Harry T. Moore. Carbondale, IL : Souther Illinois University Press, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Marks within.
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| B/I/4 |
A fable. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/5 |
Fables of identity: studies in poetic mythology. By Northrup Frye. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, [c1963].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
The fables of La Fontaine. By Jean de La Fontaine. A complete new translation by Marianne Moore. New York : The Viking Press, 1954.
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| Deck E |
The face of battle. By John Keegan. New York : The Viking Press, 1976.
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| Deck E |
Face of my assassin: A novel of the South today. By Jan Huckins and Carolyn Weston. New York : Random House, 1959.
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1st Printing.
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| X/X/X |
Face of my assassin. By Jan Huckins. New York : Random House, 1959.
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| A/III/2 |
The face of Taiwan. By Fred Foley. Tokyo, Japan : Jesuit Information Bureau, [1959].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
Faces in the crowd: Essays on music, movies and books. By Gary Giddins. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Some faces in the crowd: Short stories by Budd Schulberg. By Budd Schulberg. New York : Random House, 1953.
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1st Printing.
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| B/I/4 |
Fact: monograph series, no 16, July 1938. [London] : [Fact, Ltd.], [1938].
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Includes: "The Spanish war" by Ernest Hemingway.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on table of contents.
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| Deck E |
A fairly good time. By Mavis Gallant. New York : Random House, 1970.
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Advance Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/3 |
Falcon: poems on Soviet themes.New York : Harper and Brothers, 1942. By Genevieve Taggard. Falcon: poems on Soviet themes.New York : Harper and Brothers, 1942.
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Reprint from Harper and Brother edition.
Booklet.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front cover.
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| Deck E |
Falconer. By John Cheever. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The fall into time. By E.M. Cioran. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Introduction by Charles Newman. Chicago : Quadrangle Books,
1970.
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| Deck E |
The fall. By Albert Camus. Translated by Justin O'Brien. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Falling. By Harris Dulany. New York : The McCall Publishing Company, 1971.
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Laid-in letter from author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
False coin. By Harvey Swados. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
False entry. By Hortense Calisher. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1961.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A familiar introduction to heraldry. By Archibald Barrington. London : H.G. Bohn, 1848.
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| B/VI/2 |
Familiar territory: observations on American life. By Joseph Epstein. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
Family installments: Memories of growing up Hispanic. By Edward Rivera. New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982.
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/2 |
Family portrait. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., [c1970].
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1st edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Review for the book inserted.
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| A/III/4 |
Famous Negro music makers. By Langston Hughes. Illustrated with photographs. New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on the occasion of their European trip, on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
A fan's notes: A fictional memoir. By Frederick Exley. New York : Harper & Row, 1968.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in manuscript note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/2 |
Fantasia of the unconscious. By D.H. Lawrence. New York : Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The far field. By Theodore Roethke. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
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| Deck E |
Far from the customary skies: A novel of men on a U.S. destroyer. By Warren Eyster. New York : Random House, 1953.
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1st Printing.
Advance Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/1 |
A far place. By Blair Fuller. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1957].
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1st edition, 1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Envelope with notes inserted.
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| Deck E |
The far side of paradise: A biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. By Arthur Mizenee. Illustrated. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
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Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/1 |
A farewell to arms. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
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[4th printing].
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Notes within.
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| B/II/1 |
A farewell to arms. By Ernest Hemingway. With an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/II/1 |
A farewell to arms. By Ernest Hemingway. Introduction by Ford Maddox Ford. New York : Modern Library, [c1932].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Notes inserted.
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| B/I/4 |
A farewell to arms. By Ernest Hemingway. Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
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Hardcover.
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| A/III/1 |
Farewell to the South. By Robert Coles. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1972].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| Deck E |
The fascination of the abomination: Poems, stories, and essays. By Reed Whittemore. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1963.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The father in primitive psychology. By Bronislaw Malinowski. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1927.
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Psyche Miniatures, General Series No. 8.
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| A/VIII/5 |
Fathers and sons. By Ivan Turgenev. Translated from Russian by Constance Garnett. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Franklin
Center, PA : Franklin Libary, [c1984].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Fathers: A novel in the form of a memoir. By Herbert Gold. New York : Random House, 1966.
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1st Printing.
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| A/IV/2 |
Faulkner and the novelistic imagination. By Robert Dale Parker. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [c1985].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| B/I/3 |
Faulkner at Nagano. Edited by R.A. Jelliffe. Tokyo, Japan : Kenkyusha, Ltd., [ed.1959].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Faulkner at West Point. By William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph L. Fant, III and Robert Ashley with the assistance of other members of the English
Department, United States Military Academy. New York : Random House, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The Faulkner reader. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, 1954.
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| Deck E |
The Faulkner-Cowley file: Letters and memories, 1944-1962. By Malcolm Cowley. New York : The Viking Press, 1966.
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Laid-in note from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/3 |
Faulkner: a biography. By Joseph Blotner. In two volumes. New York : Random House, [c1974].
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Hardcover.
V.1.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
V.2.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/1 |
Faulkner: a biography. By Joseph Blotner. In two volumes. London : Chatto and Windus, 1974.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by David (?) on front free end papers of both volumes.
Package label inserted.
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| B/I/3 |
Faulkner: a collection of critical essays. Edited by Robert Penn Warren. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1966].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the title page.
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| B/I/3 |
Faulkner: the major years: a critical study. By Melville Backman. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/I/3 |
Faulkner's olympian laugh: myth in the novels. By Walter Brylowski. Detroit : Wayne State University Prss, 1968.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/3 |
Faulkner's people: a complete guide and index to characters in the fiction of William Faulkner. By Robert W. Kirk and Martin Klotz. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1963.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Faulkner's search for a South. By Walter Taylor. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [c1983].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/I/4 |
Faulkner's women: myth and the muse. By David Williams. Montreal and London : McGill-Quince University press, 1977.
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Hardcover.
Note from A. Erskine to G. Summer inserted.
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| B/I/2 |
Favor the runner. By J. Richard Kennedy. Cleveland, New York : World Publishing Co., [c1965].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Advertisement for the book and unused publisher's SASE inserted.
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| Deck E |
The favorite game. By Leonard Cohen. New York : The Viking Press, 1963.
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| Deck E |
Favorite meals from Williamsburg: A menu cookbook; Over 200 special recipes for every occasion. Recipes compiled and adapted by Charlotte Turgeon and the staff of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Williamsburg,
VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1982.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The Federal Theatre 1935-1939. By Jane De Hart Mathews. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1967.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Feelgood: A trip in time and out. By Peter de Lissovoy. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/2 |
Feeling and form: a theory of art developed from philosophy in a new key. By Susan K. Langer. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
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[First edition, first printing].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Felled oaks: Conversation with De Gaulle. By Andre Malraux. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
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| Deck E |
Fiction 100: An anthology of short stories. Compiled by James H. Pickering. New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A field guide to the birds east of the Rockies: A completely new guide to all the birds of Eastern and Central North America. By Roger Tory Peterson. Text and illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson. Maps by Virginia Marie Peterson. Fourth Edition.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/5 |
The field of vision. By Wright Morris. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1956].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Field photography: Beginning and advanced techniques. By Alfred A. Blaker. San Francisco, CA : W.H. Freeman and Company, 1976.
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| A/III/5 |
Fields of wonder. By Langston Hughes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/II/3 |
The fifties: from notebooks and diaries of the period. By Edmund Wilson. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. New York : Farrar, Giroux and Strauss, [c1986].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Bookmark with notes and book review about Wilson inserted.
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| Deck E |
Fight night on a sweet Saturday. By Mary Lee Settle. New York : The Viking Press, Inc., 1964.
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Laid-in slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/4 |
Fighting words. Edited by Donald Ogden Stewart. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/5 |
The film sense. By Sergei M. Eisenstein. Translated and edited by Jay Leydan. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1942].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Parts of dust jacket inserted.
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| B/VI/5 |
Film technique: five essays and two addresses. By V.I. Pudovkin. Translated and annotated by Ivor Montagu. Enlarged edition. London : George Newnes, [1935].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| Deck E |
The final beast. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The final beast. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A fine and private place. By Peter S. Beagle. New York : The Viking Press, 1960.
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| A/III/4 |
Fine clothes to the Jew. By Langston Hughes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper, dated 1937.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Finnegans Wake. By James Joyce. New York : Viking Press, 1945.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Obituary of Frank Budgen, Joyce scholar inserted.
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| Deck E |
Fire in the lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. By Frances Fitzgerald. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
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1st Edition.
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
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| A/V/2 |
Fire-bell in the night: the crisis in civil rights. By Oscar Handlin. Boston : Little, Brown and Co, [1964].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Stamped May 18, 1964.
Business card inserted.
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| A/V/3 |
The fireside book of dog stories. By Jack Goodman. New York : Simon and Schuster, [c1943].
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(Armed Services Editions).
Paperback.
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| A/III/1 |
Firespitter. By Jayne Cortez. New York : Bola Press, [c1982].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on flyleaf.
|
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| B/IV/4 |
The firmament of time. By Loren Eisley. New York : Atheneum, 1960.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/4 |
The first book of jazz. By Langston Hughes. Pictures by Cliff Roberts. Music selected by David Martin. Ontario, Canada : Ambassador Books, Ltd,
[c1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author.
Damaged dust jacket inserted.
|
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| B/II/4 |
A first draft version of Finnegan's Wake. By James Joyce. Edited and annotated by David Hayman. Austin : University of Texas Press, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/5 |
First family. By Christopher Davis. New York : Coward-McCann, [c1961].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/III/1 |
The first liberty: a history of the right to vote in America, 1619-1815. By Marchette Chute. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Advanced copy.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| Deck E |
First person America. Selected and edited by Ann Banks. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/1 |
First-person America. Edited by Ann Banks. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/3 |
First-year French: a conversational grammar and reader. By Edmond A. Meras and Mario A. Pei. New York : Dryden Press, [1952].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/5 |
Five stages of Greek religion. By Gilbert Murray. Boston : Beacon Press, [n.d.].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
The five stages of grief. By Linda Pastan. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher and photograph of author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The fixer. By Bernard Malamud. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1966.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Flags in the dust. By William Faulkner. Edited and with an introduction by Douglas Day. New York : Random House, 1973.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The Flamenco guitar. By David George. Madrid, Spain : Society of Spanish Studies, 1969.
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| Deck E |
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A double portrait. By Francis Steegmuller. London : Collins, 1947.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Flaubert the master: A critical and biographical study (1856-1880). Volume two. By Enid Starkie. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st American Edition.
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| A/III/2 |
The flight of Phoenix phugit. By William Felsher. [Evansville, IN] : [Kreiger-Ragsdale], [c1974].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
|
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| B/I/5 |
Flight to Canada. By Ishmael Reed. New York : Random House, [c1976].
|
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Uncorrected proof.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
FLO: A biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. By Laura Wood Roper. Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
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| B/VII/5 |
The floating opera. By John Barth. New York : Appleton, Century, Crofts, [c1956].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/2 |
Flood: a romance of our time. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1964].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Flying home and other stories. By Ralph Ellison. Edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan. New York : Random House, Inc., 1996.
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Inscribed, "To Fanny who made this book possible. 'Look' you said, 'Look'. I looked and found, and here are these wonderful
stories" by editor on half-title page.
|
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| A/II/4 |
Flying home and other stories. By Ralph Ellison. Edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan. New York : Random House, Inc., 1996.
|
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Inscribed, "For Fanny: A preview of the book to have before your birthday. Love and Thanks, John. 10/11/'96" by the editor
on half-title page.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Flying home and other stories. By Ralph Ellison. Edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan. New York : Random House, Inc., 1996.
|
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Inscribed to Fanny by editor on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Focus. By Arthur Miller. New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945.
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|
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| B/VI/2 |
The folklore of capitalism. By Thurman W. Arnold. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1938].
|
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7th printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Stamp of Bernard Fonoroff.
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| Deck E |
Follow me down. By Shelby Foote. New York : The Dial Press, 1950.
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| Deck E |
Fontamara. By Ignazio Silone. Translated by Michael Wharf. New York : Modern Age Books, Inc., 1938.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card and letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The fool killer. By Helen Eustis. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/2 |
The fool: his social and literary history. By Enid Welsford. London : Faber and Faber, [1968].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
|
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| B/IV/5 |
Fools of time: studies in Shakespearean tragedy. By Northrup Frye. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [c1967].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
For a bitter season: Poems. By George Garrett. Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 1967.
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| A/VI/1 |
For love of Imabelle. By Chester Himes. Greenwich, CT : Fawcett, [c1957].
|
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1st printing.
(Gold Medal Books).
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
For luck: Poems 1962-1977. By H.L. Van Brunt. Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1978.
|
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Review Copy.
1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher, photograph of author, and errata list removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
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| Deck E |
For the people: Fighting for public libraries. By Whitney North Seymour, Jr. and Elizabeth N. Layne. Foreword by James Thomas Flexner. Garden City, NY : Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1979.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from author and letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/VII/3 |
For the union dead. By Robert Lowell. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, [1964].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/4 |
For whom the bell tolls. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Marks within.
Second copy.
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| Deck E |
For whom the bell tolls. By Ernest Hemingway. Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, Ltd., 1956.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Annotations found on rear endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/3 |
For whom the bell tolls. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
|
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[First printing, first edition?].
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Part of dust jacket inserted.
|
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| B/II/2 |
The forest of symbols: aspects of Ndembu ritual. By Victor Turner. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1977].
|
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Paperback.
|
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| A/IV/3 |
A forest of tigers. By Robert Shaplen. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author.
|
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| A/VII/3 |
Forewords and afterwords. By W.H. Auden. Selected by Edward Mendelson. New York : Random House, [c1973].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
|
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| B/III/3 |
The forgotten language: an introduction to the understanding of dreams, fairy tales, and myths. By Erich Fromm. New York : Rinehart and Co., [c1951].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
|
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| B/V/1 |
Form and table in American fiction. By Daniel G. Hoffman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1961.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
|
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| A/IV/2 |
Forms of extremity in the modern novel. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Richmond : John Knox Press, [c1965].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on half-title.
|
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| B/VI/5 |
Forms of modern fiction: essays collected in honor of Joseph Warren Beach. By William Van O'Connor. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [c1948].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/1 |
The fortunes of Falstaff. By John Dover Wilson. New York : Macmillan, 1944.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Review copy.
|
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| Deck E |
Four comedies. By Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere. Translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur, Richard. New York : Harper, Brace,
Jonanovich, [c1982].
|
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1st edition.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author on front free end paper.
|
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| B/III/4 |
Four famous Greek plays. By Paul Landis. New York : Modern Library, [c1929].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Four guineas: A journey through West Africa. By Elspeth Huxley. London : The Reprint Society, 1955.
|
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Four plays of Ingmar Bergman. By Ingmar Bergman. Translated from the Swedish by Lars Malmstrom and David Kushner. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1960.
|
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1st Printing.
Laid-in receipt removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Four stages of Renaissance style: Transformation in art and literature 1400-1700. By Wylie Sypher. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955.
|
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Anchor Books Original.
1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
|
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| A/IV/2 |
Four ways of modern poetry. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Richmond : John Knox, [c1965].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
The fourteenth chronicle: Letters and diaries of John Dos Passos. By John Dos Passos. Edited and with a biographical narrative by Townsend Ludington. Boston : Gambit Incorporated, 1973.
|
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Fractions. By Andrew Field. Foreword by Truman Forward. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1969.
|
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1st Printing.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
France: Fin de siecle. By Eugen Weber. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
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|
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| B/IV/4 |
Francis Bacon and the modern dilemma. By Loren Eisley. Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/VII/3 |
A Franz Kafka miscellany: pre-fascist exile. By Franz Kafka. New York : Twice A Year Press, [c1940].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
A Franz Kafka miscellany. By Franz Kafka. New York : Twice a Year Press, 1946.
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| Deck E |
Franz Kafka: Parable and paradox. By Heinz Politzer. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1962.
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| Deck E |
Freedom & civilization. By Bronislaw Malinowski. New York : Roy Publishers, 1944.
|
|
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/I/1 |
Freedom and the tragic life: a study in Dostoevsky. By Vyacheslav Ivanov. New York : Noonday Press, [1952].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Marks within.
|
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| A/V/2 |
Freedom bound. By Henrietta Buckmaster. New York : Macmillan, [c.1965].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| A/VII/1 |
Freedom road. By Howard Fast. New York : Duel, Sloan and Pearce, [c1944].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison "Ralph and Fanny"on inside front free endpaper.
Review of the book and clipping about segregated housing development inserted.
|
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| A/VI/1 |
Freedom summer. By Sally Belfrage. New York : Viking Press, [1965].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
Freedom's advocate: A twenty-five year chronicle. By Aaron Levenstein and William Agar. New York : The Viking Press, 1965.
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| Deck E |
French follies and other follies: 20 stories from The New Yorker. By Francis Steegmuller. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, 1946.
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|
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| B/II/1 |
French poets and novelists. By Henry James. With an introduction by Leon Edel. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [1964].
|
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1st edition.
Paperback.
|
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| A/VIII/1 |
The French quarter: an informal history of the New Orleans underworld. By Herbert Asbury. New York : Pocket Books Inc., [c1936].
|
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Paperback.
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| B/III/3 |
Freud and the 20th century. By Benjamin Nelson. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
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3rd printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| Deck E |
Frick Collection. Handbook. New York : Frick Collection, 1937.
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| B/VI/3 |
Friedrich Engels: a biography. By Gustav Mayer. With an introduction by G. D. H. Cole. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/5 |
From a writer's notebook. By Van Wyck Brooks. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1958.
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on the pastedown.
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| B/II/3 |
From behind the veil: a study of African-American narrative. By Robert B. Stepto. Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c1979].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/IV/3 |
From behind the veil: a study of African-American narrative. By Robert B. Stepto. Second edition. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1991].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by author on title page.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| A/II/3 |
From folklore to fiction: a study of folk heros and rituals in the black American novel. By H. Nigel Thomas. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
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| B/V/3 |
From honey to ashes: introduction to a science of mythology. By Claude Levi-Strauss. Vol. 2. Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. New York : Harper and Row, [c1973].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/2 |
From Memphis and Peking. By Barbara Chase-Riboud. New York : Random House, [c1977].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/V/1 |
From slavery to freedom: a history of Negro Americans. By John Hope Franklin. 3rd edition revised and enlarged. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature on free front end paper.
Envelope inserted.
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| Deck E |
From summer to summer. By Rose Burgunder. Decorations by Rita Fava. New York : The Viking Press, 1965.
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| Deck E |
From the NRF: Essays from the Nouvelle Revue Francais. Edited, selected, and introduced by Justin O'Brien. New York : Meridian Books, Inc., 1959.
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| Deck E |
Front the terrace. By John O'Hara. New York : Random House, 1958.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/4 |
Further studies in a dying culture. By Christopher Caudwell. Edited and with a preface by Edgell Rickword. London : Bodley Head, [1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The future of American politics. By Samuel Lubell. Second edition revised. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1956.
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Paperback, rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
The future of man. By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Translated from the French by Norman Denny. New York : Harper & Row, 1964.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The future of the novel: essays on the art of fiction. By Henry James. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
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1st edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
Hardcover / rebound.
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| Deck E |
The gambler and other stories. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. From the Russian by Constance Garnett. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1923.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence. By Erik H. Erikson. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/5 |
Garcia Lorca. By Edwin Honig. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Books, [c1944].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
(The Makers of Modern Literature).
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/3 |
A general introduction to psychoanalysis. By Sigmund Freud. Authorized English translation of the revised edition by Johann Riviere. With preface by Ernest Jones
and J. Stanley Hall. Garden City, NY : Garden City Publishing Co., [1943].
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Hardcover.
"Mary Lorraine Wendt" written on back pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Generation without farewell. By Kay Boyle. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The generous heart. By Kenneth Fearing. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/2 |
A generous man. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on flyleaf.
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| B/III/4 |
The genesis of Plato's thought. By Alvan Dewes Winspear. New York : Dryden Press, [c1940].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/1 |
Genius and character. By Emil Ludwig. Translated by Kenneth Burke. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1927].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/1 |
The genius of public worship. By Charles H. Heinsath. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.
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[1st printing].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
George: An early autobiography by Emlyn Williams. By Emlyn Williams. New York : Random House, 1961.
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| B/V/4 |
Gertrude Stein in pieces. By Richard Bridgman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Photo inserted.
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| Deck E |
Ghost and flesh. By William Goyen. New York : Random House, 1952.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Gideon's trumpet. By Anthony Lewis. New York : Random House, 1964.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Giles goat-boy or, the revised new syllabus. By John Barth. New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.
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| B/VII/5 |
The Ginger Man. By J.P. Donleavy. With an introduction by Arland Ussher. New York : McDowell, Olensky, [c1958].
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2nd printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Girl in the black raincoat: Variations on a theme. Edited by George Garrett. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966.
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Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/5 |
A glass rose. By Richard Bankowsky. New York : Random House, [c1958].
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Gloria Mundi. By Eleanor Clark. New York : Pantheon Books, 1979.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/5 |
Glory and pathos: responses of nineteenth-century American authors to the Civil War. Edited by Richard Dilworth Rust. Boston : Holbrook Press, [c1970].
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Paperback.
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| A/IV/5 |
The glory of the nightingales. By Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York : MacMillan Co., 1930.
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by W.B.W. (Walter Bowie Williams?).
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| A/VII/5 |
Glory road: the bloody route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg. By Bruce Catton. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1952.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Go down, Moses and other stories. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1942].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / double dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Stamped "library copy" on the foot.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/I/4 |
Go down, Moses, and other stories. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1942].
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with notes about the book. Second copy.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Go tell it on the mountain. By James Baldwin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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1st edition.
Paperback.
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| A/II/5 |
Go tell it on the mountain. By James Baldwin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The goblins of Eros. By Warren Eyster. New York : Random House, 1957.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/3 |
God bless the child. By Kristin Hunter. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1964].
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Review copy.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
God bless the Devil! Liars' bench tales. By James R. Aswell ... [et al.] of the Tennessee Writers' Project. Illustrations by Ann Kelley. Chapel Hill, NC : The
University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
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| Deck E |
God without thunder: An unorthodox defense of orthodoxy. By John Crowe Ransom. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930.
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1st Edition.
Summary of book glued onto front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
God's trombones: Seven Negro sermons in verse. By James Weldon Johnson. Drawings by Aaron Douglas. Lettering by C.B. Falls. New York : The Viking Press, 1927.
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Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/5 |
Gods and heroes: myths and epics of Ancient Greece. By Gustave Schwab. New York : Pantheon Books, [1947].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Stamped Robert Bushnell on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Gods, graves, & Scholars: The story of Archaeology. By C.W. Ceram. Translated from the German by E. B. Garside. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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| Deck E |
Goethe's popular works. By Thomas Carlyle. The University Edition. Edited and revised by Dr. F.H. Hedge and Prof. L. Noa. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
and Travels. From the German. Boston : Estes and Lauriat, 1884.
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| B/III/2 |
Gogol. By Janko Lavrin. London : George Routledge and Sons, [1925?].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Going away: A report, a memoir. By Clancy Sigal. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Going down. By David Markson. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Going to Chicago: A year on the Chicago Blues scene. Edited and with an introduction by Laurence J. Hyman. Photographs by Stephen Green. San Francisco, CA : Woodford Publishing,
1990.
|
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1st Printing.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Going to the territory. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1986.
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1st Edition.
Autographed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| Deck E |
Going to the Territory. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, [c1986].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
A/II/4.
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| A/II/2 |
Going to the Territory. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, [1987].
|
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1st Vintage Books edition.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Going to the territory. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Vintage Books / Random House, 1987.
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Inscribed to Fanny by the author on title page.
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| B/VI/1 |
The golden bough: a study in magic and religions. By James George Frazer. Abridged edition. New York : Macmillan, 1947.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/V/3 |
The golden day: a study in American experience and culture. By Lewis Mumford. New York : Horace Liveright, 1929.
|
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Marked sixth printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Goldfinger. By Ian Fleming. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1959.
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| A/VI/4 |
Gomillion versus Lightfoot: the Tuskegee Gerrymander Case. By Bernard Taper. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, [c1962].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| A/V/5 |
The good earth. By Pearl S. Buck. Illustrated by Barron Storey. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| B/V/4 |
Good intentions. By Ogden Nash. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1942].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The good soldier: A tale of passion. By Ford Madox Ford. With an interpretation by Mark Schorer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
|
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1st Borzoi Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/2 |
Good times poems. By Lucille Clifton. New York : Random House, [c1969].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
|
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| B/VII/2 |
Good-bye, twilight: songs of the struggle in Ireland. Compiled by Leslie H. Daiken. London : Lawrence and Wishart, [1936].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/2 |
Goodbye to Uncle Tom. By J.C. Furnas. New York : William Sloane, 1956.
|
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2nd printing.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Gorky park. By Martin Cruz Smith. Special Readers Edition. New York : Random House, 1981.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher also has note possibly to Howard Cosell from Ellison as well as other notes not in Ellison's
hand.
Item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The gospel witch. By Lyon Phelps. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1955.
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1st Edition.
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| B/III/4 |
Graded lessons in English: an elementary English grammar. By Alonzo Reed and Brainard Kellogg. Consisting of one hundred practical lessons, carefully graded and adapted to the classroom.
New York : Clark and Maynard, 1877.
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Hardcover.
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| A/VII/3 |
A grammar of motives. By Kenneth Burke. New York : Prentice-Hall, 1945.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes on same page.
Bookshop label on back pastedown.
Marks on list of titles.
Few marks within. Spine of cloth binding and parts of dust jacket inserted.
Reprint of "The Five Master Terms" by Burke from The 20th Century English, Published by Philosophic Library.
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| A/VII/3 |
A grammar of motives. By Kenneth Burke. New York : Prentice-Hall, 1945.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Bookshop label and price mark.
Few notes within - probably not Ralph Ellison's.
Second copy.
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| Deck E |
A grammar of the film: An analysis of film technique. By Raymond Spottiswoode. London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 1935.
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| A/VII/2 |
The grand parade. By Julian Mayfield. New York : Vanguard Press, Inc., [c1961].
|
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Softbound, dust jacket . Advance copy?.
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| A/VII/5 |
Grant moves South. By Bruce Catton. With maps by Samuel H. Bryant. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1960].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Price mark on front free end paper.
|
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| Deck E |
The grapes of wrath. By John Steinbeck. New York : The Viking Press, 1939.
|
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph W. Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
The grapes of wrath. By John Steinbeck. Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. New York : The Heritage Press, 1940.
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| Deck E |
The grass harp. By Truman Capote. New York : Random House, 1951.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Gravity and grace. By Simone Weil. Introduction by Gustave Thibon. Translated by Arthur Wills. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952.
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| Deck E |
Great American detective stories. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Anthony Boucher. Cleveland, OH : The World Publishing Company, 1945.
|
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Laid-in Christmas card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
The great American spectaculars: the Kentucky Derby, Mardi Gras and other days of celebration. By Jack Ludwig. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.
|
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper by the author.
|
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| Deck E |
The great deep: The sea and its thresholds. By James Hamilton-Paterson. New York : Random House, 1992.
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
Great French short novels. Edited with an introduction by F.W. Dupee. New York : The Dial Press, 1952.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/3 |
The Great Gatsby. By Francis Scott Fitzgerald. New York : Collector's Reprints, reprint of Charles Scribner's Sons edition, 1925, [c1953,
renewed].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Slip case.
|
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| B/IV/5 |
The Great Gatsby. By Francis Scott Fitzgerald. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front pastedown.
Notes within.
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| A/IV/1 |
The great hockey thaw, or, the Russians are here! By Jack Ludwig. Illustrations by Aislin. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1974.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
Signed by the author on title page.
|
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| B/VI/1 |
The great offensive: the strategy of coalition warfare. By Max Werner. Translated by Heinz and Ruth Norden. New York : Viking Press, 1943.
|
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Book club edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
The great prince died. By Bernard Wolfe. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959.
|
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Laid-in hand-written note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
The great speckled bird and other stories. By P.H. Lowrey. Illustrations by Paula Girard. Chicago : Henry Regnery Co., 1964.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| Deck E |
The great speckled bird and other stories. By P.H. Lowrey. Illustrations by Paula Gerard. Chicago, IL : Henry Regnery Company, 1964.
|
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/2 |
Great Tom: notes towards the definition of T.S. Eliot. By T.S. Matthews. New York : Harper and Row, [c1974].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
|
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| Deck E |
The great white hope. By Howard Sackler. New York : The Dial Press, Inc., 1968.
|
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Uncorrected Galleys.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
The greatest problem and other essays. By F.L. Lucas. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1961.
|
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1st Printing.
|
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| B/III/5 |
The Greek Myths. By Robert Graves. In two volumes. Baltimore : Penguin Books, [c1955].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Greek pottery. By Arthur Lane. London : Faber and Faber, 1948.
|
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Inscribed on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/4 |
Greek tragedy: a literary study. By H.D.F. Kitto. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1954.
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| B/I/4 |
Green hills of Africa. By Ernest Hemingway. Decoration by Edward Chenton. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| Deck E |
A green tree in Gedde. By Alan Sharp. New York : The New American Library, 1965.
|
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AN NAL WORLD BOOK.
1st Printing.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/III/1 |
The green tree of democracy. By Marchette Chute. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., [c1971].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
A grossery of limericks. By Isaac Asimov and John Ciardi. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| Deck E |
The groves of academe. By Mary McCarthy. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| Deck E |
Growing up absurd: Problems of youth in the organized system. By Paul Goodman. New York : Random House, 1960.
|
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1st Printing.
|
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| Deck E |
Guard of honor. By James Gould Cozzens. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| Deck E |
Guinea's captive kings: British anti-slavery literature of the 18th century. By Wylie Sypher. Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, 1942.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/V/5 |
Gulliver's travels. By Jonathan Swift. With the illustrations of Thomas Morten. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| Deck E |
The Gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man. By Marshall McLuhan. [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, 1962.
|
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1st U.S.A. Edition.
Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
|
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| B/V/2 |
Half a truth is better than none: some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and the American experience. By Joan A. Kouwenhoven. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [c1982].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
|
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| Deck E |
Half of paradise. By James Lee Burke. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
|
|
1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/V/3 |
A half-century of conflict. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part six. In two volumes. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
|
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
|
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| A/VIII/2 |
The Hamlet. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, 1940.
|
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Note: "Bought at a lending library located on west side of Broadway and 148th st. sometime during the early 1980's" on the
front free end paper.
With lending library label on the same page.
Part of dust jacket inserted.
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| Deck E |
The handy-volume Shakespeare: Vol. IV. By William Shakespeare. New York : Scribner, Welford and Co., 1869.
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| Deck E |
The handy-volume Shakespeare: Vol. XI. By William Shakespeare. New York : Scribner, Welford and Co., 1869.
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|
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| Deck E |
Hangsman. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Farrar, Strauss and Young, [c1951].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| A/II/2 |
Harbrace college reader: brave words for a startling occasion. Edited by Mark Schorer, Philip Durham, and Everett L. Jonas. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, [c1972].
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| Deck E |
The hard blue sky. By Shirley Ann Grau. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Harlem gallery: book I, the curator. By Melvin B. Tolson. With an introduction by Karl Shapiro. New York : Twayne Publishers, [1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/5 |
Harlem Renaissance. By Nathan Irving Huggins. New York : Oxford University Press, [c1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Harmony and instrumentation. The principles of harmony with practical instruction in arranging music for orchestras and military
bands. By Oscar Coon. New York : Carl Fischer, Inc., [1883].
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Signed by Ralph Ellison inside cover and on front free endpaper as well as on rear endpaper.
Stamps on front free endpaper is from Jenkins Music Company in Oklahoma City.
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| Deck E |
Harpers ferry: A play about John Brown. By Barrie Stavis. Introduction by Tyrone Guthrie. New York : A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1967.
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Inscribed to Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Harry, the rat with women. By Jules Feiffer. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963.
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| A/II/3 |
Harvard guide to contemporary American writing. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1979.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The Hasselblad way: The Hasselblad photographer's companion. By H. Freytag. Translated and adapted by L.A. Mannheim. New York : Focal Press Limited, 1968.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The haunting of hill house. By Shirley Jackson. New York : The Viking Press, 1959.
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| B/I/2 |
Have you been to the river? By Chancellor Wellsame. New York : Exposition Press, [c1952].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Hawthorne. By Henry James. Ithaca, NY : Great Seal Books, a division of Cornell University Press, [1956].
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Hardcover / rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Marks within.
Page numbers marked front free end paper and on back pastedown.
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| B/II/2 |
Hawthorne. By Henry James. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., [n.d.].
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Paperback.
Notes within.
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| B/V/1 |
Hawthorne. By James T. Fields. Illustrated. Boston : James R. Osgood and Co., 1876.
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Hardcover.
(The Vest-pocket series).
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/1 |
Hawthorne's short stories. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Edited and with an introduction by Newton Arvin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Hazard, the painter. By William Meredith. [S.l.] : Ironwood Press, Inc., 1972.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by the author on the cover.
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| Deck E |
He whom a dream hath possessed: Some aspects of the art of religious living. By John Knox. New York : Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932.
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Inscribed, "To Frances McConnell with esteem and friendship-John Knox. January 6, 1933" on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/2 |
Heal the hurt child: an approach through educational therapy with special reference to the extremely deprived Negro child. By Hertha Riese. Foreword by Nathan W. Ackerman. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [c1962].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Healing song for the inner ear: Poems by Michael S. Harper. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana, IL. : University of Illinois Press, 1985.
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Inscribed, "For Fanny, for Ralph: Once again at their bountiful table, of food and sustenance-'he may mean good, but he do
so doggone po'" by the author on front free endpaper.
Author also notes, "[see pages 60-63]" on same page underneath inscription.
Autographed and dated by the author on the title page.
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| A/III/3 |
Healing song for the inner ear. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c1985].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by the author in title page.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on flyleaf.
Sheet with notes and errata inserted.
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| Deck E |
Heart Attacks. By Edmund Skellings. Gainesville, FL : The University Presses of Florida, 1976.
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A Florida Technological University Book.
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| B/VII/1 |
Heart of Europe: an anthology of creative writing in Europe, 1920-1940. Edited by Klaus Mann and Hermann Kesten. With an introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. New York : L.B. Fischer, [c1943].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The heart of India. By Alexander Campbell. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Heart-shape in the dust: poems. By Robert Hayden. Detroit : Falcon Press, [c1940].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Review copy.
Publisher's letter and advertisement brochure for the book inserted.
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| B/III/3 |
The hedgehog and the fox: an essay on Tolstoy's view of history. By Isaiah Berlin. New York : New American Library, [1957].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary leaf.
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| Deck E |
Hegel on tragedy. By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Edited, with an introduction by Anne and Henry Paolucci. Garden City, NY : Doubleday
& Company, Inc., 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Helen Corbitt's Cookbook. By Helen Corbitt. Decorations by Joe Allen Hong. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/5 |
Hemingway and his critics: an international anthology. Edited with an introduction and a checklist of Hemingway criticism by Carlos Baker. New York : Hill and Wang, [1961].
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3rd printing.
Paperback.
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| B/I/5 |
Hemingway: the inward terrain. By Richard Hovey. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/I/5 |
Hemingway: the writer as artist. By Carlos Baker. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1963.
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3rd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks on rear pastedown.
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| B/I/5 |
Hemingway. By Stewart Sanderson. Edinburgh; London : Oliver and Boyd, [1961].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| Deck E |
Hemmingway and Joyce: A study in debt and payment. By Robert E. Gajdusek. Corte Madera, CA : Square Circle Press, 1984.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper by the author.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Henderson the rain king: a novel. By Saul Bellow. New York : Viking Press, 1959.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the conquest of London, 1870-1881. By Leon Edel. Philadephia, New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1962].
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the creative process. By Harold T. McCarthy. New York : Thomas Yoseloff, [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the major phase. By F.O. Matthiessen. New York : Oxford University Press, 1944.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Parts of dust jacket inserted.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the master, 1901-1916. By Leon Edel. Philadelphia, New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1972].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the master, 1901-1916. By Leon Edel. Philadelphia, New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1972].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Second copy.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the middle years, 1882-1895. By Leon Edel. Philadelphia, New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1962].
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the treacherous years, 1895-1901. By Leon Edel. Philadelphia, New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1969].
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James: the untried years, 1843-1870. By Leon Edel. Philadephia, New York : J.B.
|
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Lippincott Co., [c1953].
4th printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Article from New York Times and a dog card inserted.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James. By F.W. Dupee. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1956.
|
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James. By Leon Edel. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1963].
|
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Paperback.
(University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, No.4).
Marks within.
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| B/II/2 |
Henry James. By F.W. Dupee. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1956.
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2nd edition.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Here at the New Yorker. By Brendan Gill. New York : Random House, 1975.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/5 |
Heritage. By Anthony West. New York : Random House, [c1955].
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4th printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/5 |
Herman Melville: a critical study. By Richard V. Chase. New York : MacMillan, 1949.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Herman Melville: A study of his life and times. By Lewis Mumford. London : Secker & Warburg, 1963.
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| A/IV/1 |
Herman Melville: stories, poems, and letters. By Herman Melville. Edited and introduced by R.W.B. Lewis. New York : Dell Publishing, [c1962].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Notes on inside back cover.
|
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| B/II/5 |
Herman Melville. By Newton Arvin. [New York] : William Sloane, [c1950].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
(American Men of Letters Series).
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/4 |
Herndon's Life of Lincoln. By William H. Herndon. Cleveland : Fine Editions Press, [c1949].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The hero and the Blues. By Albert Murray. The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures. Ninth Series. Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 1973.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper by the author.
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| B/I/5 |
The hero in Hemingway's short stories. By Joseph De Falco. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [c1963].
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2nd printing.
(Critical Essays in Modern Literature).
Paperback.
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| B/IV/3 |
The hero with a thousand faces. By Joseph Campbell. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1949].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
Part of dust jacket inserted.
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| Deck E |
The hero: A Study in tradition, myth, and drama, by Lord Raglan (FitzRoy Richard Somerset). By Baron Raglan. New York : Oxford University Press, 1937.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Some underlining and annotation throughout.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/4 |
The heroic temper: studies in Sophoclean tragedy. By Bernard N.W. Knox. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1964.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Herzog. By Saul Bellow. New York : Viking Press, 1964.
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Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/II/5 |
Hidden history: exploring our secret past. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Harper and Row, [c1987].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on flyleaf.
Another inscription on dedication page.
Printed dedication to the Library of Congress.
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| Deck E |
Hidden in plain sight: An examination of the American arts. By Martin Williams. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
|
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Advance Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/IV/3 |
The hidden remnant. By Gerald Sykes. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1962].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
The hideout. By Egon Hostovsky. Translated from the Czech by Fern Long. New York : Random House, 1945.
|
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VI/5 |
Hierarchy and exclusion: images of black people in the nineteenth century. By Albert Boime. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, [n.d.].
|
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Bound manuscript.
Review copy.
Letter from publisher inserted.
|
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| A/IV/1 |
The high cost of prejudice. By Bucklin Moon. New York : Julian Messner, Inc., [c1947].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
The higher animals: A romance. By H.E.F. Donohue. New York : The Viking Press, 1965.
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|
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| B/II/4 |
His eye is on the sparrow: an autobiography by Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels. By Ethel Waters. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1951.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| Deck E |
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a logic of historical thought. By David Hackett Fischer. New York : Harper & Row, 1970.
|
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/1 |
The histories and poems. By William Shakespeare. New York : Modern Library, [1943].
|
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The history and impact of Marxist-Leninist organizational theory: "Useful idiots," "Innocents' clubs," and "Transmission belts." By John P. Roche. Cambridge, MA : Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc., 1984.
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1st Printing.
Inscribed by the author to Fanny and Ralph on title page.
Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
History and politics. By Paul Valery. Translated by Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews. Preface by Francois Valery. Introduction by Salvador
de Madariaga. New York : Pantheon Books / Random House, 1962.
|
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Bollingen Series XLV.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/III/3 |
History is your own heartbeat. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c1971].
|
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
History of American Psychology. By A.A. Roback. New York : Library Publishers, 1952.
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| B/V/5 |
History of Christian philosophy in the Middle Ages. By Etienne Gilson. New York : Random House, [c1955].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
History of English literature. By H.A. Taine. Translated by Henri Van Laun. New York : A.L. Burt Company, n.d.
|
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
A history of Jazz in America. By Barry Ulanov. New York : The Viking Press, 1952.
|
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
History of mankind: Cultural and scientific development. Volume 2. The ancient world: 1200 BC to AD 500. By Luigi Pareti. Assisted by P. Brezzi and L. Petech Translated from the Italian by Guy E.F. Chilver and Sylvia Chilver.
New York : Harper & Row, 1965.
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| B/VI/1 |
A History of Rome: from its origin to 529 AD as told by the Roman historians. Edited by Moses Hadas. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1956.
|
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Paperback, rebound in hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| A/VII/5 |
A history of the South. By Comer Vann Woodward. Vol. 9. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 1951.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Ellison's signature on the front free end paper and a price mark.
|
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| A/V/4 |
The history of Tom Jones: A Foundling. By Henry Fielding. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/I/2 |
Hog butcher. By Ronald L. Fair. New York : Harper, Brace, and World, [c1966].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Advance review copy.
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| Deck E |
The holy sinner. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
|
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/II/5 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet: a poem. By John Berryman. With Pictures by Ben Shahn. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [c1956].
|
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1st printing of 1956.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
|
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| Deck E |
Home fires: An intimate portrait of one middle-class family in postwar America. By Donald Katz. New York : HarperCollins, 1992.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Home from the hill. By William Humphrey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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| Deck E |
Home girls: A Black feminist anthology. Edited by Barbara Smith. New York : Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Inc., 1983.
|
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1st Edition.
1st Printing.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on half-title page.
|
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| B/II/5 |
The home place. By Wright Morris. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1948]. [1st edition, 1st printing].
|
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Hardcover.
Library stamp. Second copy.
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| B/II/5 |
The home place. By Wright Morris. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1948]. [1st edition, 1st printing].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Home town. By Cleveland Amory. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1950.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| Deck E |
A homemade world: The American modernist writers. By Hugh Kenner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The homeplace: Poems. By Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
|
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title page.
|
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| A/I/4 |
Homme invisible, pour qui chantes-tu? By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Magali and Robert Merle. Preface by Robert Merle. Paris : Bernard Grasset, [c1969].
|
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Paperback.
Second copy.
|
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| A/I/4 |
Homme invisible, pour qui chantes-tu? By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Magali and Robert Merle. Preface by Robert Merle. Paris : Bernard Grasset, [c1969].
|
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Paperback.
|
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| B/V/1 |
Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture. By Johan Huizinga. Boston : Beacon Press, [1960].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
Honey Bunch: Her first trip on the ocean. By Helen Louise Thorndyke. Illustrated by Walter S. Rogers. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1927.
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| Deck E |
The honey-pod tree: The life story of Thomas Calhoun Walker. By Thomas Calhoun Walker. New York : The John Day Company, 1958.
|
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
Honorable amendments: Poems by Michael S. Harper. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1995.
|
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Inscribed, "For Fanny From Michael-- 'every goodbye ain't gone'. See p. 64 and 125 which are poems dedicated to you-with
admiration and abiding kinship. Happy birthday" by the author on half-title page.
Autographed and dated by the author on the title page.
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| B/III/3 |
Hope against hope: a memoir. By Nadezhda Mandelstam. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward. With an introduction by Clarence Brown. New York
: Atheneum, 1970.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| Deck E |
Hopi Kachina Dolls: With a key to their identification. By Harold S. Colton. Color photographs by Jack Breed. Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, 1959.
|
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Revised Edition.
|
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| Deck E |
The horn: An authentic and powerful novel about the world of jazz. By John Clellan Holmes. New York : Random House, 1958.
|
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Horn. By Keith Mano. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.
|
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The horseman on the roof. By Jean Giono. Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
|
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1st American Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Hot and cool: Jazz short stories. Edited by Marcela Breton. New York : Penguin Books / New American Library, 1990.
|
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
The hottest water in Chicago. By Gayle Pemberton. Boston : Faber and Faber, 1992.
|
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Inscribed, "For Ralph Ellison-my inspiration" by the author on half-title page.
|
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| A/VIII/4 |
Hound and Horn. April-June, 1934. Camden, NJ : The Hound and Horn, Inc., 1934.
|
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Henry James issue.
Signed on front cover.
|
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| Deck E |
Hours in a library. By Virginia Woolf. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957.
|
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This book privately printed for friends of the publishers as a New Year's greeting.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
A house in the uplands. By Erskine Caldwell. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The house of breath. By William Goyen. New York : Random House, 1950.
|
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
House of many rooms. By Robin White. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1958.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| Deck E |
The house of mirth. By Edith Wharton. With illustrations by A.B. Wenzell. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1905].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Library marks.
|
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| Deck E |
The house of the dead. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. From the Russian by Constance Garnett. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1920.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
The house of the solitary maggot: Part two of the continuous novel Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys. By James Purdy. Garden City, NY : Doubelday & Company, Inc., 1974.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The housebreaker of Shady Hill and other stories. By John Cheever. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1958.
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|
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| A/IV/4 |
How "Bigger" was born: the story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our time, and how it came to be written. By Richard Wright. [S.l.] : Harper and Brothers, [c1940].
|
|
1st edition.
Paperback.
Marks and notes within.
Second copy.
|
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| A/IV/4 |
How "Bigger" was born: the story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our time, and how it came to be written. By Richard Wright. [S.l.] : Harper and Brothers, [c1940].
|
|
1st edition.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Richard Wright on dedication page.
|
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| Deck E |
How came civilization? By Lord Raglan (FitzRoy Richard Somerset). By Baron Raglan. With 8 illustrations and 3 maps. London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1939.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/3 |
"How does a poem mean?": part three of an introduction to literature. By John Ciardi, Herbert Barros, Hubert Heffner, and Wallace Douglas. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [c1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
How the dead count. By Judith Johnson Sherwin. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in photograph of the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/3 |
How to abandon ship. By Philip Richards and John J. Banigan. New York : Cornell Maritime Press, 1942.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/4 |
How to become a musical critic. By Bernard Shaw. Edited with an introduction by Dan H. Laurence. New York : Hill and Wang, [c1961].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
How to teach your baby to read: The gentle revolution. By Glenn Doman. New York : Random House, 1964.
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| Deck E |
How to travel incognito. By Ludwig Bemelmans. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1952.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/5 |
How to write a play: the principles of play construction applied to creative writing and to the understanding of human motives. By Lajos Egri. With an introduction by Gilbert Miller. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1942.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/4 |
How to write. By Gertrude Stein. Barton : Something Else Press, 1973.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Howard Street. By Nathan C. Heard. New York : The Dial Press, 1968.
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Uncorrected Galleys.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/5 |
Human being: a story. By Christopher Morley. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Dolan and Co., 1934.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Walt (Walter Williams?).
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| B/VI/5 |
The human image in dramatic literature. By Francis Fergusson. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, [c1957].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/III/4 |
The human mind. By Karl A. Menninger. New York : Literary Guild of America, 1930.
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Hardcover.
Signature of Fanny Mac McConnell on front free end paper.
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| B/V/5 |
Human nature: a first book in psychology. By Max Schoen. New York : Harper and Brothers, [n.d.].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title and back free end paper.
Notes and marks within.
Advertisement for lecture inserted.
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| B/VII/5 |
The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society. By Norbert Wiener. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., [1954].
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Paperback.
Signature of Ellison on half-title.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Hustling and other hard work in the ghetto. By Bettylou Valentine. New York : The Free Press / The Macmillan Company, 1978.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/2 |
I am the American Negro. By Frank Marshall Davis. Chicago, IL : Black Cat Press, 1937.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
I am! Says the lamb: A joyous book of sense and nonsense verse. By Theodore Roethke. Illustrated by Robert Leydenfrost. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.
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1st Edition.
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| A/V/2 |
"I do so politely": a voice from the South. By Robert Canzoneri. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
I hear America Talking: An illustrated treasury of American words and phrases. By Stuart Berg Flexner. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976.
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A Hudson Group Book.
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| Deck E |
I knock at the door: Swift glances back at things that made me. By Sean O'Casey. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1939.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
I see by my outfit. By Peter S. Beagle. New York : The Viking Press, 1965.
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| Deck E |
I thought of Daisy. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., 1953.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
I, Charlotte Forten, Black and free. By Polly Longsworth. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
I, my ancestor. By Nancy Wilson Ross. New York : Random House, 1950.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/4 |
I'm a stranger here myself. By Ogden Nash. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1938].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
I'm Katherine, a memoir. By W. Warren Harper. [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1995.
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Inscription reads, "For Fanny from Michael by way of my father, Warren, who honored my mother by writing a family memoir
to soothe his grief. 19 Nov 1995.
Photoscape enclosed to tell you who's who in the photos" on front free endpaper.
Laid-in photoscape removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/1 |
Iago: some approaches to the illusion of his motivation. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ibsen: Letters and speeches. By Henrik Ibsen. Edited by Evert Sprinchorn. London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1965.
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| B/VI/5 |
The idea of a theater: a study of ten plays, the art of drama in changing perspective. By Francis Fergusson. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1949.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/1 |
The ideal reader: selected essays. By Jacques Riviére. Edited, translated, and introduced by Blanche A. Price. New York : Meridian Books, [1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The idiot. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated with an introduction by David Magarshak. Baltimore : Penguin Books, [1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with quote inserted.
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| Deck E |
The idiot. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Illustrated by Boardman Robinson. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. New York :
The Modern Library, 1942.
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1st Modern Library Giant Edition.
Signed and dated by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/1 |
Idiots first. By Bernard Malamud. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Co., [1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/I/2 |
The idols and the prey. By John Goodwin. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1953].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
If Beale Street could talk. By James Baldwin. New York : The Dial Press, 1974.
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1st Printing.
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| A/III/3 |
If he hollers let him go: a novel. By Chester Himes. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Dolan and Co., 1945.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/III/3 |
If he hollers let him go. By Chester Himes. New York : Signet, [1949].
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Paperback.
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| A/VI/1 |
If he hollers let him go. By Chester Himes. New York : Signet, [1949].
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Paperback.
Second copy.
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| Deck E |
If morning ever comes. By Anne Tyler. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
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| B/I/1 |
If we must die. By Junius Edwards. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1963.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VIII/5 |
The Iliad. By Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1962].
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1st impression.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/III/5 |
Illuminations. By Walter Benjamin. Edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Harry Zohn. New York : Harcourt,
Brace, and World, [c1968].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Mark of Schweitzer Chair Library.
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| B/IV/3 |
Illusion and reality: a study of the sources of poetry. By Christopher Caudwell. London : Macmillan and Co., 1937.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Illusion in Java. By Gene Fowler. New York : Random House, 1939.
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1st Printing.
Dust jacket torn and laid-into book has been removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The illusionless man: fantasies and meditations. By Allen Wheelis. New York : W.W. Norton, [c1966].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on front free end paper.
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| A/II/5 |
The illusions of a nation: myth and history in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. By John F. Callahan. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Strand bookstore bookmark inserted.
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| Deck E |
An illustrated history of Black Americans. By John Hope Franklin. New York : Time-Life Books, 1970.
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| Deck E |
An illustrated history of Black Americans. By John Hope Franklin. New York : Time-Life Books, 1970.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Ilyitch slept here. By Henry Carlisle. New York : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Ilyitch slept here. By Henry Carlisle. New York : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1965.
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Review Copy? LCCN: 64-22178.
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| B/VI/4 |
Image and idea: twenty essays on literary themes. By Philip Rahv. Revised and enlarged edition. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Paperbook, [1957].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary leaf.
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| A/II/5 |
The image: a guide to pseudo-events in America. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Harper and Row, [c1961].
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1st Harper edition.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| B/V/5 |
The image: knowledge in life and society. By Kenneth E. Boulding. Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, [1961].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| A/III/3 |
Images of Kin: new and selected poems. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c.1977].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by the author on title page.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by author on half-title page.
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| B/IV/3 |
Images of the Negro in American literature. Edited by Seymour L. Gross and John Edward Hardy. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Images of truth: remembrances and criticism. By Glenway Wescott. New York : Harper and Row, [c1962].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/I/4 |
Imaginary interviews. By Andre Gide. Translated from the French by Malcolm Cowley. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1944.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): A collection of critical essays. Edited by Kimberly W. Benston. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978.
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A Spectrum Book.
Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Immigration and the American tradition. Edited by Moses Rischin. The American Heritage Series. Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1976.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The immoralist. By Andre Gide. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/1 |
The imperial theme: further interpretations of Shakespeare's tragedies, including the Roman plays. By G. Wilson Knight. New York : Barnes and Noble, [1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/4 |
Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War: a foreigner's account. By Marquis Adolphe de Chambrun. Translated from the French by General Aldebert de Chambrun. New York : Random House, [c1952].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
In a time between wars: Poems. By Milton Kaplan. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
In any case. By Richard G. Stern. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
In deep. By Bernard Wolfe. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VII/5 |
In dubious battle. By John Steinbeck. New York : Modern Library, [1939].
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1st Modern Library edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
In my place. By Charlayne Hunter-Gault. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
In orbit. By Wright Morris. New York : New American Library, Inc., 1966.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/1 |
In our time. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Horace Liveright, 1925.
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4th printing, December 1929.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Label of bookstore, dust jacket inserted.
|
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| B/I/5 |
In red and black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History. By Eugene D. Genovese. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1971].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
In search of Diaghilev. By Richard Buckle. London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1955.
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Signed by Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/3 |
In search of heresy: American literature in an age of conformity. By John W. Aldridge. New York : McGraw-Hill, [c1956].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/2 |
In search of theater. By Eric Russell Bentley. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
In Sicily. By Elio Vittorini. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Translated by Wilfrid David. New York : New Directions / James Laughlin,
1949.
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| A/II/3 |
In the African-American grain: call-and-response in 20th-century black fiction. By John F. Callahan. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 1990 [c1988].
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2nd edition.
Paperback.
Inscribed by author to Fanny and Ralph Ellison.
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| Deck E |
In the African-American Grain: The pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction. By John F. Callahan. Urbana and Chicago, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1988.
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Inscribed "For Ralph, for Fanny: In cahoots during a decade of friendship" by the author on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/5 |
In the American jungle, 1924-1936. By Waldo Frank. Photographic decorations by William H. Field. New York : Farrar and Rinehart, [c1937].
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Marks and notes within.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/II/3 |
In the cage and other tales. By Henry James. Edited and with an introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1958.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/II/4 |
In the castle of my skin. By George Lamming. With an introduction by Richard Wright. New York : McGraw-Hill., [c1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Article about Lamming inserted.
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| A/VI/5 |
In the hills where her dreams live: poems for Chile, 1973-1980. By Andrew Salkey. Sausolito, CA : Black Scholars Press, [c1981].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
In the Mecca. By Gwendolyn Brooks. New York : Harper & Row, n.d.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| A/VII/1 |
In the Mecca. By Gwendolyn Brooks. New York : Harper and Row Publishers, [c1968].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/VII/4 |
In the midst of life: tales of soldiers and civilians. By Ambrose Bierce. Introduction by George Sterling. New York : Modern Library, [c1927].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/4 |
In the Supreme Court of the United States: October term, 1960. No. 39. James Monroe et al., versus Frank Pape et al. Chicago : United States Law Printing Company, [1960?].
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Paperback.
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| A/II/5 |
In the twelfth year of the war. By Philip Appleman. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [c1970].
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[1st edition].
Hardcover /dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
In their place: White America defines her minorities 1850-1950. Edited by Lewis H. Carlson and George A. Colburn with an introduction by Senator George McGovern. New York : John Wiley
& Sons, Inc., 1972.
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Laid-in letter from George A. Colburn to Ralph Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this
book.
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| B/I/5 |
In white America: a documentary play. By Martin B. Duberman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/V/4 |
Incarnations: poems, 1966-1968. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on title page.
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| B/II/5 |
The inevitable Americans. By John Greenway. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/2 |
The inmost leaf: a selection of essays. By Alfred Kazin. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1955].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The inner city Mother Goose. By Eve Merriam. Visuals by Lawrence Ratzkin. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1969.
|
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on inside cover.
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| B/V/5 |
Insight and outlook: an inquiry into the common foundations of science, art, and social ethics. By Arthur Koestler. New York : Macmillan, 1949.
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The insulted and injured: A novel in four parts and an epilogue by Fyodor Dostoevsky. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. From the Russian by Constance Garnett. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1923.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/1 |
The intellectual hero: studies in the French novel, 1880-1955. By Victor Brombert. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1964].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/VI/1 |
The intelligentsia of Great Britain. By Dmitri Mirsky. Translated by Alec Brown. New York : Covici, Friede Publishers, [c1935].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The interior distance. By Georges Poulet. Translated by Elliott Coleman. Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Internal geography: Poems by Richard Harteis. By Richard Harteis. Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1987.
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Laid-in photocopied note from author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/1 |
The International Who's Who 1984-85. 48th edition. London : Europa Publications, [c.1984].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Includes entry for Ellison.
|
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| A/II/1 |
Interviews with black writers. Edited by John O'Brien. New York : Liveright, [c1973].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Second copy.
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| A/II/1 |
Interviews with black writers. Edited by John O'Brien. New York : Liveright, [c1973].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Introduction to Aristotle. Edited, with a general introduction and introductions to the particular works by Richard McKeon. New York : The Modern
Library / Random House, 1947.
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1st Modern Library Edition.
Annotated throughout.
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| Deck E |
Introduction to literature: Fiction, poetry, drama. 5th Edition. Edited by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman and William Burto. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas. By Aquinas, Saint Thomas. Edited, with an introduction, by Anton C. Pegis. New York : The Modern Library / Random House,
1948.
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1st Modern Library Edition.
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| A/III/2 |
Introduction to satire. By Leonard Feinberg. Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University Press, [1968].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Introduction to the philosophy of history: An essay on the limits of historical objectivity. By Raymond Aron. Translated by George J. Irwin. Boston : Beacon Press, 1962.
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Rear free endpaper has handwritten list of page numbers and corresponding topics.
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| B/I/4 |
Intruder in the dust. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1948].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
The intruder. By Charles Beaumont. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959.
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Laid-in business card from publishing company removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/I/1 |
Invisible man (in ***). By Ralph Ellison. Belgrade : Zadruga, 1954.
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Paperback.
A photocopy of the title page of the book with the inscription on the photocopy: "We have only one copy of this book, which
was handed to Ralph during a European lecture tour. It was a clandestine publication. Urinh a Er. F.E 7/19/ 89."
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible man (in Japanese). By Ralph Ellison. Tokio, Japan : Charles E. Tutte Co., [n.d.].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Second copy.
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| A/I/1 |
Invisible man (in Japanese). By Ralph Ellison. Tokio, Japan : Charles E. Tutte Co., [n.d.].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/I/2 |
Invisible man (In Japanese). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Fukuo Hashimoto. In two volumes. Tokyo, Japan : Hayakawa Shobo and Co., 1961.
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Hardbound, dust jacket.
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| A/II/2 |
Invisible man: race and identity. By Kerry McSweeney. Boston : Twayne; G.K.
|
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Hall, [c1988].
Hardcover.
Letter from the author to Fanny Ellison with reply on verso inclosed.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. With an introduction by John Callahan. London : Penguin Books, 2001.
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Inscribed, "For Fanny, dearest friend with dearest love" by John Callahan on title page.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1972.
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Vintage Books Edition.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, [c1982].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
P.114 marked on the back paste down, there is a correction mark on the page in the text.
Inscribed on the title page.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : The New American Library, 1953.
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A Signet Book.
1st Printing.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible Man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1952.
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Inscribed on title page, "For Fanny, my wife, who helped, encouraged, and suffered me while this book was being written.
With my gratitude and with my love" by Ralph Ellison.
Hardcover.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Vintage Books, [c1989].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : The New American Library, 1964.
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A Signet Book.
Autographed by Ralph Ellison on half-title and title pages.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953.
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Sample Complete Copy.
Two identical copies in Ellison's collection.
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| X/X/X |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1952.
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Signed by Ellison with annotation "My own copy"***.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953.
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Sample Complete Copy.
Autographed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible Man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1952.
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Inscription reads, "To my good friends and in-laws; George and Billie Warren—This novel, which their daughter Fanny not only
believed I could write, but saw to it that I did—Sincerely Ralph March 1952."
Hardcover.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible Man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Vintage Books, [c1989].
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Paperback.
Second copy.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible Man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
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Paperback.
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| A/I/3 |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. Illustrated by Will Harmuth. Franklin Center: Pennsylvania : Franklin Library, 1980.
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Limited edition.
Hardcover.
Signature of Ralph Ellison on the fly leaf.
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| Deck E |
Invisible man. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1952.
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1st Printing.
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| B/IV/4 |
The invisible pyramid. By Loren Eisley. Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Irish illuminated manuscripts of the early Christian period. Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. A Mentor-Unesco Art Book. 1st Printing. New York : The New American Library, Inc.,
1965.
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| Deck E |
Irishfallen fare thee well. By Sean O'Casey. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1949.
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| B/VII/4 |
The ironic German: a study of Thomas Mann. By Erich Heller. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1958].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/2 |
The irrelevant saint. By Reuben H. Lewis. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/II/5 |
Ishmael. By James Baird. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ishmael. By Christopher Davis. New York : Harper & Row, 1967.
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1st U.S. Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The islanders: Poems by Philip Booth. By Philip Booth. New York : The Viking Press, 1961.
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Laid-in slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/3 |
It is later than you think: the need for a militant democracy. By Max Lerner. New York : Viking Press, 1942.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Dust jacket inserted.
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| Deck E |
It is time, Lord. By Fred Chappell. New York : Atheneum, 1963.
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1st Edition.
Two copies in Ellison's collection.
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| A/II/5 |
It's been a long time (and we've come a long way): a history of the Oklahoma black medical providers (the black healers). By Charles James Bate. Muskogee, OK : Huffman Printing Co., [c1986].
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author. Pamphlet inserted.
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| Deck E |
It's hot in here. By Virgil Partch. Edited by Gurney Williams. New York : Robert McBride & Company, 1944.
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| Deck E |
The itinerant. By William Herrick. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Jack Johnson in the ring and out. By Jack Johnson. Special drawings by Edwin William Krauter. Chicago, IL : National Sports Publishing Company, 1927.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Also on front free endpaper is annotation in pencil.
Laid-in piece of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/4 |
Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography. By Jack Johnson. Introductory essays by Dick Schaap and The Lampman. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, [c1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Jacob's ladder. By Kathryn Johnston Noyes. Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1965.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/2 |
James Baldwin: a critical study. By Stanley Macebuh. New York : Third Press, [c1973].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Letter from Macebuh to Ellison inserted.
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| B/II/1 |
The James family: including selections from the writings of Henry James, Sr., William, Henry, and Ellis James. By F.O. Matthiessen. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| B/II/4 |
James Joyce: his way of interpreting the modern world. By W.Y. Tindall. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/II/4 |
James Joyce. By Richard Ellmann. New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| B/II/4 |
James Joyce's hundredth birthday: side and front views. By Richard Ellmann. A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 10, 1982 by Richard Ellmann. Washington, D.C.
: Library of Congress, 1982.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| B/II/3 |
James Joyce's Ulysses: a study. By Stuart Gilbert. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| A/IV/1 |
The Jameses: a family narrative. By R.W.B. Lewis. New York : Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, [c1991].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by "Dick."
New York Times book review inserted.
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| Deck E |
Jamie is my heart's desire. By Alfred Chester. London, WI : Andre Deutsch Limited, 1956.
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Inscribed "For Ralph and Fanny Ellison, Behold another invisible man! With all good wishes" by the author on half-title page.
Autographed by the author on the title page as well.
|
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| A/V/5 |
Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Brontë. Illustrated by Skip Liepke. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Jazz heritage. By Martin Williams. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Inscribed, "For Ralph Ellison-Offered in the hope that he will find some things to enjoy, and , on p. 93ff and 229ff, some
thing more. And perhaps 223ff as well..." by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Jazz makers. Edited by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. New York : Grove Press, Inc., 1957.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Some light underlining throughout.
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| Deck E |
Jazz: A history. By Winthrop Sargeant. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.
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1st McGraw-Hill Paperback Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Jazz: New perspectives on the history of jazz by twelve of the world's foremost jazz critics and scholars. Edited by Nat Hentoff and Albert McCarthy. New York : Grove Press, Inc., 1961.
|
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First Evergreen Edition.
Some underlining and annotation on pages 14-17.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/IV/2 |
Jazz. By Toni Morrison. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, 1992.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Morrison.
Presentation card from Henry Louis Gates inserted.
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| Deck E |
Jean-Paul Sartre: To freedom condemned: A guide to his philosophy. By Justus Streller. Translated with an introduction by Wade Baskin. New York : Philosophical Library, 1960.
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| Deck E |
Jehovah Mafioso. By J. Inchardi. Freeport, [ME] : Sirius Books, 1979.
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Inscribed by the author to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/V/2 |
Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part two. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
|
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
|
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| B/I/3 |
Jesus and fat Tuesday and other short stories. By Colleen J. McElroy. Berkeley, CA : Creative Arts Book Co., 1987.
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Paperback.
Review copy.
|
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| Deck E |
Jiggery pokery: A compendium of double dactyls. Edited by Anthony Hecht and John Hollander. Drawings by Milton Glaser. New York : Atheneum, 1967.
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1st Edition.
|
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| A/III/5 |
Jim Crow's last stand. By Langston Hughes. New York : Negro Publication Society of America, [c1943].
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(Race and culture series, No.2).
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| Deck E |
Joe Gould's secret. By Joseph Mitchell. New York : The Viking Press, 1965.
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Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/IV/3 |
John Brown: the sword and the word. By Barrie Stavis. South Brunswick; New York : A.S. Barnes and Co., [c1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by on the title page.
Stavis' resume inserted.
|
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| A/VI/3 |
John Brown's journey: notes and ruminations on his America and mine. By Albert Fried. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1978.
|
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Uncorrected proof.
Review copy.
Softbound.
Letter from publisher inserted.
|
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| A/VII/1 |
John Henry. By Roark Bradford. Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. New York : Literary Guild, 1931.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Part of dust jacket with name of author and title glued to spine.
Unidentified signature on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
John Quincy Adams: A public life, a private life. By Paul C. Nagel. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
|
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Fanny Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/1 |
Jonah's Gourd vine. By Zora Neale Hurston. With an introduction by Fanny Hurst. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippencott Co., 1934.
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Hardcover.
Inscribed by Hurston to Samuel Stratton.
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| B/VII/4 |
Jordan county: an landscape in narrative. By Shelby Foote. New York : Dial Press, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Josephine Baker: Une vie de toutes les couleurs. Souvenirs recuellis par Andre Rivollet. Edited by B. Arthaud. Grenoble : Allier Pere et Fils, n.d.
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Inscribed on front free endpaper, "Fanny Ellison purchased from a Paris street vendor."
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| Deck E |
The Joshua tree. By Robert Cabot. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The journal of Eugene Delacroix. By Eugene Delacroix. Translated from the French by Walter Pach. New York : Crown Publishers, 1948.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The journal of John Fontaine: An Irish Huguenot son in Spain and Virginia, 1710-1719. By John Fontaine. Edited, with an introduction by Edward Porter Alexander. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, 1972.
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Laid-in letter from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this
book.
|
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| A/VIII/2 |
The journals and miscellaneous notebooks. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [In five volumes]. Vol.4 :1832-1834. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University, [1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The journals and miscellaneous notebooks. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [In five volumes]. Vol.3: 1826-1832. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University, [1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The journals and miscellaneous notebooks. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [In five volumes]. Vol. 1: 1819-1822. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1960.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The journals and miscellaneous notebooks. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [In five volumes]. Vol. 5: 1835-1838. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University, [1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The journals and miscellaneous notebooks. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [In five volumes]. Vol.2: 1822-1826. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University, [1961].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/3 |
The journals of André Gide. By Andre Gide. Translated from French with an introduction and notes by Justin O'Brian. In four volumes. Vol.3. 1928-1939.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/3 |
The journals of André Gide. By Andre Gide. Translated from French with an introduction and notes by Justin O'Brian. In four volumes. Vol.2: 1914-1927.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1948].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/3 |
The journals of André Gide. By Andre Gide. Translated from French with an introduction and notes by Justin O'Brian. In four volumes. Vol.4. 1939-1949.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1951].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/3 |
The journals of André Gide. By Andre Gide. Translated from French with an introduction and notes by Justin O'Brian. In four volumes. Vol.1: 1889-1913.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Joy to Levine! New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. By Norma Stahl Rosen. Joy to Levine! New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/II/3 |
Joyce-again's wake: an analysis of Finnegan's wake. By Bernard Benstock. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
A joyful noise: Poems by Donald Finkel. By Donald Finkel. New York : Atheneum, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VII/2 |
Jubilee. By Margaret Walker. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966.
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Judo for women: A manual of self-defense. By Ruth Horan. Photographs by Bertie McCool. New York : Bonanza Books, 1965.
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Laid-in receipt removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/1 |
Julius Caesar. By William Shakespeare. Edited by T.S. Dorsch. Arden Edition. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1958].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Juneteenth. By Ralph Ellison. Edited by John F. Callahan. New York : Random House, 1999.
|
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1st Edition.
Note on front free endpaper states, "Ralph died April 15,1994."
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| Deck E |
Juneteenth. By Ralph Ellison. Edited by John F. Callahan. With a new preface by Charles Johnson. New York : Vintage Books / Random
House, 2000.
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Inscribed, "For Fanny: Who is everywhere in these pages-visible and invisible. In deepest appreciation. Love," John Callahan.
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| B/VI/4 |
Junior high school English. Book two. By Claudia E. Crumpton. New York : American Book Company, 1928.
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Signed inside front cover by Ralph Ellison and Herbert Maurice Ellison.
Hardcover.
|
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| Deck E |
Just do it: The Nike spirit in the corporate world. By Donald Katz. New York : Random House, 1994.
|
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Paid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/5 |
The Kachina and the White man: a study of the influences of white culture on the Hopi Kachina cult. By Frederick J. Dockstader. Bloomfield Hills, MI : Cranbrook Institute of Science, [1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Kama sutra: The Hindu ritual of love. Complete and unexpurgated. By Vatsyayana. New York : Castle Books, 1963.
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| A/VI/2 |
Kansas City Kitty: Dreambook. [S.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
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Paperback.
Glued lists of bestsellers from Oak Sales on inside front cover and first page.
|
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| Deck E |
The keepers of the house. By Shirley Ann Grau. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/4 |
Kenneth Burke and the drama of human relations. By William H. Rueckert. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society. By Raymond Williams. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
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| A/VI/2 |
The kidnaped and the ransomed. By Kate E.R. Pickard. [New York] : Negro Publication Society of America, 1941.
|
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Hardcover.
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| A/VI/1 |
Killers of the dream. By Lillian Eugenia Smith. New York : W.W. Norton, [c1949].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marked inside.
Lecture pamphlet inserted.
|
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| B/VI/2 |
The king and the corpse: tales of the soul's conquest of evil. By Heinrich Zimmer. Edited by Joseph Campbell. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1948].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/1 |
King Lear. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Kenneth Muir. Based on the edition of W.G. Kraig. Arden Edition. Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press, [1959].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/1 |
King Richard II. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Peter Ure. Arden Edition. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1956].
|
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4th edition, revised and reset.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
King spider: Some aspects of Louis XI of France and his companions. By D.B. Wyndham Lewis. New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., 1929.
|
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Underlined and annotated throughout, including on rear endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Kingsblood royal. By Sinclair Lewis. New York : Random House, 1947.
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| Deck E |
Kinship with all life. By J. Allen Boone. New York : Harper & Row, 1954.
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| Deck E |
Kissing cousins. By Hortense Calisher. New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/I/4 |
Knight's gambit. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1949].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/V/1 |
Kwaidan: stories and studies of strange things. By Lafcardio Hearn. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1906.
|
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Hardcover.
Unidentified signature on front free end paper.
|
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| A/V/2 |
La Salle and the discovery of the great West. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part three. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
|
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
|
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| Deck E |
The lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir. By Richard Hugo. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The lady of the lake: A poem. By Sir Scott Walter. Illustrated Edition. London : Charles Tilt, 1839.
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| B/V/1 |
Lafcadio Hearn. By Elizabeth Stevenson. New York : Macmillan Co., 1961.
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Lamp at midnight: A play about Galileo. By Barrie Stavis. Introduction by Tyrone Guthrie. New York : A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1966.
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Inscribed to Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
The land of Rumbelow: A fable in the form of a novel. By Carlos Baker. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963.
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| Deck E |
The land where the sun dies: A novel of the Seminole Wars. By Henry Carlisle. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975.
|
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/I/1 |
The landlord. By Kristin Hunter. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1966].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| A/II/5 |
The landscape of nightmare: studies in the contemporary American novel. By J. Baumbach. New York : New York University Press, 1965.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
Aticle about Invisible Man inserted.
|
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| A/III/4 |
Langston Hughes: a biography. By Milton Meltzer. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [c1968].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/VI/3 |
Language and myth. By Ernst Cassirer. Translated by Susan K. Langer. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1946].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Language and silence: Essays on language, literature, and the inhuman. By George Steiner. New York : Atheneum, 1967.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/II/2 |
Language as gesture: essays in poetry. By R.P. Blackmur. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1952.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover /dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| A/VII/3 |
Language as symbolic action: essays on life, literature, and method. By Kenneth Burke. Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes within, on front and back endpapers.
Obituary of Kenneth Burke, program of lectures, flyer for poetry reading inserted.
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| Deck E |
Language in America. Edited by Neil Postman, Charles Weingertner, and Terence P. Morgan. New York : Pegasus, 1969.
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Laid-in half of envelope with note on it by Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/3 |
The language of poetry. Edited by Allen Tate. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [c1942].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/5 |
Laocoön. Nathan the wise. Minna Von Barmhelm. By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. London : J.M. Dent and Sons, [1930].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Last essays. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston and Tania and James Stern. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf, 1959.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/4 |
The last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. By James Fenimore Cooper. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| A/VII/2 |
The last place on earth. By Harold T.P. Hayes. New York : Stein and Day, [1977].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
The last resorts. By Cleveland Amory. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1952.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Last stacked deck. By John Lucas. Rome : Agraf, 1966.
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| Deck E |
The late great creature. By Brock Brower. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The late risers: Their masquerade. By Bernard Wolfe. New York : Random House, 1954.
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1st Printing.
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| A/I/3 |
A lathatatlan (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Bartos Tibor. Budapest : Konyvkiado, 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Second copy.
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| A/I/4 |
A lathatatlan (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Bartos Tibor. Budapest : Europa Konyvkiado, 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Third copy.
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| A/I/2 |
A lathatatlan (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Bartos Tibor. Budapest : Europa Konyvkiado, 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
Laughing boy. By Oliver La Farge. New York : The Literary Guild of America, Inc., 1929.
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Signed by Fannie McConnell on both front and rear endpapers.
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| A/III/4 |
Laughing to keep from crying. By Langston Hughes. New York : Henry Holt and Co., [c1952].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/IV/2 |
Laughter: an essay on the meaning of the comic. By Henri Bergson. Authorized translation by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell. New York : Macmillan Co., 1928.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Bookplate of Albert Levert on front pastedown.
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| B/III/1 |
A laurel reader. By Mark Twain. Edited by Edmund Fuller. New York : Dell, [1958].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary page.
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| A/IV/4 |
Lawd today. By Richard Wright. New York : Walker and Co., [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/2 |
Lay my burden down. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Lazarus. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.
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| Deck E |
Le hibou et la poussiquette. By Francis Steegmuller. Freely translated into French from the English of Edward Lear's "The owl and the pussy-cat." Illustrated
by Barbara Cooney. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1961.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/1 |
Leadership, love and aggression. By Allison Davis. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1983].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| B/VII/3 |
The league of frightened philistines and other papers. By James T. Farrell. New York : Vanguard Press, [c1945].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Leah. By Seymour Epstein. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1964.
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| Deck E |
Leap year choice: Selected poems. By John Lucas. Northfield, MN : Carleton College, 1976.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on copyright page.
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| A/VII/1 |
The learning tree. By Gordon Parks. New York : Harper and Row, [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VII/4 |
The leatherstocking saga. By James Fenimore Cooper. Edited by Ellen Nevins. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Leaves of decency. By John Lucas. Winona, MN : Winona Printing Company, 1984.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on back by the author.
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| Deck E |
The left hand is the dreamer. By Nancy Wilson Ross. New York : William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1947.
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1st Printing.
Dust jacket flaps taped onto endpapers.
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| Deck E |
Legacy from the past: A portfolio of eighty-eight original Williamsburg buildings. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1971.
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| A/VII/3 |
The legacy of Kenneth Burke. Edited by Herbert W. Simons and Trevor Melia. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [c1989].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Program of convention on Burke inserted.
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| B/III/1 |
The legacy of the Civil war: meditations on the centennial. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1961].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Shorthand notes on sheet of paper inserted.
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| Deck E |
The legend of John Brown: A biography and a history. By Richard O. Boyer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VI/3 |
The legend of John Brown: a biography and a history. By Richard O. Boyer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| B/VII/5 |
The Leica way: the Leica photographer's companion. By Andrew Matheson. 3rd edition. New York : Focal Press, [1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket enclosed.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A length of rope. By Monroe Engel. New York : Random House, 1952.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Les Etats-Unis d'aujourd'hui par les textes. By H. Cixous. Edited with Marianne Debouzy and Pierre Dommergues. Paris : Armand Colin, 1969.
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Collection U2.
Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on half-title page.
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| A/II/3 |
Les U.S.A. à la Recherche de Leur Identité: Rencontres avec 40 ecrivains americans. By Pierre Dommergues. Paris : Editions Bernard Grasset, [1987, c1967].
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Paperback.
Second copy.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| A/II/1 |
Les U.S.A. à la Recherche de Leur Identite. By Pierre Dommergues. Paris : Bernard Grasset, [1987, c1967].
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Paperback.
Review copy.
Inscribed to Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
Let it come down. By Paul Bowles. New York : Random House, 1952.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in newspaper and magazine clippings removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/5 |
Let me breathe thunder. By William Attaway. New York : Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1939.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/2 |
Let me live. By Angelo Herndon. New York : Random House, [c1937].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
Let not your heart. By James Seay. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 1970.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Let the dead bury their dead and other stories. By Randall Kenan. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1992.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Let us now praise famous men: three tenant families. By James Agee and Walker Evans. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/3 |
Letters from Iceland. By W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. New York : Random House, [c1937].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Paper label on spine.
Part of dust jacket and bookmark inserted.
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| B/V/2 |
The letters of D.H. By D.H. Lawrence. Lawrence. Second Volume, 1916-1923. Edited and with an introduction by Aldous Huxley. Liepzig : Albatross,
[c1939].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Inscribed "France, March 1945."
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| Deck E |
The letters of Edith Wharton. By Edith Wharton. Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on title page.
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| B/V/4 |
The letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941. By Ezra Pound. Edited by D. D. Paige. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1950].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Book advertisement inserted.
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| B/I/1 |
Letters of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky to his family and friends. By Fyodor Dostoevksy. Translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne. New York : Macmillan, [n.d.].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Bookstore labels and price marks.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
The letters of Lenin. By Vladimir Lenin. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937.
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1st American Edition.
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| Deck E |
The letters of Lincoln Steffens: Volume 1: 1889-1919. By Lincoln Steffens. With a memorandum by Carl Sandburg. Edited with introductory notes by Ella Winter and Granville Hicks.
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The letters of Lincoln Steffens: Volume 2: 1920-1936. By Lincoln Steffens. With a memorandum by Carl Sandburg. Edited with introductory notes by Ella Winter and Granville Hicks.
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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1st Edition.
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| B/III/2 |
Letters of Nickolai Gogol. By Nickolai Gogol. Selected and edited by Carl R. Proffer. Translated by Carl R. Proffer in collaboration with Vera Krivoshein.
Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Letters of Noah Webster. By Noah Webster. Edited with an introduction by Harry R. Warfel. New York : Library Publishers, 1953.
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| Deck E |
The letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume 1 (1809-1836). By William Cullen Bryant. Edited by William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss. New York : Fordham University Press,
1975.
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1st Edition; Limited to 1500 copies.
Laid-in receipt for purchase of this book removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/3 |
Letters to Anais Nin. By Henry Miller. Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann. New York : G.P. Putnam Sons, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The letters. By Henry James. Selected and edited by Percy Lubbock. In two volumes. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end papers of both volumes.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Letters. By James Joyce. Edited by Stuart Gilbert. New York : Viking Press, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Letting go. By Philip Roth. New York : Random House, 1962.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Letty Fox: Her luck. By Christina Stead. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in piece of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/4 |
The liberal imagination: essays on literature and society. By Lionel Trilling. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The liberal imagination: Essays on literature and society. By Lionel Trilling. New York : The Viking Press, 1950.
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| Deck E |
Liberte. By Paul Eluard. Translated by Teo Savory. Greensboro, NC : Unicorn Press, 1977.
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| A/VII/1 |
Libretto for the republic of Liberia. By Melvin B. Tolson. New York : Twayne Publishers, [c1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/3 |
Lie down in darkness. By William Styron. Indianapolis, NY : Bobbs-Merrill Co., [c1951].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Styron on front free end paper.
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| B/VI/1 |
Life against death: the psychoanalytic meaning of history. By Norman O. Brown. New York : Random House, [c1959].
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1st printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Life among the savages. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Life among the Surrealists: A memoir. By Matthew Josephson. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The life and death of a Spanish town. By Elliot Paul. New York : Random House, Inc., 1937.
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Inscribed, "For Rose from Ralph" on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/1 |
Life and letters of Henry Lee Higginson. By Bliss Perry. Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, [c1921].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/3 |
Life and times of Frederick Douglas, written by himself. By Frederick Douglas. New York : Pathway Press, [c1941].
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Hardcover.
Notes and marks within.
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| Deck E |
Life in the slow lane: Observations on art, architecture, manners, and other such spectator sports. By Russell Lynes. New York : Cornelia & Michael Bessie Books / HarperCollins, 1991.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper by the author.
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| Deck E |
The life of a Burma surgeon. By Gordon S. Seagrave. Introduction by Chester Bowles. New York : Ballantine Books, 1963.
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Inscribed, "Mrs. Fanny Ellison. Dear Fanny, This one is for you with all my gratitude for your efforts for us. I appreciate
especially your effort to carry on in spite of conflicting instructions. Very sincerely indeed," by the author on front free
endpaper.
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| A/V/2 |
A Life of Francis Parkman. By Charles Haight Farnham. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
The life of George Borrow. By Clement K. Shorter. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d.
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Everyman's Library Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in receipt removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The life of Langston Hughes. Volume I: 1902-1941: I, too, sing America. By Arnold Rampersad. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
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| Deck E |
The life of Richard Wagner. Volume one: 1813-1848. By Ernest Newman. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.
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1st American Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The life of riot and other stories. By Judith Johnson Sherwin. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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Uncorrected Proofs.
Laid-in letters from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The life of Samuel Johnson. By James Boswell. Illustrations by Gordon Ross. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1946.
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| B/IV/2 |
The life of the drama. By Eric Russell Bentley. New York : Atheneum, 1964.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/1 |
Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain. With introduction by Dixon Wecter. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1950].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Life sketches. By John Hersey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
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1st Trade Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
Life studies: New poems and an autobiographical fragment by the author. By Robert Lowell. New York : Vintage Books / Random House, 1959.
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1st Printing.
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| B/VI/2 |
The life-giving myth and other essays. By A.M. Hocart. Edited, with an introduction, by Lord Raglan. New York : Grove Press, [n.d.].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Life-show: How to see theater in life and life in theater. By John Lahr and Jonathan Price. Designed by Stephanie Tevonian. New York : The Viking Press, 1973.
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| Deck E |
A life. By Wright Morris. New York : Harper & Row, 1973.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Light in August. By William Faulkner. New York : Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Two copies in Ellison's library.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Light in August. By William Faulkner. Introduction by Richard H. Rovere. New York : Modern Library, [1950].
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1st Modern Library edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Limbo. By Bernard Wolfe. New York : Random House, [c1952].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Bookmark and advertisement for the book inserted.
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| Deck E |
The lime twig. By John Hawkes. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Books, 1961.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Limericks: Too gross; or, Two dozen dirty dozen stanzas. By Isaac Asimov and John Ciardi. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1973.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Lincoln and the American political tradition: An exhibit in honor of the 175th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Preface to this catalogue by Jennifer B. Lee. Introduction by Mark E. Neely, Jr. Providence, RI : Brown University, 1984.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/1 |
The lion and the fox: the role of the hero in the plays of Shakespeare. By Wyndham Lewis. London : Grant Richards., 1927.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/2 |
The Lion and the Honeycomb: essays in solitude and critique. By R.P. Blackmur. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1955].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Lion in the garden: Interviews with William Faulkner 1926-1962. Edited by James B. Merriwether and Michael Millgate. New York : Random House, 1968.
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| B/I/1 |
Listen to the blues. By Bruce Cook. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1973].
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Paperback.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Listening with the third ear: The inner experience of a psychoanalyst. By Theodor Reik. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949.
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Laid-in card from the Book Find Club removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/4 |
Literary essays. By John-Paul Sartre. New York : Philosophical Library, [1957].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/IV/4 |
The literary fallacy. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1944.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Literary Lectures presented at the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1973.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
Literary opinion in America. By Morton Dauwen Zabel. Revised edition. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1951].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/2 |
Literary reminiscences and autobiographical fragments. By Ivan Turgenev. Translated with an introduction by David Magarshack; an essay on Turgenev by Edmund Wilson. New York
: Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [c1958].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/2 |
The literary situation. By Malcolm Cowley. New York : Viking Press, 1954.
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LCCN 54-7984.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
References to several pages on back pastedown.
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| B/VI/4 |
Literature and dialectical materialism. By John Strachey. New York : Covici, Friede Publishers, [c1934].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Literature and society. By Albert Guerard. Boston : Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1935.
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| B/VII/2 |
The literature of the United States. By Marcus Cunliffe. London : Penguin Books, [1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Little big man. By Thomas Berger. New York : The Dial Press, 1964.
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| B/VII/5 |
The little disturbances of man. By Grace Paley. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1959.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/4 |
The little sister. By Raymond Chandler. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The little time-keeper. By Jon Silkin. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977.
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Review Copy.
1st American Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/4 |
Little women. By Louisa May Alcott. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The live goat. By Cecil Dawkins. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The liveliest art: A panoramic history of the movies. By Arthur Knight. New York : The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1959.
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1st Printing.
A Mentor Book.
Signed by Ellison on very first page.
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| Deck E |
The lively audience: A social history of the visual and performing arts in America 1890-1950. By Russell Lynes. New York : Harper & Row, 1985.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper by author.
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| A/II/1 |
The living novel: a symposium. Edited by Granville Hicks. New York : Macmillan, 1957.
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1st printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
Second copy.
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| A/II/1 |
The living novel: a symposium. Edited by Granville Hicks. New York : Macmillan, 1957.
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1st printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
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| B/V/5 |
The living thoughts of Pascal. By Francois Mauriac. Presented by Francois Mauriac. New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1940.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
(Living Thoughts Library).
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Living time and the integration of the life. By Maurice Nicoll. London : Vincent Stuart, 1959.
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| Deck E |
Lizzie Borden: A dance of death. By Agnes de Mille. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1968.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card or bookmark from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Local color: A sense of place in folk art. By William Ferris. Edited by Brenda McCallum. Foreword by Robert Penn Warren. Developed by the Center for Southern Folklore.
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The Lockwood concern. By John O'Hara. New York : Random House, 1965.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/III/3 |
Lonely crusade. By Chester Himes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The lonely ones. By William Steig. Foreword by Wolcott Gibbs. New York : Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1942.
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Inscribed to Fanny Buford on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/5 |
The lonely quest of Richard Wright. By Michael Fabre. Translated from the French by Isabel Barzun. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1973.
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Uncorrected galley proofs.
Softbound.
Review copy.
Some pages marked on front and back cover.
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| Deck E |
A long and happy life. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
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Advance Copy.
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| Deck E |
A long day's dying. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
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Advance Copy.
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| Deck E |
Long distance. By Penelope Mortimer. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/5 |
The long dream. By Richard Wright. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., [c1958].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The long good-bye. By Raymond Chandler. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
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| Deck E |
A long madness. By Antonio Barolini. Translated from the Italian by Helen Barolini. New York : Pantheon Books, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/2 |
The long night. By Julian Mayfield. New York : Vanguard Press, Inc., [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review of book from Chicago Sun-Times cut out by publisher inserted.
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| A/III/1 |
Long old road. By Horace R. Cayton. New York : Trident Press, 1965.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, with Cayton's address label on half-title.
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| A/IV/3 |
Long view. By Genevieve Taggard. New York : Harper and Brothers, 1942.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
Looking backward: 2000-1887. By Edward Bellamy. London : William Reeves, n.d.
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| Deck E |
Looking...seeing. By Harry Chapin. Drawings by Rob White. Ridgefield, CT : Story Songs Ltd., 1975.
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Inscribed on front free endpaper.
Laid-in letter to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/5 |
Lorca: an appreciation of his poetry. By Roy Campbell. Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes, [1952].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/5 |
Lorca: the poet and his people. By Arturo Barea. Translated from Spanish by Ilsa Barea. New York : Grove Press, [c1949].
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Paperback.
Newspaper column by Max Lerner inserted.
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| B/IV/5 |
Lorca. By Frederico Garcia Lorca. Introduced and edited J.L. Gile. With plain prose translation of each poem. Baltimore : Penguin
Books, [1960].
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Paperback. Signature on half-title.
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| A/V/5 |
Lord Jim: a tale. By Joseph Conrad. Illustrated by Walt Spitzmiller. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].Hardcover.
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| B/I/5 |
Lord of dark places. By Hal Bennett. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Advanced copy.
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| Deck E |
Lord Rochester's monkey: Being the life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester. By Graham Greene. New York : The Viking Press, 1974.
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| B/VII/3 |
Lord Weary's castle and the mills of the Kavanaughs: two volumes of poems. By Robert Lowell. New York : Meridian Books, [1961].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Losing battles. By Eudora Welty. New York : Random House, 1970.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Loss of the self in modern literature and art. By Wylie Sypher. New York : Random House, 1962.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The lost art. By Burton Bernstein. Drawings by James Stavenson. Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Company, 1963.
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| Deck E |
The lost childhood and other essays. By Graham Greene. New York : The Viking Press, 1952.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The lost country. By J.R. Salamanca. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1958.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The lost son and other poems. By Theodore Roethke. London : John Lehmann Ltd., 1949.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The lost steps. By Alejo Carpentier. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
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1st Edition.
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| A/II/5 |
The lost traveler. By Sanora Babb. New York : Reynal and Co., [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| A/III/5 |
The lost weekend. By Charles Jackson. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [c1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/V/2 |
The lost world. By Randall Jarrell. New York : Macmillan, [c1965].
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1st edition.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
The lottery: The adventures of James Harris. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949.
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| Deck E |
Louvre dialogues. By Pierre Schneider. Translated from the French by Patricia Southgate. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Love & like. By Herbert Gold. New York : The Dial Press, 1960.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/5 |
Love among the cannibals. By Wright Morris. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1957].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / double dust jacket.
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| B/VII/3 |
Love and death in the American novel. By Leslie A. Fiedler. Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Co., [1962].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/II/5 |
Love and fame. By John Berryman. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1970.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Presentation card inserted.
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| Deck E |
Love and work. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1968.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Love in the Western world. By Denis de Rougemont. Translated by Montgomery Belgion. Revised and augmented edition. New York : Pantheon Books Inc.,
1956.
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| Deck E |
Love is a bridge. By Charles Bracelen Flood. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953.
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| Deck E |
Love you good, see you later. By Eugene Walter. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964.
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Laid-in note and letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Love's executioner and other tales of psychotherapy. By Irvin D. Yalom. New York : Basic Books, Inc., 1989.
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| Deck E |
The loved and the unloved. By Thomas Hal Phillips. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1955.
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1st Edition.
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| B/I/5 |
Lover man. By Alston Anderson. Foreword by Robert Graves. New York : Pyramid Books, [1960].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Ludwig Feuerbach and the outcome of Classical German philosophy. Marxist Library Volume XV. By Frederick Engels. Edited by C.P. Dutt. New York : International Publishers, 1935.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper and half-title page.
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| A/VI/1 |
The luminous darkness: a personal interpretation of the anatomy of segregation and the ground of hope. By Howard Thurman. New York : Harper and Row, [1965].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Lyric and dramatic Milton: Selected papers from the English Institute. Edited with an introduction by Joseph H. Summers. New York : Columbia University Press, 1965.
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| B/VI/2 |
The machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral idea in America. By Leo Marx. New York : Oxford University Press, 1964.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Madame Bovary. By Gustave Flaubert. New and definitive translation by Francis Steegmuller. New York : Random House, 1957.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/2 |
Made in America: the arts in the modern civilization. By Joan A. Kouwenhoven. Introduction by Mark van Doren. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1948.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/4 |
Madeleine: (et nunc manet in te). By Andre Gide. Translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Justin O'Brian. New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
1952.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Maggie, a girl of the streets and other stories. By Stephen Crane. Edited and with an introduction by Vincent Starrett. New York : Modern Library, [1933].
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1st Modern Library edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Magic and myth of the movies. By Parker Tyler. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1947.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/1 |
The magic barrel. By Bernard Malamud. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Magic into science: The story of Paracelsus. By Henry M. Pachter. New York : Henry Schuman, 1951.
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| Deck E |
The magic striptease. By George Garrett. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Magic, science and religion and other essays. By Bronislaw Malinowski. Selected and with an introduction by Robert Redfield. Glencoe, IL : The Free Press, 1948.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Annotated and underlined throughout.
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| B/VII/2 |
Main currents in American thought: an interpretation of American literature from the beginning to 1920. By Vernon L. Parrington. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1930].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Rosie.
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| Deck E |
Main currents of Western thought: Readings in Western European intellectual history from the Middle Ages to the present. Edited by Franklin Le Van Baumer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Makes me wanna holler: A young Black man in America. By Nathan McCall. New York : Random House, 1994.
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Advance Reader's Edition / Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
The making of an assassin: the life of James Earl Ray. By George McMillan. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1976].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
The Making of Man: An outline of anthropology. Edited by V.F. Calverton. New York : The Modern Library / Random House, 1931.
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| A/V/1 |
The making of the black America: essays in Negro life and history. Edited by August Meier and Elliot Rudwick. New York : Atheneum, [c.1969].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Making things grow: A practical guide for the indoor gardener. By Thalassa Cruso. Illustrations by Grambs Miller. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
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Signed by Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
Handwritten notes on rear free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Malcolm Lowry's volcano: Myth, symbol, Meaning. By David Markson. New York : New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1978.
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| B/VII/5 |
Malcolm. By James Purdy. New York : Avon, [c1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary page.
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| Deck E |
Male and female: A study of the sexes in a changing world. By Margaret Mead. New York : William Morrow & Company, 1949.
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Laid-in card from the Book Find Club removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/4 |
Malraux par lui-même. By Andre Malraux. Paris : Ecrivains de Toujours, [1953].
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Paperback.
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| B/II/4 |
Malraux: a biography. By Axel Madsen. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1976.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/II/4 |
Malraux: an essay in political criticism. By David Wilkinson. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1967.
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Mark of the Schweitzer Chair Library.
Card with note: "Yes, Hickman, but they don't know me" inserted.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Malraux: life and work. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1976]. 1st American edition. By Martine de Courcel. Malraux: life and work. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1976]. 1st American edition.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper. Second copy.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Malraux: life and work. By Martine de Courcel. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1976].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Price mark, bookshop mark.
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| B/II/4 |
Malraux. By Pierre Galante. Translated by Haakon Shevalier. New York : Cowles Book Co, [c1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/II/5 |
Man and boy. By Wright Morris. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
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Advance copy.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
Man and God: Passages chosen and arranged to express a mood about the human and divine. By Victor Gollancz. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
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Laid-in items from the Book-of-the-Month Club removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Man and the Western world. By John Geise. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940.
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| Deck E |
The man from New York: John Quinn and his friends. By B.L. Reid. New York : Oxford University Press, 1968.
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| Deck E |
Man in modern fiction: Some minority opinions on contemporary American writing. By Edmund Fuller. New York : Random House, 1958.
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1st Printing.
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| A/II/1 |
Man in the Fictional Mode. Edited by Hannah Beate Haupt. Evanston, Illinois : McDougal, Little and Company, [c1970].
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Paperback.
Includes: Ralph Ellison's "Flying Home".
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| Deck E |
Man in the glass octopus. By J. Michael Yates. Vancouver, British Columbia : The Sono Nis Press, 1968.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/3 |
Man in the Modern Theater. Edited by Nathan A. Scott. Richmond, VA : John Knox, [c1965].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by Nathan Scott on title page.
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| B/VI/1 |
Man the measure: a new approach to history. By Erich Kahler. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1943].
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Part of dust jacket glued to front pastedown.
Several articles about author glued to final pages.
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| Deck E |
A man to conjure with. By Jonathan Baumbach. New York : Random House, 1965.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in business card from executive editor of publishing company removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
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| A/IV/5 |
The man who lived underground (L'Homme Qui Vivait Sous Terre). By Richard Wright. Preface by Michel Fabre. Translated by Claude-Edmonde Magny. Paris : Aubier-Flammarion, [c1971].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Fabre on half-title.
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| Deck E |
The man who loved children. By Christina Stead. Introduction by Randall Jarrell. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
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| Deck E |
The man who never died: A play about Joe Hill. By Barrie Stavis. Introduction by Pete Seeger. New York : A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc., 1972.
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Inscribed to Ralph by author on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/5 |
The man who saw through heaven and other stories. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1927].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed from Steele to Barr.
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| B/II/4 |
The man with the golden arm. By Nelson Algren. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1949.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Marks within.
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| B/V/5 |
Man, morals, and society: a psycho-analytical study. By J.C. Flugel. New York : International Universities Press, [c1945].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Man's best friend. By William Wegman. Photographs and drawings by William Wegman. Introduction by Laurance Wieder. New York : Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1982.
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| Deck E |
Man's fate. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. New York : Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Man's hope. By Andre Malraux. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair Macdonald. New York : Random House, 1938.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A man's life: An autobiography. By Roger Wilkins. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/3 |
Man's most dangerous myth: the fallacy of race. By Ashley M.F. Montagu. With a forward by Aldous Huxley. New York : Columbia University Press, 1942.
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Hardcover.
Review copy. "Review copy" stamped on pastedown.
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| B/VI/2 |
Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North American from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state. By Peter Farb. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1968.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/1 |
Manchild in the promised land. By Claude Brown. New York : Macmillan, [1965].
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Paperback.
Advance copy.
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| Deck E |
The Manchurian candidate. By Richard Condon. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The mandarins. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated from the French by Leonard M. Friedman. Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Company,
1956.
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1st Edition.
Limited to 500 copies.
Signed by the author on half title page.
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| Deck E |
The Mandelbaum gate. By Muriel Spark. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in business cards from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/2 |
Mandingo. By Kyle Onstott. New York : Fawcett Publications, [c1958].
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2nd printing.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The mansion: A novel of the Snopes family. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, 1959.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Manual de Santeria: El sistema de cultos "Lucumis". By Romulo Lachatanere. La Habana, Cuba : Editorial Caribe, 1942.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/I/4 |
Manusia gaib (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, Inc., 1982.
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Laid-in item housed separately.
Paperback.
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| B/V/3 |
Many long years ago. By Ogden Nash. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1945].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/3 |
Many thousand gone: an American fable. By Ronald L. Fair. New York : Harper, Brace, and World, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VII/2 |
Maps # 3: Poems for John Coltrane. Edited by John Taggarat. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, n.d.
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Limited edition of 500 copies.
Paperback.
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| A/VIII/3 |
The marble faun and a green bough. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1960].
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1st Random House edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/1 |
The marble faun. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [1859?].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The March-Man. By Keith Botsford. New York : The Viking Press, 1964.
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Laid-in business card for interior designer removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Marcus Garvey, Africa and the Universal Negro Improvement Association: A UMUM perspective on concentric activity in the Pan
African world. By James G. Spady. New York : Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1985.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
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| A/VI/2 |
Marie, or, Slavery in the United States. By Gustave De Beaumont. Translated from the French by Barbara Chapman. With an introduction by Alvis L. Tinnin. Stanford,
CA : Stanford University Press, 1958.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/III/5 |
Mariners, renegades and castaways: the story of Herman Melville and the world we live. By C.L.R. James. New York : C.L.R. James, 1953.
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
Note addressed to Ellison inserted.
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| B/III/1 |
Mark Twain and the South. By Arthur G. Pettit. Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, [c1974].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Letter from Johnathan Greene inserted.
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| B/III/1 |
Mark Twain himself: a pictorial biography. By Milton Meltzer. In words and pictures produced by Milton Meltzer. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [c1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/1 |
Mark Twain speaking. By Mark Twain. Edited by Paul Fatout. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/III/1 |
Mark Twain: a collection of critical essays. Edited by Henry Nash Smith. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1963].
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Twentieth-century Views Series.
Paperback.
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| B/III/1 |
Mark Twain: the development of a writer. By Henry Nash Smith. New York : Atheneum, 1967.
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Paperback.
Marks within.
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| B/IV/4 |
Mark Twain's America and Mark Twain at work. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/1 |
Mark Twain's autobiography. By Mark Twain. With an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. In two volumes. New York : Harper and Bros., 1924.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Unidentified signature on the front free end paper and pp. 51 of both volumes.
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| Deck E |
The marmot drive. By John Hersey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Marshall Field III: A biography. By Stephen Becker. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in cards removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/3 |
The Marxist philosophy and the sciences. By J.B.S. Haldane. New York : Random House, [c1939].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Masks & mirrors: Essays in criticism. By Marius Bewley. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/2 |
Masks and mirrors: essays in criticism. By Marius Bewley. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/3 |
The masks of god: creative mythology. By Joseph Campbell. New York : Viking Press, [1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/IV/3 |
The masks of god: occidental mythology. By Joseph Campbell. New York : Viking Press, 1964.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/3 |
The masks of god: oriental mythology. By Joseph Campbell. New York : Viking Press, 1962.
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Hardcover.
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| B/IV/3 |
The masks of god: primitive mythology. By Joseph Campbell. New York : Viking Press, 1959.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
Master builders: a typology of the spirit. By Stefan Zweig. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. New York : Viking Press, 1939.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
Parts of the dust jacket inserted.
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| A/III/5 |
Master minds: portraits of contemporary artists and intellectuals. By Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Macmillan, [c1969].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on half-title.
(Includes a chapter on Ellison).
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| Deck E |
The master of man: The story of a sin. By Hall Caine. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921.
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Signed by Fanny Mae McConnell on rear endpaper.
Signed by Fannie Mae McConnell, along with her address in Chicago on front endpaper.
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| A/V/5 |
Masterpieces of drama. Illustrated by Quentin Fiore. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1984].
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Hardcover.
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| B/IV/5 |
The masters and the slaves: a study in the development of Brazilian civilization. By Gilberto Freyre. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putman. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| A/IV/4 |
Matins. By Edward Tamm. Canessa, Italy : Rapallo, [c1964].
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Paperback / dust jacket.
Mark on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Matrix of man: An illustrated history of urban environment. By Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1968.
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| A/IV/2 |
The matrix: poems, 1960-1970. By N.H. Pritchard. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| A/VI/3 |
Maud Martha: a novel. By Gwendolyn Brooks. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1953].
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1st edition.
Review from New Yorker inserted.
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| Deck E |
Maupassant: A lion in the path. By Francis Steegmuller. New York : Random House, 1949.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The mauve decade: American life at the end of the nineteenth century. By Thomas Beer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
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Laid-in manuscript note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/3 |
Maxim Gorky, writer and revolutionist. By Moissaye J. Olgin. New York : International Publishers, [c1933].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| B/VII/1 |
The maxims of La Rochefoucauld. By Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Translated by Louis Krononberger. New York : Random House, [c1959].
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Mayhew's London: Being selections from 'London Labour and the London Poor'. By Henry Mayhew. Edited by Peter Quennell. London : Spring Books, n.d.
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| Deck E |
McAfee County: A chronicle. By Mark Steadman. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
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Advance Copy.
1st Edition.
Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
McSorley's wonderful saloon. By Joseph Mitchell. Garden City, NY : Blue Ribbon Books, 1944.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/3 |
Meaning in the visual arts: papers in and on art history. By Erwin Panofsky. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1955.
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Paperback, rebound in hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
The meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By A. Powell Davies. New York : The New American Library of World Literature, 1956.
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A Signet Key Book.
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| B/VI/3 |
Meditations on a hobby horse and other essays on the theory of art. By E.H. Gombrich. London : Phaidon Press, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/3 |
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Phillip II. By Fernand Braudel. In two volumes. Translated from the French by Sian Reynolds. New York : Harper and Row, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The medium: New Poems. By Theodore Weiss. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1965.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Meet me in the green glen. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, 1971.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Megalopolis: The urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States. By Jean Gottman. New York : The Twentieth Century Fund / The Plimpton Press, 1961.
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| A/VIII/5 |
The Melville log: a documentary life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891. By Jay Leyda. In two volumes. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1951].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Slip case.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title pages of both volumes.
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| Deck E |
Memoirs from the house of the dead. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Jessie Coulson. London : Oxford University Press, 1956.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The memoirs of a revolutionist: Essays in political criticism. By Dwight Macdonald. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Memoirs. By Clara Malraux. Translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Memoirs. By Tennessee Williams. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Memories of a Catholic girlhood. By Mary McCarthy. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/3 |
Memories, dreams, reflections: recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe. By Carl G. Jung. Translated from the German by Richard and Clyde Winston. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/1 |
Men and ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance. By Johan Huizinga. Translated by James S. Holmes and Hans van Marle. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Men and monuments. By Janet Flanner. New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
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| B/II/1 |
Men at war: the best war stories of all time. Edited with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Based on a plan by William Kozlenko. New York : Berkeley Publishing Corp.,
[1960].
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Paperback.
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| B/II/1 |
Men at war: the best war stories of all time. Edited with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Based on a plan by William Kozlenko. New York : Crown Publishers, [c1942].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Men die. By H.L. Humes. New York : Random House, 1959.
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1st Printing.
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| B/II/1 |
Men without women. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/III/3 |
The menace of the mob. By Dmitri Merejkovski. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Gilbert Guerney. New York : Nicholas L. Brown, 1921.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed from the author to Nathan Young on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Menopause: A guide for women and the men who love them. By Winnifred Berg Cutler, Celso-Ramon Garcia and David A. Edwards. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1983.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/1 |
Merchant of Venice. By William Shakespeare. Edited by John Russell Brown. Arden Edition. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1959].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Merry Christmas, happy New Year. By Phyllis McGinley. Decorations by Ilonka Karasz. New York : The Viking Press, 1958.
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| Deck E |
The merry-go-round. By Carl Van Vechten. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1918.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/2 |
The messenger. By Charles Wright. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Co, [c1963].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| B/VII/3 |
The metamorphic tradition in modern poetry: essays on the work of Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, T.S.
Eliot, Hart Crane, Randall Jarrell, and William Butler Yeats. By M. Bernetta Quinn. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1955.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| Deck E |
Metatheatre: A new view of dramatic form. By Lionel Abel. New York : Hill and Wang, 1963.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Mid-channel: An American chronicle. By Ludwig Lewisohn. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1929.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The middle distance: A comparative history of American imaginative literature: 1919-1932. By John McCormick. New York : The Free Press / The Macmillan Company, 1971.
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Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Middle passage. By Charles Johnson. New York : Atheneum, 1990.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/3 |
Midland: twenty-five years of fiction and poetry. Selected from the writing workshop of the State University of Iowa. Edited by Paul Engle. New York : Random House, [c1961].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Bus ticket stub inserted.
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| B/I/1 |
The Mighty Three: Poushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky. A critical trilogy. By Boris Brasol. New York : William Farquhar Payson, 1934.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/III/3 |
Millions of strange shadows. By Anthony Hecht. New York : Atheneum, 1977.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| A/VIII/2 |
Milton: annual lecture on a master mind. By T.S. Eliot. [Reprint from the The proceedings of the British Academy, Vol.33. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1948].
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| B/VI/4 |
Mimesis: the representation of reality in Western literature. By Erich Auerbach. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1953.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/5 |
The mind and heart of love: lion and unicorn: a study in eros and agape. By M.C. D'Arcy. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/VII/5 |
The mind of the South. By Wilbur J. Cash. Garden City, New York : Doubleday and Company, 1954.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
A note from Ralph Ellison to Fanny inserted.
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| Deck E |
The mind-reader: new poems. By Richard Wilbur. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Inscribed "with compliments of Wilbur".
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| B/V/2 |
Mind: an essay on human feeling. By Susan K. Langer. In two volumes. Vol 2. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/2 |
Mind: an essay on human feeling. By Susan K. Langer. In two volumes. Vol.1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The mind's fate: Ways of seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. By Robert Coles. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1975.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st Edition.
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| A/VI/5 |
The minority presence in American literature 1600-1900: a reader and course guide. Edited by Philip Butcher. In two volumes. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, [c1977].
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Paperback.
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| B/VI/3 |
Miracle at Philadelphia: the story of the constitutional convention, May-September, 1787. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1966].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
Mirrors of man in existentialism. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New York : Collins, [c1978].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Note from the author inserted.
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| A/IV/4 |
The misanthrope: a comedy in five acts, 1666. By Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere. Done into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Drawings by Enrico Arno. New York :
Harper, Brace and Co., [c1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Miss Muriel and other stories. By Ann Petry. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971.
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Uncorrected galley proof.
Softbound.
Review copy.
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| A/VI/3 |
Mississippi: the closed society. By James W. Silver. New York : Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., [c1964].
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1st edition.
Advanced copy.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Mistress to an age: A life of Madame de Stael. By J. Christopher Herold. New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Moby Dick, or, the white whale. By Herman Melville. Boston : L.C. Page and Co., [c1930].
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison from Fanny, 1944.
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| B/II/5 |
Moby Dick: Ishmael's mighty book. By Kerry McSweeney. Boston : Twayne, [c1986].
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Paperback.
Notes on half-title.
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| B/VII/4 |
Moderate table and other poems. By Marguerite Young. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, [c1944].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Modern Age literature. Second Edition. Compiled and edited by Leonard Lief and James F. Light. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1972.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The modern century: The Whidden lectures 1967. By Northrop Frye. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1967.
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| Deck E |
Modern education: A critique of its fundamental ideas. By Otto Rank. Translated from the German by Mabel E. Moxon. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| X/X/X |
Modern first Year Algebra. By E. Wells. Boston, New York : D.C. Heath and Company, [c1923].
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Signed by Fanny Mcconnelly.
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| B/VII/1 |
Modern French literature, 1870-1940. By Denis Saurat. London : J.M.
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Dent and Sons, [c1946].
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Modern Language Association of America. MLA handbook for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations. New York : Modern Language Association of America,
1977.
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1st Edition: 1st Printing.
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| B/IV/4 |
The modern movement: one hundred key books from England, France, and America, 1880-1950. By Cyril Connolly. New York : Atheneum, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Modern Negro art. By James A. Porter. With eighty-five halftone plates. New York : The Dryden Press, 1943.
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Review Copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Annotation appears on rear free endpaper.
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| A/II/3 |
The modern psychological novel. By Leon Edel. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, 1964.
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Paperback.
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| B/IV/3 |
Modern rhetoric. By Cleaneth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1949].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
The modern tradition: backgrounds of modern literature. Edited by Richard Ellmann and Charles Fiedelson. New York : Oxford University Press, 1965.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Modern tragedy: Essays on the idea of tragedy in life and in the drama, and on modern tragic writing from Ibsen to Tennessee
Williams. By Raymond Williams. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1966.
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| B/II/2 |
Mojo hand. By Jane Phillips. New York : Trident Press, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/II/1 |
A Momentary Stay: a short story collection. Edited by Geraldine Murphy. New York : Harper and Row, [c1972].
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Paperback.
Includes Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game.".
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| Deck E |
The monkey watcher. By Robert Towers. New York : Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1964.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The monogamist. By Thomas Gallagher. New York : Random House, 1955.
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1st Printing.
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| A/III/5 |
Montage of a dream deferred. By Langston Hughes. New York : Henry Holt and Co., [c1951].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Book dedication to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on the dedication page.
Inscribed and Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author, dated January 27, 1951, Harlem.
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| A/V/3 |
Montcalm and Wolfe. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part seven. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
The moon is down. By John Steinbeck. New York : The Viking Press, 1942.
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Signed by Fanny Buford on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
More opposites. By Richard Wilbur. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in items from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/1 |
More poems. By A.E. Housman. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signature of Fanny Ellison on the pastedown.
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| Deck E |
A morning at the office. By Edgar Mittelholzer. Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books Ltd., 1964.
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Inscribed, "For Ralph, the best novel of another writer who found a form for race, with best wishes, Richard Kostelanetz".
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| Deck E |
The morning of the magicians. By Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. Translated from the French by Rollo Myers. New York : Stein and Day, 1964.
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| Deck E |
Mortal lessons: Notes on the art of surgery. By Richard Selzer. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1976.
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| Deck E |
The mortgaged heart. By Carson McCullers. Edited by Margarita G. Smith. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
Moses Prince of Egypt. By Howard Fast. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1958.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Mosquitoes. By William Faulkner. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1927.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A mote in heaven's eye: Poems. By Donald Finkel. New York : Atheneum, 1975.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VI/4 |
Mother wit from the laughing barrel: readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore. Edited by Alan Dundes. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1972].
|
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Paperback.
|
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| A/III/3 |
A mother's kisses. By Bruce G. Friedman. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1964.
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| B/VII/5 |
The mountain road. By Theodore H. White. New York : William Sloane Associates, 1958.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/5 |
Movable feast. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1964].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/III/3 |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: a biography. By Justin Kaplan. New York : Simon and Schuster, [c1966].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Mr. Dooley's opinions. By F.P. Dunne. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1906.
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Mr. Dooley's Philosophy. By F.P. Dunne. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1906.
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| A/VII/5 |
Mr. Lincoln's army. By Bruce Catton. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., [c1951].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| Deck E |
Mr. Sammler's Planet. By Saul Bellow. New York : The Viking Press, 1970.
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| Deck E |
Murder, Inc.: The story of "the syndicate." By Burton B. and Sid Feder Turkus. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951.
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Laid-in newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The muses are heard. By Truman Capote. New York : Random House, 1956.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Musical biography: or Sketches of the lives and writings of eminent musical characters. By John R. Parker. Boston : Stone & Fovell, 1824.
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Part of title cut out of title page.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The musical life. By Irving Kolodin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
Must we burn de Sade? Translated by Annette Michelson. By Simone de Beauvoir. Bibliography and chronology complied by Paul Dinnage. London : Peter Nevill, [1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/4 |
Mutiny on the Bounty. By Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| A/V/5 |
My Antonia. By Willa Cather. Illustrated by Hodges Soileau. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
My brother Bill: An affectionate reminiscence. By John Faulkner. New York : Trident Press, 1963.
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| B/I/5 |
My brother, Ernest Hemingway. By Leichester Hemingway. Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Co., [c1962].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
My first sixty years: Passion for wisdom. By Lena Beatrice Morton. New York : Philosophical Library, Inc., 1965.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter written to Ralph Ellison by the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
My hope for America. By Lyndon B. Johnson. New York : Random House, 1964.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
My hospital in the hills. By Gordon S. Seagrave. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1955.
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Annotated throughout.
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| Deck E |
My last two thousand years. By Herbert Gold. New York : Random House, 1972.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/2 |
My memories of the Century club, 1919-1958. By William Daniel. [New York] : Century Association, [c1959].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
My new found land. By Dean Brelis. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
My theater: Five plays and an essay. By Andre Gide. Translated from the French by Jackson Mathews. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st American Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Mysteries of motion. By Hortense Calisher. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company Inc., 1983.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Mysteries of the unexplained: How ordinary men and women have experienced the strange, the uncanny, and the incredible. Pleasantville, NY : The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1982.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/5 |
Myth and method: modern theories of fiction. Edited and with an introduction by James E. Miller, Jr. Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 1960.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Marks within.
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| B/VI/1 |
Myth and mythmaking. By Henry A. Murray. Boston : Beacon Press, [c1960].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The myth of Sisyphus and other essays. By Albert Camus. Translated from French by Justin O'Brian. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Invitation from the Istituto Italiano di cultura inserted.
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| B/IV/4 |
The myth of the eternal return. By Mircea Eliade. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/3 |
Myth-making as labor history: Herbert Gutman and the United Mine Workers of America. By Herbert Hill. New York : Human Sciences Press, 1988.
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Reprint from International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.
Vol.2. No.2, Winter 1988.
Inscribed by author on front cover.
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| B/IV/3 |
Myth, dreams, and religion. Edited by Joseph Campbell. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| B/IV/3 |
Myth, dreams, and religion. Edited by Joseph Campbell. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Marks within.
Second copy.
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| A/VI/5 |
Myth, literature and the African world. By Wole Soyinka. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Myth, religion, and mother right. By J.J. Bachofen. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Preface by George Boas. Introduction by Joseph Campbell.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1967.
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84th in a series of works sponsored by and published for Bollingen Foundation.
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| A/V/3 |
Myths after Lincoln. By Lloyd Lewis. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1923.
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(Armed Services Editions).
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Myths and tales of the Southeastern Indians. By John R. Swanton. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology: Bulletin 88. Washington D.C. : United States
Government Printing Office, 1929.
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| A/II/5 |
Myths to live by. By Joseph Campbell. New York : Viking Press, [c1972].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Pamphlet on the first Amendment inserted.
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| Deck E |
N by E. By Rockwell Kent. New York : The Literary Guild, 1930.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Nabokov's dozen: A collection of thirteen stories. By Vladimir Nabokov. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The naked and the dead. By Norman Mailer. New York : Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948.
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| A/I/1 |
Nakymatonmies ( Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Jouko Linturi. Helsinki, Finland : Kustannusosakeyhtio: Tammi, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/I/1 |
Nakymatonmies (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Jouko Linturi. Helsinki, Finland : Kustannusosakeyhtio: Tammi, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Second copy.
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| A/I/4 |
Nakymatonmies (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Jouko Linturi. Helsinki, Finland : Kustannusosakeyhtio: Tammi, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Third copy.
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| Deck E |
The names and faces of heroes. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1963.
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1st Edition.
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| B/V/4 |
Narration: four lectures by Gertrude Stein. By Gertrude Stein. With an introduction by Thorton Wilder. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, [1935].
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Hardcover.
Part of dust jacket glued to front pastedown.
Stamps of Dayton Public Library.
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| Deck E |
Narrative technique: A practical course in literary psychology. By Thomas H. Uzzell and Camelia Waite Uzzell. Third Edition. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
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Annotated on pages 452-459.
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| A/IV/3 |
Nathaniel West: a critical essay. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Grand Rapids, MI : William B. Eerdmans, [c1971].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author.
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| A/III/5 |
Nathaniel West. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1962.
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Paperback.
(University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Series, No. 21).
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on title page.
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| Deck E |
National anthem. By Richard Kluger. New York : Harper & Row, 1969.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/1 |
The national book award: writers on their craft and their world. Introduction by Al Silverman. New York : Book of the Month Club, [c1990].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
National Book Award: Writers on their craft and their world. Introduction by Al Silverman. New York : Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990.
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| B/III/4 |
Native son notes. By Lola Jones Amis. Lincoln, Nebraska : Cliff Notes, [c1971].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison from Lola.
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| Deck E |
Native son. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Brothers, [1940].
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6th edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
A/IV/5.
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| A/IV/4 |
Native son. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Brothers, [1940].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Inscribed to Ralph and Rose from Dick on front free end paper.
Address on back pastedown.
Parts of damaged dust jacket inserted.
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| A/II/3 |
Native sons: a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American Authors. By Edward Margolies. Philadelphia; New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., [c1968].
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1st edition.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
Natural history of New York City. By John Kieran. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Kieran. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.
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Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Nature and man's fate. By Garrett Hardin. New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959.
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Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/5 |
The nature of narrative. By Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg. New York : Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Nausea. By Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, 1949.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/5 |
The necessary angel: essays on reality and the imagination. By Wallace Stevens. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The need for roots: Prelude to a declaration of duties toward mankind. By Simone Weil. Translated by Arthur Wills. Preface by T.S. Eliot. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952.
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| A/IV/3 |
Negative capability: studies in the new literature and the religious situation. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Negritianskoe vozrozhdenie: v soedinennykh shtatakh Ameriki. By Tamara Klavdievna Tsintsadze. Tbilisi : Pub. Sabchota Sakartvelo, 1978.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| A/V/1 |
The Negro American: a documentary history. By Leslie H. Fisher, Jr. and Benjamin Quareles. New York : William Morrow Co, [c.1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review Copy.
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| Deck E |
Negro Americans, what now? New York : The Viking Press, 1934. By James Weldon Johnson. Negro Americans, what now? New York : The Viking Press, 1934.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed to Fanny M. McConnell by author on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/2 |
The Negro and the democratic front. By James W. Ford. New York : International publishers, [c.1938].
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| A/VI/5 |
The Negro caravan: writings by American Negroes. Selected and edited by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, and Ulysses Lee. New York : Dryden Press, [c1941].
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Hardcover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Complimentary card glued to inside front pastedown.
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| A/VI/1 |
The Negro family in the United States. By Edward Franklin Frazier. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1940].
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Hardcover.
Stamp of New York Public Library.
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| A/VI/5 |
Negro folk music, U.S.A. By Harold Courlander. New York : Columbia University Press, 1963.
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LCCN 63-18019.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/4 |
Negro folktales in Michigan. Edited by Richard M. Dorson. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Marks within.
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| A/V/2 |
The Negro freedman: life conditions of the American Negro in the early years after emancipation. By Henderson Hamilton Donald. New York : H. Schuman, [c.1952].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the free front end paper.
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| A/VI/1 |
The Negro in American culture. By Margaret Just Butcher. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/3 |
The Negro in eighteenth-century Williamsburg. By Thad W. Tate. Williamsburg, VA : Colonial Williamsburg; University Press of Virginia, distributor, [c1965].
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Paperback.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/I/5 |
The Negro in eighteenth-century Williamsburg. By Thad W. Tate. Williamsburg, VA : Colonial Williamsburg, University Press of Virginia, distributor, [c1965].
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Paperback.
Second copy.
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| A/V/1 |
The Negro in the United States. By Edward Franklin Frazier. New York : Macmillan Co., [c.1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
Note on the same page.
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| A/VI/1 |
Negro in Virginia: complied by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia. New York : Hastings House, 1940.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/2 |
Negro liberation. By James S. Allen. New York : International Pamphlets, 1935.
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3rd revised edition.
(International Pamphlets, No. 29).
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| A/III/5 |
The Negro mother and other dramatic recitations. By Langston Hughes. With decorations by Prentice Taylor. New York : Golden Stair Press, [c1931].
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Limited edition, hand colored copies.
Paperback.
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| A/VI/5 |
The Negro novel in America. By Robert A. Bone. Revised edition. New Haven : Yale University Press, [c1965].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| A/VI/5 |
Negro orators and their orations. Edited by Carter G Woodson. New York : Russell and Russell, [1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| A/VI/5 |
Negro poetry and drama and the Negro in American fiction. By Sterling Brown. With a new preface by Robert Bone. New York : Atheneum, 1969.
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1st Atheneum edition.
Paperback.
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| A/VI/5 |
Negro poets and their poems. By Robert T. Kerlin. Washington, D.C. : Associated Publishers, [c1923].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Dried flower inserted.
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| A/VI/5 |
The Negro press in the United States. By Frederick G. Detweiler. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1922].
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Hardcover.
Price marks.
Bookmark.
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| A/V/2 |
The Negro question: a selection of writings on civil rights in the South. By George Washington Cable. Garden City, New York : Doubleday, 1958.
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Paperback.
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| A/V/2 |
The Negro revolution in America: what Negroes want, why and how they are fighting, whom they support, what whites think of
them and their demands. By William Brink and Louis Harris. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1964.
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1st printing.
Paperback.
Review Copy.
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| A/VI/2 |
The Negro: catalog. New York : University Place Bookshop, 1983.
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The Negro's Civil war: how American Negroes felt and acted during the war for the union. By James M. McPherson. New York : Pantheon Books, Random House, [c1965].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front pastedown.
Western Union envelope with notes inserted.
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| A/V/2 |
Negroes on the march: a Frenchman's report on the American Negro struggle. By Daniel Guerin. Translated and edited by Duncan Ferguson. London : New Park Publications; New York : G.L. Weissman,
distributor, [1956].
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Paperback.
Review copy.
|
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| A/IV/2 |
The nephew. By James Purdy. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Saul Bellow from the author.
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| B/VII/5 |
Never call retreat. By Joseph Freeman. New York : Farrar and Rinehart, [c1943].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Speech of Hon.Warren Barbour inserted.
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| B/VII/4 |
Never come morning. By Nelson Algren. With an introduction by Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1942].
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/I/1 |
Neviditel'ny` ( Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Luba and Rudolph Pellarovi. [Concluding essay] by Josef Jorab. Praha : Odeon, [1981].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Second copy.
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| A/I/5 |
Neviditel'ny` (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Luba and Rudolph Pellarovi. [Concluding essay] by Josef Jorab. Praha : Odeon, [1981].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Fifth copy, display
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| A/I/4 |
Neviditel'ny` (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Luba and Rudolph Pellarovi. [Concluding essay] by Josef Jorab. Praha : Odeon, [1981].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Fourth copy.
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| A/I/3 |
Neviditel'ny` (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Luba and Rudolph Pellarovi. [Concluding essay] by Josef Jorab. Praha : Odeon, [1981].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Third copy.
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| A/I/1 |
Neviditel'ny` (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Luba and Rudolph Pellarovi. [Concluding essay] by Josef Jorab. Praha : Odeon, [1981].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
An address part of the letter (parcel?) sent to Ralph Ellison by Josef Jorab inserted.
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| A/I/3 |
Neviditel'ny`( Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated (by) Zora Jurakova, 1973. Bratislava : Tatran, 1974.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Second copy.
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| A/I/1 |
Neviditel'ny`(Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated [by] Zora Jurakova, 1973. Bratislava : Tatran, 1974.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/III/5 |
The new American arts. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Collier Books, [c1965].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the editor on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
New and collected poems. By Richard Wilbur. San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher and newspaper clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/3 |
New and selected poems. By William J. Smith. New York : Delacourte Press, A Seymour Lawrence Book, [c1970].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author.
Stamps inserted.
|
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| A/VI/5 |
New black playwrights: an anthology. Edited and with introduction by William Couch, Jr. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [c1968].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
|
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| A/VI/5 |
New black playwrights: an anthology. By William Couch, Jr. Edited and with introduction by William Couch, Jr. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,
[c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/III/3 |
A New England girlhood. By Nancy Hale. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1958].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
An article about Nancy Hale inserted.
|
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| Deck E |
New essays on Invisible Man. By Robert O'Meally. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [1988].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed by author to R.E.
A/II/4.
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| Deck E |
New green world: John Bartram and the early Naturalists. By Josephine Herbst. New York : Hastings House, 1954.
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Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/3 |
"New heav'ns, new earth" - the landscape of contemporary apocalypse. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1973.
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Reprint from The Journal of Religion, Vol.53, No.1, January 1973.
Softbound.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
|
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| A/IV/1 |
A new life. By Bernard Malamud. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [1961].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/III/1 |
New Orleans sketches. By William Faulkner. Edited by Carvel Collins. New York : Random House, [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature of editor on title page.
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| B/I/4 |
New Orleans sketches. By William Faulkner. Introduction by Carvel Collins. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1958.
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/3 |
The new Orpheus: essays towards a Christian poetic. Edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New York : Sheed and Ward, [c1964].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on front free end paper.
|
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| B/VII/3 |
The new republic anthology:1915-1935. By Groff Conklin. Edited by Groff Conklin. Introduction by Bruce Bliven. New York : Dodge Publishing, [c1936].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/4 |
A new song. By Langston Hughes. Introduction by Michael Gold. Frontispiece by Joe Jones. New York : International Workers' Order,
c1938.
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, Oct. 8, 1945.
|
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| A/VI/3 |
New world a-coming: inside Black America. By Roi Ottley. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Envelope from radio station inserted.
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| B/IV/5 |
New world in the tropics: the culture of modern Brazil. By Gilberto Freyre. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/V/2 |
The new world of Negro Americans. By Harold R. Isaacs. New York : John Day Co., [1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
New world writing. Fifth Mentor Selection. New York : The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1954.
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Laid-in photocopy of note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/1 |
New writing. Edited by John Lehmann. With the assistance of Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
1938.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/VII/3 |
New Year letter. By W.H. Auden. New York : Faber and Faber, [1946].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
New York City guide. American Guide Series. New York : Random House, 1939.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The New Yorkers. By Hortense Calisher. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1969.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VII/4 |
Nibelungenlied: the fall of the Nibelungers, otherwise the book of Kriemhild. Translated by William Lettson. London : Williams and Norgate, 1908.
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5th edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marked New York State Library, Albany.
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| B/I/5 |
Nigger heaven. By Carl van Vechten. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
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4th printing.
Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Claude? on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Night at Hogwallow. By Theodore Strauss. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1937.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/4 |
The night country. By Loren Eisley. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1971].
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Special member's edition.
Paperback.
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| B/IV/4 |
The night country. By Loren Eisley. With illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Night flight. By Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Preface by Andre Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. New York : The Century Co., 1932.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in summary and review of this book from the Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. removed and housed separately; filed immediately
adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The night mirror: Poems by John Hollander. By John Hollander. New York : Atheneum, 1971.
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1st Edition.
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| A/III/3 |
The night of the hunter. By Davis Grubb. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1953].
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Limited edition of 1000 signed presentation copies.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Night of the silent drums: A narrative of slave rebellion in the Virgin Islands. By John L. Anderson. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.
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Advance Reading Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/5 |
Night rider. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1939].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Night search. By Jerre Mangione. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1965.
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Laid-in card from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/5 |
Night season. By Robert O'Neal Bristow. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1970.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Nightlines. By John McGahern. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1971.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st American Edition.
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| A/III/3 |
Nightmare begins responsibility. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c1975].
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Paperback.
Signed by the author on the title page.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the half-title page.
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| A/III/3 |
Nightmare begins responsibility. By Michael S. Harper. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [c1975].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Nights and days. By James Merrill. New York : Atheneum, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Nights in the gardens of Brooklyn. By Harvey Swados. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1960.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st Edition.
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| B/VII/4 |
Nightwood. By Djuna Barnes. Introduction by Thomas Stearns Eliot. New York : New Classics, [c1937].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/III/2 |
Nikolai Gogol. By Vladimir Nabokov. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1944].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes within.
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| Deck E |
Nine mysteries (four joyful, four sorrowful, one glorious). By Reynolds Price. [S.l.] : Palaemon Press, 1979.
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1st Edition. Limited to 309 signed copies.
Autographed by the author and inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Nine stories. By J.D. Salinger. New York : The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1954.
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1st Printing.
A Signet Book.
Laid-in manuscript notes removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A nip in the air. By John Betjeman. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1974.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/3 |
No chariot let down: Charleston's free people of color on the eve of the Civil war. Edited by Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [c1984].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/IV/2 |
No day of triumph. By J.Saunders Redding. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1942].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / double dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on flyleaf.
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| A/VIII/1 |
No name in the street. By James Baldwin. New York : Dial Press, 1972.
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Uncorrected galleys.
Softbound.
Cover and detached first page inserted.
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| Deck E |
No voice is wholly lost: Writers and thinkers in war and peace. By Harry Slochower. New York : Creative Age Press, 1945.
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Review Copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card from publisher and piece of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The Nobel Lecture on literature. By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. New York : Harper & Row, 1973.
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1st Edition: only 1350 copies printed as New Year's greeting for friends of the publisher in 1973.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/2 |
Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son. By James Baldwin. New York : Dial Press, [c.1961].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The North American Indians: an account of the American Indians North of Mexico. Complied from Original Sources by Rose A. Palmer. [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Scientific Series, 1929.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Library copy.
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| A/II/1 |
The Norton anthology of short fiction. Edited by R.V. Cassill. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1981].
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2nd edition.
Paperback.
Includes Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game".
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| A/III/5 |
Norwegian folk tales: from the collection of Peter Christian Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe. By Peter Asbjornsen. Illustrated by Erik Werenskiold and Theodore Kittelsen. Translated by Pat Shaw Iversen and Carl Norman.
Oslo : Dreyers Forlag, [1960].
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Hardcover /dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by Iversen.
Address label inserted.
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| Deck E |
Not working: Unskilled youth and displaced adults. New York : The Ford Foundation, 1983.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The notebooks for Crime and Punishment. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Edited and translated by Edward Wasiolek. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Notebooks for The brothers Karamazov. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Edited and translated by Edward Wasiolek. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The notebooks for The Idiot. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Edited and with an introduction by Edward Wasiolek. Translated by Catherine Strelsky. Chicago :
University of Chicago Press, [1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The notebooks for The Possessed. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Edited and with an introduction by Edward Wasiolek. Translated by Victor Terras. Chicago : University
of Chicago Press, [1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/1 |
The notebooks for The Raw Youth. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Edited by Edward Wasiolek. Translated by Victor Terras. Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
[1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Subscription card with a few notes inserted.
|
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| B/II/2 |
The notebooks of Henry James. By Henry James. Edited by F.O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock. New York : Oxford University Press, 1947.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Some marks within.
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| Deck E |
The notebooks of Samuel Coleridge: Volume 1 (1794-1804) in two volumes (Notes and Text). By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. New York : Pantheon Books, 1957.
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Bollingen Series L.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The notebooks of Samuel Coleridge: Volume 2 (1804-1808) in two volumes (Notes and Text). By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. New York : Pantheon Books, 1961.
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Bollingen Series L.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Notebooks, 1942-1951. By Albert Camus. Translated from French and annotated by Justin O'Brian. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Business card inserted.
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| Deck E |
Notes from a dark street. By Edward Adler. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Notes from the century before: A journal from British Columbia. By Edward Hoagland. New York : Random House, 1969.
|
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1st Printing.
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| A/III/2 |
Notes of a hanging judge: essays and reviews, 1979-1989. By Stanley Crouch. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| A/V/2 |
Notes of a native son. By James Baldwin. Boston : Beacon Press, [c.1955].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Ellison's signature on the free front endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Notes on a horsethief. By William Faulkner. Decorations by Elizabeth Calvert. Greenville, MS : The Levee Press, 1950.
|
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This is copy 114 of 950 signed by William Faulkner.
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| A/VIII/2 |
Notes towards the definition of culture. By T.S. Eliot. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1949]. 1st American edition.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/VI/5 |
The novel and the people. By Ralph Fox. London : Cobbett Publishing, [1944].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/IV/4 |
The Novel of Manners in America. By James W. Tuttleton. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1973].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper. Photo inserted.
|
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| B/VI/5 |
The novel: modern essays in criticism. Edited by Robert Murray Davis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1969].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
The novelist and the passion story: A study of Christ figures in Faulkner, Mauriac, Melville, Kazantzakis. By F.W. Dillistone. New York : Sheed & Ward, 1960.
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| B/VI/5 |
Novelists on the novel. By Miriam Allott. New York : Columbia University Press, 1959.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The novels of A.C. Swinburne: Love's Cross-Currents, Lesbia Brandon. By A.C. Swinburne. With an introduction by Edmund Wilson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1962.
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1st Printing.
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| A/IV/3 |
The novels of the Harlem Renaissance: twelve black writers, 1923-1933. By Amritjit Singh. University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author (probably was his student) on title page.
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| Deck E |
The novels of Thomas Love Peacock. By Thomas Love Peacock. London : George Newnes Limited, 1903.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/2 |
Now don't try to reason with me: essays and ironies for a credulous age. By Wayne Booth. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1970].
|
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Paperback.
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| A/VI/1 |
Now is the time. By Lillian Eugenia Smith. New York : Viking Press, 1955.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VII/4 |
Now that April's here and other stories. By Morley Callaghan. New York : Random House, [c1936].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/5 |
Number: the language of science. By Tobias Dantzig. 4th edition revised and augmented. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1956.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| A/I/3 |
O homem que ninguem via (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by H. Silva Letra and Severiano Ferreira. Lisbon, Portugal : Portugalia Editora, [1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Uncut pages.
Third copy.
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| A/I/3 |
O homem que ninguem via (Invisible Man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by H. Silva Letra and Severiano Ferreira. Lisbon, Portugal : Portugalia Editora, [1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Uncut pages.
Second copy.
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| A/I/2 |
O homem que ninguem via (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by H. Silva Letra and Severiano Ferreira. Lisbon, Portugal : Portugalia Editora, [1964].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Uncut pages.
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| Deck E |
O strange new world: American culture: The formative years. By Howard Mumford Jones. New York : The Viking Press, 1964.
|
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Laid-in post card from TIME magazine removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The O'Hara generation: Twenty-two stories by the master, chosen from his first nine volumes, 1935-166. By John O'Hara. New York : Random House, 1969.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The oasis. By Mary McCarthy. New York : Random House, 1949.
|
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Oblomov. By Ivan Goncharov. Translated by Natalie Duddington. Introduction by Ernest Rhys. Everyman's Library No. 878. London
: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1932.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Observations by Mr. Dooley. By F.P. Dunne. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1906.
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| Deck E |
Obsessive images: Symbolism in poetry of the 1930s and 1940s. By Joseph Warren Beach. Edited by William Van O'Connor. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 1960.
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| Deck E |
Octavo. By John Lucas. Winona, MN : Winona Printing Company, 1978.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on back by the author.
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| B/III/4 |
The Odyssey of Homer. By Homer. Translated into English prose by T.E. Shaw. New York : Oxford University Press, [1951].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The odyssey of Kostas Volakis. By Harry Mark Petrakis. New York : David McKay Company, Inc., 1963.
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| A/VIII/5 |
The Odyssey. By Homer. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. With drawings by Hans Erni. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1961.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and history. By Immanuel Velikovsky. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.
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| B/III/4 |
Oedipus myth and complex: a review of psychoanalytic theory. By Patrick Mullahy. Introduction by Erich Fromm. New York : Heritage Press, [c1948].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/III/1 |
Oh what a paradise it seems. By John Cheever. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| A/VIII/1 |
Oklahoma place names. By George H. Shirk. Foreword by Muriel H. Wright. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Norman : University of Oklahoma
Press, [1974].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed on front pastedown.
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| A/II/3 |
Old Abbeville: scenes from the past of a town where old time things are not forgotten. By Lowry Ware. Columbia, SC : SCMAR, 1992.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by the author.
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| Deck E |
Old Abbeville: Scenes of the past of a town where old time things are not forgotten. By Lowry Ware. Columbia, SC : SCMAR, 1992.
|
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
|
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| Deck E |
Old Abbeville: Scenes of the past of a town where old time things are not forgotten. By Lowry Ware. Columbia, SC : SCMAR, 1992.
|
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Autographed by the author on the title page.
Laid-in letter from bookstore removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/1 |
The old man and the sea. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
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[1st edition?].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/I/4 |
The old man. By William Faulkner. New York : New American Library, Signet, [1948].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
|
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| A/VIII/2 |
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. By T.S. Eliot. Drawings by Edward Gorey. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1982].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
A gift card to Mr. and Mrs.
Ellison inserted.
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| Deck E |
Old red and other stories. By Caroline Gordon. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963.
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| A/V/2 |
The old regime in Canada. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part four. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
|
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| B/I/3 |
Old times in Faulkner county. By John B. Cullen in collaboration with Floyd C. Watkins. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [c1961].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Olive of Minerva or the comedy of a cuckold. By Edward Dahlbert. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976.
|
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Bound galley.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| A/V/1 |
The omni-Americans: new perspectives on black experience and American culture. By Albert Murray. New York : Outerbridge and Dienstfrey, [c.1957].
|
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Advertisement for the book, notes on the subscription card inserted.
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| Deck E |
Omnibus of crime. Edited by Dorothy L. Sayers. New York : Payson and Clarke Ltd., 1929.
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| A/VIII/1 |
An omnibus. Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Wooster Stallman. By Stephen Crane. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
|
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1st collected edition.
LCCN 52-6416.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes on back pastedown.
|
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| B/VII/5 |
On aggression. By Konrad Lorenz. Translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, [c1966].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/VII/1 |
On art and literature, 1896-1919. By Marcel Proust. Translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner. New York : Meridian Books, [c1958].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/3 |
On creativity and the unconscious: papers on the psychology of art, literature, love, religion. By Sigmund Freud. Selected with introduction and annotations by Benjamin Nelson. New York : Harper and Brothers, [1958].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary page.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
On literacy: The politics of the word from Homer to the age of rock. By Robert Pattison. New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
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| B/VI/2 |
On living in a revolution. By Julian Huxley. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1944].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/V/2 |
On native grounds: an interpretation of modern American prose literature. By Alfred Kazin. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1956.
|
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Paperback, rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/2 |
On poetry and poets. By T.S. Eliot. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, 1957.
|
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1st printing, 1957.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/II/3 |
On symbolism and society. By Kenneth Burke. Edited by Joseph R. Gusfield. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [c1989].
|
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
On the darkening green. By Jerome Charyn. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
On the poet and his craft: Selected prose of Theodore Roethke. By Theodore Roethke. Edited with an introduction by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press,
1965.
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| B/VII/5 |
On the shore: young writer remembering Chicago. By Albert Halper. New York : Viking Press, 1934.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/II/2 |
On this island. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1937].
|
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2nd edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/II/5 |
One day. By Wright Morris. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
One hundred and one famous poems with a prose supplement. Revised Edition. Chicago, IL. : R.J. Cook, 1924.
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Annotated on front endpaper and rear free endpaper in pencil. On front free endpaper, inscription reads, "To Fannie from
George 9/28/29."
On verso of same endpaper with inscription are written lines of a Tennyson poem.
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| B/I/1 |
One hundred dollar misunderstanding. By Robert Gover. New York : Grove Press, [c1961].
|
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Hardcover / double dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
One hundred years of solitude. By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. New York : Harper & Row, 1970.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| B/VII/1 |
The one-track mind: love poems of seventeenth and eighteenth -century France. By Deems Taylor. Selected and translated by Deems Taylor. New York : Library Publishers, [c1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/I/3 |
Onzichtbare man (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Ko Kooman. Amsterdam : Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, (c1988).
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Paperback.
Second copy.
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| A/I/4 |
Onzichtbare man (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Ko Kooman. Amsterdam : Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, (c1988).
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Paperback.
Forth copy.
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| A/I/3 |
Onzichtbare man (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Ko Kooman. Amsterdam : Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, (c1988).
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Paperback.
Third copy.
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| A/I/3 |
Onzichtbare man (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Ko Kooman. Amsterdam : Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, (c1988).
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Paperback.
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| A/V/2 |
The open form: essays for our time. Edited by Alfred Kazin. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, [c1961].
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Paperback.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Operation Shylock: A confession. By Philip Roth. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1993.
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Advance Copy.
Laid-in Letter and card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/4 |
The opposing self: nine essays in criticism. By Lionel Trilling. New York : Viking Press, 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Opposites: Poems and drawings. By Richard Wilbur. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/2 |
Optimism and frustration in the American Negro. By Charles V. Charles. New York : Steiger & Co., 1942.
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Reprint from The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol.29 No.3, July, 1942.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on cover.
Notes inside.
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| Deck E |
The optimist. By Herbert Gold. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
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1st Edition.
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
Laid-in note removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
Or else. By Robert Penn Warren. Poem / poems, 1968-1974. New York : Random House, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/VII/3 |
The orators: an English study. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [1967].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/1 |
The orchard keeper. By Cormac McCarthy. New York : Random House, [c1965].
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1st printing.
Paperback. Review copy?.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Enthusiastic note of praise for book and author on the stationary of Ralph Ellison inserted.
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| Deck E |
The orchard keeper. By Cormac McCarthy. New York : Random House, 1965.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Orchids and their cultivation. By David Sander. Revised Edition. Poole, Dorset, England : Blandford Press, Ltd., 1979.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The ordeal of civility. Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish struggle with modernity. By John Murray Cuddihy. New York : Basic Books, [c1974].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/1 |
The ordeal of Mark Twain. By Van Wyck Brooks. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. New York : Meridian Books, 1955.
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Order and progress: Brazil from monarch to republic. By Gilberto Freyre. Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Rod W. Horton. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
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In two volumes.
Advance Uncorrected Proofs.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/5 |
Order and progress: Brazil from monarchy to republic. By Gilberto Freyre. Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Rod W. Horton. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/V/3 |
The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-mountain life. By Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
The origin of the Brunists. By Robert Coover. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
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Advance Reading Copy.
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| Deck E |
The origin of the family private property and the state. By Frederick Engels. Translated by Ernest Untermann. Chicago, IL : Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1902.
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| Deck E |
Origins of the American Revolution. By John C. Miller. Decorative drawings by Eric M. Simon. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1943.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
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| Deck E |
Oscar Wilde: His life and confessions. By Frank Harris. Garden City, NY : Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1930.
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Bookplate on front endpaper signed by Ralph Ellison.
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| B/I/4 |
Oscar Wilde: in memoriam de profundis. By Andre Gide. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. New York : Philosophical Library, [c1949].
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| A/I/2 |
Osynlig man (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Stockholm, Sweden : Albert Bonniers Forlag, [1953].
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Paperback.
Uncut pages.
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| A/I/1 |
Osynlig man (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Stockholm, Sweden : Albert Bonniers Forlag, [1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| Deck E |
Ota: The pygmy at the zoo. By Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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Uncorrected Proof.
1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The other Bostonians: Poverty and progress in the American metropolis, 1880-1970. By Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1973.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent tot his book.
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| B/II/1 |
Other voices, other rooms. By Truman Capote. New York : Random House, [c1948].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/1 |
Others: shock troops of stylistic change. By Daniel G. Hoffman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1975].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Otto. By Mark L. Smith. Washington, D.C. : Masterpiece Production Publications, 1982.
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Card from publisher glued onto very first page.
Inscribed, "Mr. Ellison-I poured by heart, mind and soul into the creation of this novel. Please help me. I respect your
opinion of my writing ability" by the author on inside cover.
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| B/VI/2 |
Our age of unreason: a study of the irrational forces in social life. By Franz Alexander. Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott and Co., [c1942].
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Hardcover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/5 |
Our America. By Waldo Frank. New York : Boni and Liveright, [c1919].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed by the author to Florence and Melville.
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| B/II/4 |
Our friend James Joyce. By Mary Colum and Padraic Colum. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1958.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Our own confidence man: A study of his origins and development in our national literature. By William Goldhurst. Brief introduction by Erskine Caldwell. Gainesville, FL : Mister Print, 1979.
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This is number 62 of 400 in this Limited Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison, "With profound respect and thanks for your interest" by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
Our portion of Hell. Fayette County, Tennessee: An oral history of the struggle for civil rights. By Robert Hamburger. Photos by Michael Abramson. New York : Links Books, 1973.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in letter from the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Ourselves to know. By John O'Hara. New York : Random House, 1960.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
Out of the silent stone. By Edward Antony Watson. Pleasant Valley : Bruckings Publishing House, [n.d.].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Manuscript letter to Ralph Ellison from the author concerning Burke inserted.
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| Deck E |
Out went the candle. By Harvey Swados. New York : The Viking Press, 1955.
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Laid-in manuscript card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/3 |
Outer dark. By Cormic McCarthy. New York : Random House, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Bookmark with notes on it inserted.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The outlaw years: the history of the land pirates of the Natchez trace. By Robert M. Coates. New York : Literary Guild of America, 1930.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
Signed by Leon G. Cranburn on the preliminary page.
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| B/V/5 |
An outline of abnormal psychology. By Gardner Murphy. New York : Modern Library, [c1929].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/5 |
The outsider. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Brothers Publishers, [c1953].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Marks within.
Phone message paper inserted.
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| Deck E |
The owl of Minerva: The autobiography of Gustav Regler. By Gustav Regler. Translated from the German by Norman Denny. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1960.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
An owl on every post. By Sanora Babb. New York : McCall Publishing Company, 1970.
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Laid-in business card for senior editor of publishing company removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to
this book.
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| Deck E |
Oxherding tale. By Charles Johnson. New York : Grove Press, 1984.
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1st Evergreen Edition.
Inscribed, "For Mr. Ralph Ellison, with profound admiration and appreciation for your contribution to American culture"
by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
The oysters of Locmariaquer. By Eleanor Clark. Drawings by Leonid. New York : Pantheon Books, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
PACK. By John Lucas. Northfield, MN : Jim Starr Printing Company, 1968.
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Inscribed to Ralph by author on inside cover.
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| A/IV/5 |
Pagan Spain. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1957].
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1st edition: A-G.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Paideia: The ideals of Greek culture. Volume I. By Werner Jaeger. Translated from the German by Gilbert Highet. New York : Oxford University Press, 1945.
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Paideia: The ideals of Greek culture. Volume II. By Werner Jaeger. Translated from the German by Gilbert Highet. New York : Oxford University Press, 1943.
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Paideia: The ideals of Greek culture. Volume III. By Werner Jaeger. Translated from the German by Gilbert Highet. New York : Oxford University Press, 1944.
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| Deck E |
The painter's mind: A study of the relations of structure and space in painting. By Romare Bearden and Carl Holty. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1969.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by Romare Bearden on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The pale criminals or the recalcitrant fourth. By Richard Bankowski. New York : Random House, 1967.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Pale fire. By Vladimir Nabokov. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.
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1st Impression.
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| B/I/5 |
Papa Hemingway: a personal memoir. By A.E. Hotchner. New York : Random House, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| B/I/5 |
Papa: a personal memoir. By Gregory H. Hemingway. With a preface by Norman Mailer. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Paper lion. By George Plimpton. New York : Harper & Row, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
Laid-in slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The papers of Christian Gauss. By Christian Gauss. Edited by Katherine Gauss Jackson and Hiram Haydn. New York : Random House, 1957.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Papillot, clignot et dodo. By Francis Steegmuller and Norbert Guterman. Freely translated into French from the English of Eugene Field's "Wynken,
Blynken and Nod." Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. New York : Ariel Books, 1964.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Paris Journal, 1944-1965. By Janet Flanner. Edited by William Shawn. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Paris trout. By Pete Dexter. New York : Random House, 1988.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/1 |
Parisian sketches: letters to the New York Tribune, 1975-1976. By Henry James. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel and Ilse Dusoir Lind. New York : New York University Press, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/VII/1 |
Parodies: anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm - and after. Edited by Dwight Macdonald. New York : Random House, [c1960].
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[2nd printing].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Parsons School of Design. Yearbook 1971. New York : The Student Council of Parsons School of Design, 1971.
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Laid-in letter from President of the school to Ralph Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to
this book.
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| Deck E |
Part of our time: Some monuments and ruins of the thirties. By Murray Kempton. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1955.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
Partial accounts: new and selected poems. By William Meredith. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author.
Invitation for reception, address labels inserted.
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| Deck E |
Partisans. By Peter Matthiessen. New York : The Viking Press, 1955.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
Party: A literary nightmare. By Frederick Lambeck. Garden City, NY : Country Life Press, 1936.
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Printed especially for the New York Times National Book Fair, Rockefeller Center, November 1936.
Signed by Ralph Ellison and dated Nov. 9, 1936 on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Passage from home. By Isaac Rosenfeld. New York : The Dial Press, 1946.
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| Deck E |
The passion of Claude McKay: Selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948. By Claude McKay. Edited with an introduction and notes by Wayne F. Cooper. New York : Schocken Books, 1973.
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Uncorrected Proofs.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Passport for Parnassus. By John Lucas. Winona, MN : Winona Printing Company, 1975.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the author.
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| Deck E |
Past and present Chartism, and sartor resartus. By Thomas Carlyle. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1870.
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| A/VI/4 |
Pathos of power. By Kenneth Bancroft Clark. New York : Harper and Row, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Patriotic gore: Studies in the literature of the American Civil War. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Oxford University Press, 1962.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in hand-written notes removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Patriots: The American Revolution; Generation of genius. Edited by Virginius Dabney. Introductory essay by Henry Steele Commager. New York : Atheneum, 1975.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/1 |
Pattern new lyrics. By John Lucas. Winona, Minnesota : Winona Printing Co., 1987.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author.
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| B/VI/2 |
Patterns of culture. By Ruth Benedict. New York : Penguin Books, [c1934].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the fly leaf.
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| Deck E |
Patterns of myth. Alpha: The myths of creation by Charles H. Long. New York : George Braziller, 1963.
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1st Printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Patterns of Myth. The two hands of God: The myths of polarity by Alan W. Watts. New York : George Braziller, 1963.
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1st Printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Patterns of myth. The wisdom of the serpent: Myths of death, rebirth, and resurrection by Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oakes. New York : George Braziller, 1963.
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1st Printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/V/2 |
Patterns of Negro segregation. By Charles Spurgeon Johnson. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c.1943].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/3 |
Patterns of sexual behavior. By Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach. With a foreword by Robert Latou. Dickinson. New York : Harper and Bros., 1952.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Paul Revere & the world he lived in. By Esther Forbes. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942.
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| Deck E |
Paul Strand: Photographs 1915-1945. By Nancy Newhall. New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1945.
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Signed by Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The peacock's tail. By Edward Hoagland. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Pearl: A new verse translation. By Marie Borroff. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1977.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/5 |
A peck of salt: a year in the ghetto. By John T. Hough. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., [c1970].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VII/2 |
The Pecking order. By Mark Kennedy. New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., [c1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VI/2 |
The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South. By Kenneth Stampp. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/2 |
The penguin book of contemporary American essays. Edited by M. Howard. New York : Viking Press, [1984].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signatures on the front free end paper and on the fly leaf.
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| Deck E |
The pentameron and other imaginary conversations. By Walter Savage Landor. Edited, with a preface by Havelock Ellis. The Camelot Series, edited by Ernest Rhys. London
: Walter Scott, n.d.
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| B/I/5 |
The people one knows. By Robert Boles. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
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| Deck E |
Pepacton. By John Burroughs. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1881.
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Signed by Ralph W. Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| A/V/5 |
Père Goriot. By Honore de Balzac. With the illustrations of Albert Lynch. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| B/V/4 |
The perfect wagnerite: a commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs. By Bernard Shaw. Chicago and New York : Herbert S.
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Stone and Co., 1898.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Also signature of Caroline Lexow, February 1904.
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| Deck E |
Performing Arts: Problems and prospects. Rockefeller Panel Report on the future of theatre, dance, music in America. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Pericles on 31st street. By Harry Mark Petrakis. Chicago, IL : Quadrangle Books, 1965.
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1st Printing.
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| A/VII/3 |
Permanence and change: an anatomy of purpose. By Kenneth Burke. New York : New Republic, Inc., 1936.
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2nd printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Front cover broken.
Marks and notes within.
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| A/II/2 |
Permanence and change: an anatomy of purpose. By Kenneth Burke. Introduction by Hugh Dalziel Duncan. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1965, c1956].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author and Libbie.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Permanent errors: Stories by Reynolds Price. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Perplexities and paradoxes. By Miguel de Unamuno. Translated from the Spanish by Stuart Gross. New York : The Philosophical Library, 1945.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Persian lions, Persian lambs: An American's odyssey in Iran. By Curtis Harnack. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Persistent faces. By William Steig. New York : Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1945.
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| B/VII/3 |
Person, place and thing. By Karl Jay Shapiro. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, [c1942].
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2nd printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/5 |
Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant. By Ulysses Grant. In two volumes. New York : Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
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| B/III/3 |
The personal papers of Anton Chekhov. By Anton Checkhov. Introduction Matthew Josephson. New York : Lear, [c1948].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Personal record 1928-1939. By Julian Green. Translated from the French by Jocelyn Godefroi. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1939.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/2 |
Perspectives on James's The Portrait of a Lady: a collection of critical essays. Edited by William Stafford. New York : New York University Press, 1967.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Peru. By Gordon Lish. New York : E.P. Dutton, 1986.
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A William Abrahams Book.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
Phaedra: tragedy in five acts, 1677. By Jean Racine. Translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Drawings by Igor Tulipanov. San Diego; New York : Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich, [c1984].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by author in front free end paper.
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| A/V/2 |
Philip Randolph: a biographical portrait. By Jervis A. Anderson. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., [c1973].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Letter from the publisher inserted.
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| B/IV/5 |
The philosophy of art history. By Arnold Hauser. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
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1st American edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
The philosophy of art of Karl Marx. By Mikhail Lifshitz. Edited by Angel Flores. New York : Critics Group, 1938.
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| B/V/5 |
The philosophy of Hegel. By Hegel. Edited and with an introduction by Carl J. Friedrich. New York : Modern Library, [1953].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/4 |
The philosophy of literary form: studies in symbolic action. By Kenneth Burke. Louisiana : State University Press, 1941.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison twice on front free endpaper.
Numerous marks and notes within.
Part of dust jacket and unfinished personal letter about Faulkner, African-Americans in literature, and literary theory
inserted.
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| A/VII/3 |
The philosophy of literary form: studies in symbolic action. By Kenneth Burke. Revised edition. New York : Vintage Books, 1957.
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1st Vintage edition.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Philosophy of literature. By Gustav E. Mueller. New York : Philosophical Library, 1948.
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| B/III/3 |
The Phoenix and the spider: a book of essays about some Russian writers and their views of the self. By Renato Toggioli. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1957.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The picaresque saint: Representative figures in contemporary fiction. By R.W.B. Lewis. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front and rear free endpaper.
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| B/II/4 |
Picasso's mask. By Andre Malraux. Translated and annotated by June Guicharnaud. With Jacques Guicharnaud. New York : Holt, Rinehart,
and Winston, [1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket. Second copy.
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| B/II/4 |
Picasso's mask. By Andre Malraux. Translated and annotated by June Guicharnaud. With Jacques Guicharnaud. New York : Holt, Rinehart,
and Winston, [1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Scrap paper with note inserted.
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| Deck E |
Pictures in the hallway. By Sean O'Casey. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1942.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A piece of my mind: Reflections at sixty. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1956.
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1st Printing.
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| B/II/5 |
Pierre, or, the Ambiguities. By Herman Melville. With preface by H.M. Tomlinson and introduction by John Brooks Moore. New York : E.P. Dutton and
Co., [c1929].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/2 |
Pilgrim of the Apocalypse: a critical study of D.H. By Horace Gregory. Lawrence. New York : Viking Press, 1933.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/2 |
Pioneers of France in the New World. By Francis Parkman. France and England in North America, part one. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1910.
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Hardcover.
Label "from the private library of Philip Dorn" on front pastedown.
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| B/I/1 |
A place without twilight, 1958. By Peter S. Feibleman. Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Co., [c1958].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Platitudes. By Trey Ellis. New York : A Vintage Original / Random House, Inc., 1988.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed, "To Mr. Ellison, I hope it makes you laugh" by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
The player king. By Earl Rovit. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/2 |
The plays of Christopher Marlowe. By Christopher Marlowe. Introduction by Edward Thomas. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1950.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/4 |
The plays of Euripides. By Euripides. Volume I. London : J.M. Dent and Sons, [1936].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/2 |
The playwright as thinker: a study of drama in modern times. By Eric Russell Bentley. New York : Reynold and Hitchcock, [c1946].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/1 |
Please "yes" today. By John Lucas. Winona, Minnesota : Winona Printing Co., 1973.
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Inscribed to Ellisons by the author.
Some poems starred.
Some corrections within text.
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| B/V/1 |
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. By Daniel G. Hoffman. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1972.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. By John Wilmot. Edited with an introduction and notes by Vivian De Sola Pinto. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,
[c1953].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/4 |
Poems for Charlotte. By Edwin Honig. [S.l.] : [s.n.], [c1963].
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on inside of back cover.
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| X/X/X |
Poems for people who don't read poems. By H.M. Enzensberger. [New York] : Atheneum, 1968.
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| Deck E |
Poems for people who don't read poems. By Hans Magnus Enzenberger. Translated by Michael Hamburger, Jerome Rothenberg and the author. New York : Atheneum, 1968.
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1st Edition.
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| A/III/4 |
Poems for small apartments. By Edward N. Horn. Prairie City, Illinois : Press of James A. Decker, 1941.
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Christmas poem by the author inserted.
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| B/IV/2 |
Poems of Baudelaire. By Charles Baudelaire. A translation of Les Fleurs du Mal by Roy Campbell. New York : Pantheon Books, [1952].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/2 |
Poems of Mao Tse-Tung. By Mao Tse-Tung. Translation, introduction, and notes by Hua-Ling Nieh Engle and Paul Engle. New York : Dell publishing,
[c1972].
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Paperback.
Inscribed by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
The poems of Robert Herrick: A selection from Hesperides and Noble Numbers. By Robert Herrick. With an introduction by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. New York : The Century Co., 1900.
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| Deck E |
The poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge including poems and versions of poems now published for the first time. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited with textual and bibliographical notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. London : Oxford
University Press, 1912.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VIII/1 |
Poems of the damned. By Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Jacques LeClercq. Illustrated by Stanley Wyatt. Mount Vernon, NY : Peter Pauper Press,
[c1960].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poems of today: a collection of the contemporary verse of American and Great Britain. Edited by Alice Cecilia Cooper. Boston : Jinn and Co., [c1924].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/4 |
Poems, selected and new, 1959-1974. By Adrienne Rich. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1966].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Photo of the author inserted.
Some marks on p.6.
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| B/V/4 |
Poems. By Stephen Spender. New York : Random House, 1935.
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3rd printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/5 |
Poems. By Kenneth Fearing. Introduction by Edward Dahlberg. New York : Dynamo, 1935.
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Limited edition of 1000 copies, copy No. 999.
Hardcover.
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| A/II/5 |
Poésies Incomplètes. By Roger Asselineau. Paris : Editions Debresse-Poesie, [1959].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Uncut pages.
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| Deck E |
A poet and his camera. By Gordon Parks. Preface by Stephen Spender. Introduction by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. New York : The Viking Press, 1969.
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A Studio Book.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on dedication page by author.
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| Deck E |
The poetic image in six genres. By David Madden. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.
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Inscribed, "To Ralph Ellison, A rare man, Well met in Stillwater, May you continue to soar" by the author on dedication page.
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| B/IV/4 |
The poetic image. By C. Day Lewis. London : Jonathan Cape, [1947].
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[2nd impression].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
The poetic nuance. By Dudley Fitts. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1958].
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Private printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/2 |
The poetics of belief: studies in Coleridge, Arnold, Pater, Santyana, Stephens, Heidegger. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [c1985].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Hasselblad camera advertisement inserted.
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| B/V/5 |
The poetics of space. By Gaston Bachelard. Translated from the French by Maria Jolas. Foreword by Etienne Gilson. New York : Orion Press, [c1964].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/1 |
Poetry and criticism: four revolutions in literary taste. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York : Atheneum, 1961.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/2 |
Poetry and the age. By Randall Jarrell. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Poetry as a means of grace. By Charles Grosvenor Osgood. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1941.
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Review copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
Poetry in the therapeutic experience. By Arthur Lerner. New York : Pergamon Press, [c1978].
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the editor.
Marks on front pastedown.
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| A/IV/3 |
The poetry of civic virtue: Eliot, Malroux, Auden. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, [c1976].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/2 |
The poetry of T.S. Eliot. By D.E.S. Maxwell. London : Routledge and Keegan Paul Broadway House, [1966].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/VI/5 |
The poetry of the blues. By Samuel B. Charters. With photographs by Ann Charters. New York : Avon Books, [c1963].
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1st Avon printing, 1970.
Paperback.
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| A/III/4 |
The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949: an anthology. Edited by Langston and Arna Bontemps. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1949.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poetry, prose and plays. By John Dryden. Selected by Douglas Grant. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1952.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poets of the English language. Vol. 1: Langland to Spencer. Edited by W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poets of the English language. Vol. 2: Marlowe to Marvell. Edited by W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poets of the English language. Vol. 3: Milton to Goldsmith. Edited by W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poets of the English language. Vol. 4: Blake to Poe. Edited by W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/2 |
Poets of the English language. Vol. 5: Tennyson to Yeats. Edited by W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/3 |
Poets of today, No. 6. Introductory essay by John Hall Wheelock. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1959].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Poets on street corners: Portraits of fifteen Russian poets. By Olga Carlisle. New York : Random House, 1968.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in packing slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Points East: Narratives of New England. By Rachel Field. New York : Brewer and Warren, Inc., 1930.
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Laid-in dust jacket flaps removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed, "For Fannie who blows gently on the infinite candle's sputter--" on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/2 |
The political economy of slavery: studies in the economy and society of the slave South. By Eugene D. Genovese. New York : Random House, [c1965].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
A political education: A journal of life with Senators, Generals, Cabinet members, and Presidents. By Harry McPherson. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
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1st Edition.
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
Laid-in slip from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The politicos: 1865-1896. By Matthew Josephson. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/5 |
Politics and the Novel. By Irving Howe. New York : Meridian Books, 1957.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/3 |
Politics in the African-American novel. By Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Greenwood Press, [c1991].
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1st edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
Poor George. By Paula Fox. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Poor splendid wings: The Rossettis and their circle. By Frances Winwar. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1933.
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Book plate on front endpaper.
Inscription on front free endpaper by the author.
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| X/X/X |
Poor Splendid Wings. By F. Winwar. Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1933.
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With Bernard D.N. Grebanier's bookplate and presentation from Winwar to Ida Guggenheimer.
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| Deck E |
The poorhouse fair. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The poorhouse fair. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Popular culture and high culture: An analysis and evaluation of taste. By Herbert J. Gans. New York : Basic Books, Inc., 1974.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/2 |
Pork chop hill. By S.L.A. Marshall. New York : Permabooks, [c1956].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/IV/4 |
The Portable Dante. By Aligheri Dante. Edited and with an introduction by Paulo Milano. New York : Viking Press, 1953.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/4 |
The portable Greek reader. Edited and with an introduction by W.H. Auden. New York : Viking Press, 1950.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/2 |
The portable Henry James. By Henry James. Edited and with an introduction by Martin Zabel. New York : Viking press, [1956].
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Signature of Ellison on half-title.
Hardcover.
Rebound.
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| B/II/3 |
The portable James Joyce. By James Joyce. With an introduction and notes by Harry Levin. New York : Viking Press, 1953.
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5th printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Obituary of May Monaghan inserted.
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| A/VIII/5 |
The Portable Mark Twain. By Mark Twain. Edited by Bernard Devoto. New York : Viking Press, [1953].
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Hardcover.
Textblock bound upside-down in binding.
Marks and arks and notes within. Bard registration card inserted.
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| B/III/1 |
The Portable Mark Twain. By Mark Twain. Edited by Bernard DeVoto. New York : Viking Press, [1961].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| A/III/3 |
The portable Thomas Wolfe. By Thomas Wolfe. Edited by Maxwell Geismar. New York : Viking Press, 1946.
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/VII/3 |
The Portable Thoreau. By Henry Thoreau. Edited and with an introduction by Carl Bode. New York : Viking Press, 1947.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/4 |
The portrait of a lady. By Henry James. Illustrated with drawings by Joan Singer Sargent. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, 1983.
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Hardcover.
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| B/I/4 |
Portrait of André Gide: a critical biography. By Justin O'Brien. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/II/4 |
A Portrait of André Malraux. By Robert Payne. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Signed by David Wait on the title page.
Shopping list inserted.
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| B/I/5 |
Portrait of Hemingway. By Lillian Ross. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1961.
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Portrait of Max: An intimate memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm. By S.N. Behrman. New York : Random House, 1960.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/4 |
A portrait of the artist as a young man. By James Joyce. New York : Viking Press, [1961].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
Card with notes inserted. Page 204 marked on back free end paper.
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| B/II/4 |
A portrait of the artist as a young man. By James Joyce. Introduction by Herbert Gorman. New York : Modern Library, [c1928].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The position of America and other essays. By Alfonso Reyes. Selected and translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis. Foreword by Federico de Onis. New York
: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
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1st Edition.
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| B/I/2 |
The possessed. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated from Russian by Constance Garnett. New York : Modern Library, [c1936].
|
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Hardcover.
Marks within.
Scrap paper and business card inserted.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/1 |
A possible reality: a design for the attainment of high academic achievement for inner city students. By Kenneth Bancroft Clark. New York : Emerson Hall, 1972.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| B/V/4 |
The Pound Era. By Hugh Kenner. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, [c1971].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Powdered eggs. By Charles Simmons. New York : E.P. Dutton & CO., Inc., 1964.
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Laid-in letter from the National Institute of Arts and Letters removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
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| Deck E |
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York. By Robert A. Caro. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from different publisher about different book removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to
this book.
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| B/I/2 |
The power of blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville. By Harry Levin. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The power of freedom in human affairs. By Henry Allen Moe. Introduction by John Sloan Dickey. Philadelphia, PA : The American Philosophical Society / Princeton
University Press, 1977.
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Laid-in letter from the American Philosophical Society and card from Edith Monroe Moe removed and housed separately; filed
immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/1 |
The power of satire: magic, ritual, art. By Robert C. Elliott. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1960.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/4 |
Praise a fine day. By Sigrid de Lima. New York : Random House, [c1959].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/2 |
Prancing Nigger. By Ronald Firbank. With an introduction by Carl van Vechten. New York : Brentano's, [c1926].
|
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3rd printing.
Hardcover.
Bookmark inserted.
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| Deck E |
Prater violet. By Christopher Isherwood. New York : Random House, 1945.
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1st Printing.
Wartime Book.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/1 |
Prejudice and your child. By Kenneth Bancroft Clark. Boston : Beacon Press, [c.1955].
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[1st edition].
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison oN: the front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on the paste-down.
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| B/VI/1 |
Prejudice: Japanese-Americans: Symbol of Racial Intolerance. By Carey McWilliams. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1944.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The presence of grace. By J.F. Powers. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/1 |
The presence of Walt Whitman: selected papers from the English Institute. Edited with foreword by R.W.B. Lewis. New York : Columbia University Press, 1962.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, dated Dec. 1962.
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| A/II/2 |
Présences contemporaines: ecrivains Americains d'aujourd'hui. By Pierre Brodin. Paris : Les Nouvelles Editions Debresse, 1964.
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
(Includes: short article about Ellison.).
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| B/VI/3 |
The price of revolution. By Denis W. Brogan. London : Hamish Hamilton, [1951].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
The price of union. By Herbert Agar. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
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| Deck E |
The price you pay. By Barbara Summers. New York : Amistad Press, Inc., 1993.
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Uncorrected Advance Reader's Copy.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/4 |
Pride and prejudice. By Jane Austen. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Pride of family: Four generations of women of color. By Carol Ione. New York : Summit Books, 1991.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
Primer for White Folks. Edited by Bucklin Moon. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran & CO., Inc., 1945.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the editor on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A primer of happenings & time/space art. By Al Hansen. New York : Something Else Press, Inc., 1965.
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| B/VI/2 |
Primitive heritage: an anthropological anthology. Edited, with an introduction, by Margaret Mead and Nicolas Calas. New York : Random House, [c1953].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Primitive religion: Its nature and origin. By Paul Radin. New York : The Viking Press, 1937.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/1 |
The primitive. By Chester Himes. New York : Signet Books, [c1955].
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1st printing.
Paperback.
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| B/II/3 |
The princess Casamassima. By Henry James. With an introduction by Lionel Trilling. In two volumes. New York : Macmillan Co., 1948.
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1st printing.
Hardcover / slip case.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/V/5 |
Principles of psychology. By William James. Authorized edition in two unabridged volumes bound as one. [S.l.] : Dover Publications, [1950].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Stamp on front free end paper.
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| B/VI/1 |
The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes. By Lancelot Andrewes. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas S. Kepler. New York : World Publishing, [c1956].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/1 |
The Private Diaries of Stendhal (Marie-Henri Bayle). By Stendhal. Edited and translated by Robert Sage. London : Victor Gollancz, 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
The private dining room and other new verses. By Ogden Nash. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1953].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/5 |
Prize stories of 1938. Selected and edited by Harry Hansen. New York : Doubleday, Dolan and Co., 1938.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Rose Ellison from Zelma and John.
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| Deck E |
Prize Stories of 1944. Selected and edited by Herschel Brickell assisted by Muriel Fuller. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.,
1944.
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| A/VI/4 |
The problem of slavery in the age of revolution 1770-1823. By David Brion Davis. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [c1975].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Price marks.
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| B/V/2 |
Problems of art: ten philosophical lectures. By Susan K. Langer. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1957].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Inscribed by Burnis?
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| B/I/1 |
Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics. By Mikhail M. Bakhtin. Translated by R.W. Rotsel. [Ann Arbor, MI] : Ardis, [c1973].
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on first page.
Marks within.
Card with notes inserted.
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| B/III/2 |
Problems of Soviet literature: reports and speeches at the first Soviet Writer's Congress. Moscow : Cooperative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1935.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/V/1 |
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2nd Series. No. 24. New York : American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1974.
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Paperback.
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| A/V/1 |
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2nd Series. No. 26. New York : American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1976.
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Paperback.
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| A/V/1 |
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2nd Series. No. 32. New York : American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1981.
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Paperback.
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| A/V/1 |
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2nd Series. No. 41. New York : American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1990.
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Paperback.
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| A/V/1 |
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2nd Series. No. 43. New York : American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1992.
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The process. By Brion Gysin. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/1 |
The profane virtues: four studies of the eighteenth century. By Peter Quennell. New York : Viking Press, 1945.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed with"compliments of Mr.
Covici".
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| B/VI/3 |
The Professional Thief. Annotated and interpreted by Edwin H. Sutherland. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [c1937].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| B/III/5 |
Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion. By Jane Ellen Harrison. New York : Meridian Books, [1960].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/VI/1 |
Prometheus: archetypal image of human existence. By C. Kerenyi. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The promise kept. By Kurth Sprague. Drawings by John Groth. Austin : The Encino Press, 1975.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the illustrator on front free endpaper (also with illustration).
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| B/V/1 |
The promised end: essays and reviews, 1942-1962. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. Cleveland, NY : World Publishing Co., [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Promises: poems, 1954-1956. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1957].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The prospect before us. By Herbert Gold. Cleveland, OH : The World Publishing Company, 1954.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/1 |
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. By Max Weber. Translated by Talcott Parsons, with a foreword by H. Tawney. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1958].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Prothalamium: A cycle of the Holy Grail. By Philip Toynbee. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The proud tower: A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914. By Barbara W. Tuchman. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1966.
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1st Printing.
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| B/VII/1 |
Proust's binoculars: a study on memory, time, and recognition in a la recherche du temps perdu. By Roger Shattuck. New York : Random House, [c1963].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/3 |
Psyche and symbol: selections from the writings of C.G. Jung. By Carl G. Jung. Edited by Violet S. de Laszlo. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1958.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Psychiatrist of America: The life of Harry Stack Sullivan. By Helen Swick Perry. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1982.
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
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| Deck E |
Psychic energy: Its source and its transformation. By M. Esther Harding. Foreword by C.G. Jung. New York : Pantheon Books / Random House, 1963.
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Bollingen Series Ten.
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| Deck E |
Psycho-analysis. By Ernest Jones. New York : Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929.
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| B/V/2 |
Psychoanalysis and the unconscious. By D.H. Lawrence. New York : Thomas Seltzer, 1921.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/5 |
Psychoanalysis: its theories and practical application. By A.A. Brill. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders Co., 1914.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| B/V/5 |
Psychology and the Promethean will: a constructive study of the acute common problem of education, medicine, and religion. By William H. Sheldon. New York : Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1936.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The psychology of the poet Shelley. By Edward Carpenter and George Barnefield. London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1925.
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| B/III/1 |
Pudd'nhead Wilson: a tale. By Mark Twain. With an introduction by F.R. Leavis. New York : Grove Press, [1958].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
Marks and notes within. Front cover and looseleaf with notes inserted.
|
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| B/III/1 |
Pudd'nhead Wilson. By Mark Twain. Introduction by Langston Hughes. New York : Bantam Books, [1959].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Pull down vanity and other stories. By Leslie A. Fiedler. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/5 |
The purse: four stories of China. By Nieh Hua-Ling. Taipei, China : Heritage Press, [1962].
|
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from Leslie, Christmas 1965.
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| Deck E |
The pursuit of happiness: A textbook in civics. By Edward Manley. With Oklahoma supplement. Chicago, IL : Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., 1933.
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Signed by Herbert Maurice Ellison on front and rear endpapers, front and rear free endpapers, and the gutters in between.
Annotated lightly throughout, including rear free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Pursuit. By Berry Morgan. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in items from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/2 |
Pushkin the man and the artist. By Martha Warren Beckwith. New York : Paisley Press, 1937.
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/2 |
Pushkin: the man and the artist. New York : Paisley Press, 1937.
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Hardcover.
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| B/III/2 |
Pushkin. By Henry Troyat. Translated from the French by Nancy Amphoux. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1970.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/V/2 |
Puzzles and epiphanies: essays and reviews, 1958-1961. By Frank Kermode. With an introduction by William Philips. New York : Chilmark Press, [c1962].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/4 |
Pylon. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1962].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| B/VII/2 |
A quarto of modern literature. Edited by Leonard Brown and Porter G. Perrin. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1935].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/4 |
Quest for myth. By Richard V. Chase. Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, [c1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/1 |
The question of Hamlet. By Harry Levin. New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
R.v.R.: The life and times of Rembrandt van Rijn by Joannis Van Loon, presented by his great-great-grandson Hendrik van Loon. By Hendrik Willem Van Loon. New York : The Literary Guild, 1930.
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Signed by Fanny M. McConnell on rear endpaper.
Laid-in newspaper clipping of poem removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Rabbit redux. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Rabbit, run. By John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in manuscript notes of cooking directions removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/2 |
Race relations: a select list of readings on racial and cultural minorities in the United States with special emphasis on
Negroes. By Julia Waxman. Chicago : Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1945.
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Pamphlet.
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| A/VI/3 |
Race riot at East St. By Elliott Rudwick. Louis, July 2, 1917. Foreword by Oscar Handlin. New York : Atheneum, 1972.
|
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1st Atheneum paperback edition.
Paperback.
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| A/VI/3 |
Race riot: Chicago in the red summer of 1919. By William M. Tuttle, Jr. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
|
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( Studies in American Negro Life).
1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/1 |
Race Rock: a novel. By Peter Matthiessen. New York : Harper and Bros., [c1954].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/2 |
Race, reason, and rubbish: a primer of race biology. By Gunnar Dahlberg. Translated from the Swedish by Lancelot Hogben. New York : Columbia University Press, 1942.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison in front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Racial inequality in employment: Patterns of discrimination. By Herbert Hill. Reprinted from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Volume
357 (January 1965), pp. 30-47. New York : National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1965.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the front cover.
|
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| A/II/2 |
Radical innocence: studies in the contemporary American novels. By Ihab Hassan. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1961.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free end paper.
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| A/IV/1 |
Raditzer. By Peter Matthiessen. New York : Viking Press, 1961.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author.
Biography of the author inserted.
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| Deck E |
A rage to live. By John O'Hara. New York : Random House, 1949.
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| Deck E |
Ragtime. By E.L. Doctorow. New York : Random House, 1975.
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1st Edition.
This special edition prepared for friends of the author and publisher.
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| Deck E |
The railway police and the last trolley ride. By Hortense Calisher. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1966.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from published removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope: A political companion to Invisible Man. Edited by Lucas E. Morel. Lexington, KY : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
|
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Inscribed, "For Fanny Ellison, Thank you for all you have done to keep Ralph's legacy alive in these turbulent times. With
grateful acknowledgement for your help with this project, I remain, appreciatively yours" by the author on half-title page.
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| A/II/2 |
Ralph Ellison: a collection of critical essays. By John Hersey. Englewood, NY : Prentice-Hall, [c1974].
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| Deck E |
Ralph Ellison: A collection of critical essays. Edited by John Hersey. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974.
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A Spectrum Book.
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| Deck E |
Ralph Ellison: His fiction and its backgrounds. By David Loeser Carson. A dissertation submittes to the faculty of the University of Delaware in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English. Newark : University of Delaware, May 1973.
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Inscribed, "For Ralph and Fanny Ellison with deep gratitude and affection" by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ralph Ellison: The genesis of an artist. By Rudolf F. Dietze. Nurnberg, Germany : Verlag Hans Carl, 1982.
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Inscribed by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Range of Literature. Third Edition. Edited by Elisabeth W. Schneider, Albert L. Walker, and Herbert E. Childs. New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, 1973.
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Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Rare Shells. By S. Peter Dance. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1969.
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| Deck E |
Rarer action: Essays in honor of Francis Fergusson. Edited by Alan Cheuse and Richard Koffler. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1970.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/5 |
The raven and the whale: the war of words and wits in the era of Poe and Melville. By Perry Miller. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1956].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
The raven: A novel of Edgar Allen Poe. By Chancellor Williams. Philadelphia, PA : Dorrance and Company, Inc., 1943.
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| B/V/3 |
The raw and the cooked: introduction to a science of mythology. By Claude Levi-Strauss. Vol. 1. Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. New York : Harper and Row, [c1969].
|
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The raw edge. By Benjamin Appel. New York : Random House, 1958.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Raymond Chandler speaking. By Raymond Chandler. Edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Katherine Sorley Walker. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
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1st Printing.
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| B/I/2 |
A reader's guide to T.S. Eliot: a poem by poem analysis. By George Williamson. Second edition. New York : V. Noonday Press, [1966].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Reading myself and others. By Philip Roth. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
|
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note and business card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/3 |
Readings in black American music. Compiled and edited by Elaine Southern. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1971].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Correction on title page.
|
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| A/VI/1 |
The real cool killers. By Chester Himes. New York : Avon Books, [c1949].
|
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Realism in our time: Literature and the class struggle. By Georg Lukacs. Translated from the German by John and Necke Mander. Preface by George Steiner. New York : Harper &
Row, 1971.
|
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Harper Torchbook Edition.
Underlined and annotated throughout.
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| B/III/4 |
The realities of fiction: a book about writing. By Nancy Hale. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1962].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Ralph Ellison's stationary with note inserted.
|
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| Deck E |
Really the Blues. By Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. New York : Random House, 1946.
|
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1st Printing.
Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/V/5 |
The realm of essence: book first of realms of being. By George Santayana. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1927].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/3 |
The rebel. By Albert Camus. With a foreword by Herbert Reed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
The rebellion of the hanged. By B. Traven. Translated from the Spanish. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
|
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1st American Edition.
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| B/VII/3 |
Recent American fiction: some critical views. By Joseph J. Waldmeir. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1963].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
Marks within.
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| A/II/2 |
Recent American novelists. By Jack Ludwig. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1962.
|
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(University of Minneapolis Pamphlets on American Writers, No.22).
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| Deck E |
Reckless disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time. By Renata Adler. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
|
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison: "For Ralph and Mrs. Ellison with love and admiration, Renata Adler."
|
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| B/VII/5 |
The recognitions. By William Gaddis. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1955].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Review inserted.
|
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| B/V/4 |
The Recollections. By Alexis de Tocqueville. Translated by Alex Teixeira De Amattos. Edited by J.P. Mayer. New York : Meridian Books, [c1959].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| A/VIII/1 |
The red badge of courage and Selected Stories. By Stephen Crane. Edited and with an introduction and notes by R.W. Stone. New York : Signet Books, New American Library,
[1960].
|
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1st printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
|
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| A/VIII/1 |
The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War. By Stephen Crane. Illustrated with paintings and sketches by Winslow Homer. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The red book of animal stories. By Andrew Lang. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/3 |
The red hot vacuum and other pieces on the writing of the sixties. By Theodore Solotaroff. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Red love. By David Evanier. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990.
|
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
Red owl: Poems. By Robert Morgan. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1972.
|
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher and photograph of author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Red, black, blond and olive: Studied in four civilizations: Zuni, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Oxford University Press, 1956.
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|
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| B/II/5 |
Redburn: his first voyage. By Herman Melville. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1957.
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
Reflections of an angry middle-aged editor. By James A. Wechsler. New York : Random House, 1960.
|
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1st Printing.
|
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| B/V/2 |
Reflections on art: a source book of writings by artists, critics, and philosophers. Edited by Susan K. Langer. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [c1958].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Reflections on espionage: The question of Cupcake. By John Hollander. New York : Atheneum, 1976.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| A/III/2 |
Reflections on segregation: desegregation, power, and morals. By William T. Fontaine. Springfield, IL : Charles C. Thomas, [c1967].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper and pastedown.
|
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| A/IV/3 |
Regeneration through violence: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860. By Richard Slotkin. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [1979].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
Regional folklore in the United States: Buying the wind. By Richard M. Dorson. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1964.
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| Deck E |
Reinhart in love. By Thomas Berger. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962.
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| A/IV/3 |
Reinhold Niebuhr. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [c1963].
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Paperback.
(Pamphlets on American Writers, No.31).
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on inside of front cover.
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| Deck E |
The Reivers: A reminiscence. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, 1962.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/4 |
Rejoyce. By Anthony Burgess. New York : Ballantine Books, [c. 1965].
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Paperback.
Marks within.
Clipping of a picture of lamp inserted.
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| Deck E |
The reluctant rapist. By Ed Bullins. New York : Harper & Row, 1973.
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Uncorrected Bound Galleys.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Remember me to God. By Myron S. Kaufmann. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1957.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Remembering song: Encounters with the New Orleans Jazz tradition. By Frederick Turner. New York : The Viking Press, 1982.
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Unrevised and unpublished proof.
Laid in letter from author and letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
Rendezvous with America. By Melvin B. Tolson. New York : Dodd., Mead, and Co., 1944.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Signature of Langston Hughes on front pastedown.
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| A/IV/4 |
Rendezvous with America. By Melvin B. Tolson. New York : [s.n.], 1942.
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Reprint from Common Ground, Summer 1942.
Softbound.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on first page.
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| Deck E |
Rendezvous with destiny: A history of modern American reform. By Eric F. Goldman. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VII/1 |
The republic of letters: essays on various writers. By Louis Kronenberger. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The republic of technology: Reflections on our future community. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Harper & Row, 1978.
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1st Edition.
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| A/V/3 |
The republic. By Charles A. Beard. New York : Viking Press, [c1943].
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(Armed Services Editions).
Paperback.
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| B/I/2 |
Requiem for a nun. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1951].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Resident alien: Poems by Daryl Hine. By Daryl Hine. New York : Atheneum, 1975.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VII/4 |
The return of Ansel Gibbs. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Note, reading "Still no deer, blast it.
-Bill"inserted.
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| Deck E |
The return of Ansel Gibbs. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The return of Henry Starr. By Richard Slotkin. New York : Atheneum, 1988.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from the author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Reunion and reaction: The compromise of 1877 and the end of reconstruction. By C. Vann Woodward. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
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| A/VII/5 |
Reunion and reaction: the compromise of 1877 and the end of reconstruction. By Comer Vann Woodward. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Company, 1956.
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Paperback, rebound.
Signature of Ralph Ellison of the fly leaf.
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| B/II/2 |
Revelation and divination in Ndembu ritual. By Victor Turner. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [c1975].
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1st printing.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The revelations of Dr. Modesto. By Alan Harrington. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
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1st Edition.
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| B/V/4 |
The revolt of the masses. By Jose Ortega Y Gasset. Authorized translation from the Spanish. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1932].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Revolutionary road. By Richard Yates. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1961.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Hardcover.
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| B/IV/3 |
The rhetoric of fiction. By Wayne Booth. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1961].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/3 |
The rhetoric of irony. By Wayne Booth. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1974].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/VII/3 |
A rhetoric of motives. By Kenneth Burke. New York : Prentice-Hall, 1950.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
Notes on scrap paper inserted.
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| A/VII/3 |
The rhetoric of religion: studies in logology. By Kenneth Burke. Boston : Beacon Press, [c1961].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Note in pen on back pastedown: "The American Constitution."
Notes within.
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| Deck E |
The rhetorical hero: An essay on the aesthetics of Andre Malraux. By William Righter. New York : Chilmark Press, 1964.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Some underlining and annotation throughout.
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| A/IV/5 |
The ribs of death. By Paul Zimmer. New York : October House, [c1967].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Richard Wright: A biography. Part I. By Constance Webb. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968.
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
Richard Wright: A biography. Part II. By Constance Webb. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968.
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Richard Wright: a biography. By Constance Webb. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/II/1 |
Richard Wright: an introduction to the man and his works. By Russel Carl Brignano. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [c1970].
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Hardcover /dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Richard Wright: Ordeal of a native son. By Addison Gayle. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1980.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Richard Wright. By David Bakish. New York : Frederick Ungar Publishing, [c1973].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/II/2 |
Richard Wright's Native son: a critical handbook. Edited by Richard Abcarian. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, [c1970].
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Paperback.
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| B/VII/1 |
The rise of the novel: studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. By Ian Watt. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/5 |
The ritual process: structure and anti-structure. By Victor Turner. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [1977].
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Paperback.
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| A/VI/4 |
Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa: the Frazier lecture, 1952. By Max Gluckman. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1954.
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Softbound.
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| B/II/4 |
Riverlisp: black memoirs. By Frederick Ward. Plattsburgh, NY : Tundra Books, 1974.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/III/5 |
The road through the wall. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Farrar, Strauss and Co., 1948.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Roar lion roar and other stories. By Irvin Faust. New York : Ransom House, 1964.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Robert Dinwiddie: Servant of the crown. By John Richard Alden. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973.
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| A/II/1 |
Robert Penn Warren Talking: interviews, 1950-1978. By Robert Penn Warren. Edited by Floyd C. Watkins and John H. Hiers. New York : Random House, [c1980].
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1st edition.
(Includes: interview with Ellison).
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| B/II/3 |
Roderick Hudson. By Henry James. London : John Lehmann, 1947.
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Hardcover.
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| B/I/5 |
Roll, Jordan, roll: the world the slaves made. By Eugene D. Genovese. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Romans: Les conquerants la condition humaine l'espoir. By Andre Malraux. Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1947.
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Bibliotheque de la Pleiade.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/2 |
Romantic image. By Frank Kermode. New York : Vintage Books, [1964].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/II/5 |
Romantic Poets: William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| B/VI/4 |
Romanticism and the modern ego. By Jacques Barzun. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1944.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The roots of American culture and other essays. By Constance Rourke. Edited with a preface by Van Wyck Brooks. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942.
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Annotated and underlined throughout.
Laid-in slips of paper with short rhymes on them found between pages 214 and 215 removed and housed separately; filed immediately
adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Rose and crown. By Sean O'Casey. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1952.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/5 |
The royal beasts and other works. By William Empson. Edited with an introduction by John Hafront. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [c1988].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/4 |
The royal way. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. New York : Random House, Modern Library Paperbacks, [c1935].
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Paperback, rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Card with specifications and binding paper sample for the books that Ellison had rebound in Rome inserted.
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| Deck E |
The royal way. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. New York : Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935.
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Signed by Ellison on front endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. By Omar Khayyam. London : Collins' Clear-Type Press, n.d.
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Signed by Fanny M. McConnell on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Rulewater and its people: An account of the Valley of the Rule and its inhabitants by George Tancred of Weens. By George Tancred. Edinburgh : Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable, 1907.
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Laid-in notes removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/1 |
Run away home: a novel. By Charles Christopher Mark. New York : Dull, Sloan, and Pearce, [c1960].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Rush to judgment: A critique of the Warren Commission's inquiry into the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J.D.
Tippitt and Lee Harvey Oswald. By Mark Lane. Introduction by Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/2 |
The Russian novel. By F.D. Reeve. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., [c1966].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/2 |
Russian writers: their lives and literature. By Janko Lavrin. New York : D. Van Nostrand Co., [c1954].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Article about Soviet talk inserted.
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| Deck E |
S.S. San Pedro. By James Gould Cozzens. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Fanny McConnell on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
S/Z: An essay. By Roland Barthes. Translated by Richard Miller. Preface by Richard Howard. New York : Hill & Wang, 1974.
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1st American Edition.
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| B/IV/5 |
The sacred and the profane: the nature of religion. By Mircea Eliade. Translated from French by Willard R. Trask. New York : Harper and Row, [1961].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/2 |
A sad heart at the supermarket: essays and fables. By Randall Jarrell. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Safou ke sathi. By Sunita. Delhi, India : Kamel Vir Parkashan, 1945.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper by the author.
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| Deck E |
Saint Peter relates an incident. Selected poems. By James Weldon Johnson. New York : The Viking Press, 1935.
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Inscribed to Fanny by author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
The salt garden: Poems. By Howard Nemerov. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1955.
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An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.
1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Salt. By Herbert Gold. New York : The Dial Press, 1963.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Sam's legacy. By Jay Neugeboren. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Sammy Younge, Jr.: The story of the first Black student to die in today's Liberation Movement. By James Forman. New York : Grove Press, Inc., 1969.
|
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed, "To Ralph Ellison who pioneered at Tuskegee. My compliments" by the author on cover of proof.
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| B/VII/2 |
Samuel Beckett: the comic gamut. By Ruby Cohn. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [c1962].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
Samuel Beckett. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. London : Bowes and Bowes, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author.
|
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| B/I/3 |
Sanctuary. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, [c1931, 1958].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/I/3 |
Sanctuary. By William Faulkner. New York : Modern Library, [c1931].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VIII/3 |
Sanctuary. By William Faulkner. Edited with an afterward and notes by Noel Polk. New York : Random House, [c1981].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/1 |
Sanskrit love lyrics. Translated by P. Lal. Calcutta : Writers Workshop, [c1966].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed from the author on front free end paper.
Copy No. 3.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Letter of self-introduction from translator to Ellison inserted.
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| B/I/4 |
Sartoris. By William Faulkner. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1951].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| B/I/4 |
Sartoris. By William Faulkner. Introduction Robert Cantwell. New York : New American Library, [1959].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary page.
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| B/I/4 |
Sartoris. By William Faulkner. Introduction by Robert Cantwell. New York : New American Library, Signet, [1953].
|
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Paperback.
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| B/III/4 |
The satyricon. By Petronius. Translated by William Burnaby. Introduction by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. New York : Modern Library, [n.d.].
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Sign "Neal F. Herriford" crossed out.
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| A/III/2 |
Saul Bellow. By Pierre Dommergues. Paris : Editions Bernard Grasset, [c1967].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| Deck E |
The savage God: A study of suicide. By A. (Alfred) Alvarez. New York : Random House, 1972.
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1st American Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/5 |
Savage holiday. By Richard Wright. New York : Avon Publications, [c1954].
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Paperback.
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| B/V/3 |
The savage mind. By Claude Levi-Strauss. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1967].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/V/4 |
The scarlet letter: a romance. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Scattergunning. By Ray P. Holland. Decorations by William J. Schaldach. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/4 |
Scenes from the drama of European literature: six essays. By Erich Auerbach. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title page.
|
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| A/IV/2 |
The schatten affair. By Frederick Morton. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author.
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| Deck E |
School at the frontier. By Geza Ottlik. Translated by Kathleen Szasz. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The school for dictators. By Ignazio Silone. Translated from the Italian by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1938.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Underlined and annotated throughout.
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| Deck E |
School for soldiers: West Point and the profession of arms. By Joseph Ellis and Robert Moore. New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
School for soldiers: West Point and the profession of arms. By Joseph Ellis and Robert Moore. New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
The school for wives: a comedy in five acts, 1662. By Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere. Translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. New York : Harper, Brace, Jovanovich,
[c1971].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Review of play based on Wilbur's translation inserted.
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| A/V/3 |
Science at War. By George W. Gray. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1943].
|
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Paperback.
(Armed Services Editions).
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| B/V/5 |
Science of humanity. By Giambatticta Vico. Edited by Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Phillip Verene. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University
Press, [c1976].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| Deck E |
Science primers. Logic. By W. Stanley Jevons. New York : American Book Company, n.d.
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| Deck E |
Scott and Ernest: The authority of failure and the authority of success. By Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York : Random House, 1978.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Scott Fitzgerald. By Andrew Turnbull. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962.
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| A/III/4 |
Scottsboro limited: four poems and a play in verse by Langston Hughes. By Langston Hughes. With illustration by Pretiss Taylor. New York : Golden Stair Press, 1932.
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Sea of Cortez: A leisurely journal of travel and research. By John Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts. New York : The Viking Press, 1941.
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| A/V/3 |
The seaman's handbook for shore leave. By Henry Howard. New York : American Merchant Marine Library Association, [1944].
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8th edition.
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| Deck E |
Search and destroy: A report by the Commission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and the police. New York : Metropolitan Applied Research Center, Inc., 1973.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed, "To Ralph-It is stark cruel realities of this sort which seems to me beyond the novel...the cruelties, the inhumanity
of man to man-fortunately can not stifle the cry, the rage, the concern which power creativity and hope and progress" on front
free endpaper.
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| A/V/1 |
Search for a Place: black separatism and Africa, 1860. By M.R. Delany and Robert Campbell. Introduction: by Howard H. Bell. Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, [c1969].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
The search for Captain Slocum: A biography. By Walter Magnes Teller. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956.
|
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on half-title page.
|
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| Deck E |
The search for the beloved: A clinical investigation of the trauma of birth and pre-natal conditioning. By Nandor Fodor. New York : Hermitage Press, Inc., 1949.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note cards with annotation on them removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Seashells of North America. By R. Tucker Abbott. Illustrated by George F Sandstrom. Under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim. New York : Golden Press,
1968.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Season of fear. By Guy Owen. New York : Random House, 1960.
|
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The seasons' difference. By Frederick Buechner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The second happiest day [by] John Phillips [pseud.]. By John Phillips. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1953.
|
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1st Edition.
|
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| B/IV/2 |
The second sex. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated and edited by H. N. Parchley. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
|
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/III/3 |
Second skin. By John Hawkes. New York : New Directions, [c1964].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| A/VII/3 |
Secondary worlds: essays. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1968].
|
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Seconds. By David Ely. New York : Pantheon Books / Random House, 1963.
|
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1st Printing.
Laid-in beverage list from American Airlines removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The secret swinger. By Alan Harrington. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Seduction of the minotaur. By Anais Nin. Denver, CO : Alan Swallow, 1961.
|
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
The seed beneath the snow. By Ignazio Silone. Translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1942.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/1 |
Segregation: the inner conflict in the South. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1956].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Seize the day. By Saul Bellow. New York : The Viking Press, 1956.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by the author on front free endpaper.
Laid-in found dust jacket in 4 pieces; removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/2 |
A selected correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1950-1981. By Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley. Edited by Paul Jay. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.
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1st paperback printing.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Selected essays, 1917-1932. By T.S. Eliot. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Very light underlining throughout.
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| B/VI/4 |
Selected Essays. By William Troy. Edited and with introduction by Stanley Edgar Hyman. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Selected essays. By Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. Translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller and Norbert Guterman. Garden City, NY :
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note and card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/1 |
Selected essays. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1958].
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| Deck E |
Selected letters of Malcolm Lowry. By Malcolm Lowry. Edited by Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Selected letters. By William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York : Random House, [c1977].
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1st trade edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Strand bookstore bookmark inserted.
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| B/III/2 |
Selected passages from correspondence with friends. By Nickolai Gogol. Translated by Jesse Zeldin. Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/V/5 |
Selected plays. By William Shakespeare. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Selected poems 1951-1977. By A.R. Ammons. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1977.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in photograph of author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
Selected poems, 1923-1975. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1976].
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1st trade edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on title page.
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| B/V/2 |
Selected poems, including the Woman at the Washington Zoo. By Randall Jarrell. New York : Atheneum, 1964.
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1st Atheneum edition.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Selected poems: In five sets. By Laura Riding. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973.
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1st American Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/1 |
Selected poems: new and old, 1923-1966. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1966].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marked as "A gift from Red".
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| B/IV/5 |
Selected poems. By Robert Frost. With an introduction by C. Day Lewis. Hammondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, [1955].
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Paperback.
(The Penguin Poets series).
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/VII/5 |
Selected poems. By Robert Hayden. New York : October House, [c1966].
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1st edition.
Review copy.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/1 |
Selected poems. By Gwendolyn Brooks. New York : Harper and Row, [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VII/2 |
Selected poems. By Claude McKay. With an introduction by John Dewey and a biographical note by Max Eastman. New York : Bookman Associates,
1953.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/5 |
Selected poems. By Derek Walcott. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Co., [c1964].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/IV/2 |
Selected poems. By Pablo Neruda. Edited and translated by Ben Belitt. Introduction by Louis Monguio. New York : Grove Press, [c1961].
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1st printing.
Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Neruda.
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| A/IV/3 |
Selected poems. By Leopold Sedar Senghor. Translated and introduced by John Reed and Clive Lake. New York : Atheneum, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/IV/5 |
Selected poems. By Frederico Garcia Lorca. Translated by J.L Gile and Stephen Spender. New York : Transatlantic Arts, Inc., [1947].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Selected Poems. By Richard Hugo. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1979.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Selected poetry and prose of Coleridge. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited, with an introduction by Donald A. Stauffer. New York : The Modern Library (Random
House), 1951.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Selected prose and poetry. By Stephen Crane. Edited and with an introduction by William M. Gibson. New York : Rinehart and Co., [c1950].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page and flyleaf.
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| B/II/5 |
Selected tales and poems. By Herman Melville. Edited with an introduction by Richard Chase. New York : Holt, Rinehard and Wilson, [1960].
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9th printing.
Paperback.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Selected works in twelve volumes. Volume XI: The theoretical principles of Marxism. By Vladimir Lenin. Translated from the Russian as issued by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow, U.S.S.R. New York
: International Publishers, n.d.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/1 |
The selected works of John Bunyan, containing the Pilgrim's Progress, the Holy War, and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. By John Bunyan. With an introductory by James Montgomery and the life of the author by Reverend Thomas Scott. With chromo-lithograph
illustrations, after design by T. Stothard, R.A. and numerous wood engravings. Glasgow : William Collins, 1861.
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from Roy Coleman, 3/27/78.
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| Deck E |
The selected writings of John Jay Chapman. By John Jay Chapman. Edited and with an introduction by Jacques Barzun. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1957.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Selected writings. By Lafcardio Hearn. Edited by Henry Goodman. With an introduction by Malcolm Howley. New York : Citadel Press, [c1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Price marks on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The selected writings. By Paul Eluard. Translated by Lloyd Alexander. New York : New Directions, n.d.
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| Deck E |
The selected writings. By Paul Valery. New York : New Directions Books / James Laughlin, 1950.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/5 |
Self-analysis. By Karen Horney. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1942].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Self-Portrait: Book people picture themselves. From the collection of Burt Britton. New York : Random House, 1976.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on half-title page.
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| B/V/2 |
The sense of an ending: studies in the theory of fiction. By Frank Kermode. New York : Oxford University Press, 1967.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A separate reality: Further conversations with Don Juan. By Carlos Castenada. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1971.
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| B/VI/1 |
The Sermons of John Donne. By John Donne. Selected and introduced by Theodore A. Gill. New York : Meridian Books, [1958].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| Deck E |
Set this house on fire. By William Styron. New York : Random House, 1960.
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1st Printing.
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| B/IV/5 |
Seven types of ambiguity. By William Empson. New York : New Directions Books, [1947].
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Sex, symbolism, and psychology in literature. By Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1948.
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| Deck E |
Shadow and act. By Ralph Ellison. London : Secker and Warburg, [1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
A/II/4.
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| A/II/2 |
Shadow and act. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Vintage Books, 1972.
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1st Vintage Book Edition.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Shadow and act. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Fanny Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in note from publisher and book review removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/2 |
Shadow and act. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, [1966].
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3rd printing.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Shadow and act. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1964.
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1st Printing.
Autographed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Also on title page is written "a gift from Donald Klopfer".
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| A/II/2 |
Shadow and act. By Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, [c1964].
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1st printing.
A card from the Museum of African art inserted.
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| A/IV/2 |
Shadow and substance: essays in theory and structure of politics. By John P. Roche. New York : MacMillan, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by ? on front free end paper.
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| B/I/5 |
Shaft. By Ernest Tidyman. New York : MacMillan Co., [c1970].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| B/IV/2 |
Shakespeare and the nature of man. By Theodore Spencer. New York : Macmillan, 1942.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/1 |
Shakespeare our contemporary. By Jan Kott. Translated by Boleslaw Taborski. Garden City,NY : Doubleday, 1964.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/1 |
Shakespeare: at the last phase. By Derek Traversi. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [1955].
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Hardcover / double dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/1 |
Shakespeare: modern essays in criticism. Edited by Leonard Dean. New York : Oxford University Press, 1961.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Shakespeare: The pattern in his carpet. By Francis Fergusson. New York : Delacorte Press, 1970.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| Deck E |
Shakespeare's comedy of As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. Preface and glossary by Israel Gollancz. London : J.M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 1895.
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The Temple Shakespeare.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Shakespeare's comedy of The Tempest. By William Shakespeare. Preface and glossary by Israel Gollancz. London : J.M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 1894.
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The Temple Shakespeare.
Hardcover.
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| B/IV/1 |
Shakespeare's imagination: a study of the psychology of association and inspiration. By Edward A. Armstrong. London : Lindsay Drummond Ltd., 1946.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Blackwell's bookshop mark.
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| Deck E |
Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. Preface and glossary by Israel Gollancz. London : J.M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 1895.
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The Temple Shakespeare.
Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Preface and glossary by Israel Gollancz. London : J.M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 1895.
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The Temple Shakespeare.
Hardcover.
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| B/IV/1 |
Shakespearean tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. By A.C. Bradley. London : Macmillan and Co., 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/4 |
Shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstacy. By Mircea Eliade. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/3 |
The shapeless god: essays on modern fiction. By Henry J. Mooney, Jr. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A shark-infested rice pudding. By Sylvia Wright. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969.
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1st Edition.
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| A/III/2 |
Sherman's March. By Burke Davis. New York : Random House, 1980.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
Letter from publisher inserted.
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| B/VII/3 |
Sherwood Anderson's memoirs. By Sherwood Anderson. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1942].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/3 |
The shield of Achilles. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1955].
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1st printing.
LCCN 55-6653.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper and upside-down on rear free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The shining stranger: An unorthodox interpretation of Jesus and his mission. By Preston Harold. Introduction by Gerald Heard. New York : The Wayfarer Press, 1967.
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Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Shock of recognition: The development of literature in the United States recorded by the men who made it. Volume I: The 19th century. Edited by Edmund Wilson. Illustrations by Robert F. Hallock. New York : Grosset & Dunlap,
1955.
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Signed by Ellison.
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| Deck E |
Shock of recognition: The development of literature in the United States recorded by the men who made it. Volume II: The 20th century. Edited by Edmund Wilson. Illustrations by Robert F. Hallock. New York : Grosset & Dunlap,
1955.
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Signed by Ellison.
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| A/VII/5 |
A short history of the Civil War: ordeal by fire. By Fletcher Pratt. [S.l.] : Pocket Book, Collector's Editions, [c1948].
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Revised edition.
Hardcover.
Signature of Ellison on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
The short stories of Ernest Hemingway: the first forty-nine stories and the play The Fifth Column. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Modern Library, [1942].
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1st Modern Library Giant edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in part of dust jacket with photograph of Hemingway removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this
book.
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| Deck E |
The short year. By Barbara Ward. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.
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| Deck E |
The shotgun book. By Jack O'Connor. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/4 |
The show of violence. By Frederick Wertham. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and co., 1949.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Newspaper clipping from NY Times on death penalty for sex criminals in California (Sunday, Dec 18, 1949) inserted.
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| B/V/1 |
A Shropshire lad. By A.E. Housman. With decorations by Aldren Watson. Mount Vernon : Peter Pauper Press, [n.d.].
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Hardcover.
Slipcover.
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| Deck E |
Sick friends. By Ivan Gold. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1969.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/2 |
The sickness unto death. By Soren Kierkegaard. Translated with an introduction by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1941.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Sideman. By Osborn Duke. New York : Criterion Books, 1956.
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| B/VI/3 |
Sight and insight. New York : McDowell, Obolensky, [c1959]. By Alexander Eliot. Sight and insight. New York : McDowell, Obolensky, [c1959].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
A sign for Cain: an exploration of human violence. By Frederick Wertham. New York : Paperback Library, [1969].
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page: "For Ralph Ellison - who helped to make the invisible visible."
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| A/IV/1 |
Significations: signs, symbols and images in the interpretation of religion. By Charles H. Long. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, [c1986].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison.
Word "invisibility" circled on p.150.
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| B/II/4 |
The signifying monkey: a theory of African-American literary criticism. By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Clipping about Gates inserted.
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| Deck E |
Simeon: Poems by Donald Finkel. By Donald Finkel. New York : Atheneum, 1964.
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1st Edition.
Two copies in Ellison's library.
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| A/III/5 |
Simple speaks his mind. By Langston Hughes. New York : Simon and Schuster, [c1950].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on preliminary page.
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| A/III/4 |
Simple takes a wife. By Langston Hughes. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1953.
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Review copy.
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| B/I/5 |
The sin of the prophet. By Truman Nelson. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1952.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VII/5 |
A single pebble. By John Hersey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
Sinistro and celebration: 19 poems by A.E.T. [Los Angeles] : Cole-Holmquist Press, [c1956].
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Limited edition of 200 copies, number 59 of 100 copies numbered and signed by author.
Hardcover / dust jacket glued to cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the preliminary page.
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| A/VII/2 |
Sissie. By John A. Williams. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [c1963].
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Paperback.
Advance copy.
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| Deck E |
Sisson's word and expression locator. By A.F. Sisson. West Nyack, NY : Parker Publishing Company, Inc., 1983.
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper and on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
The six queer things. By C. Saint John Sprigg. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937.
|
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Published for The Crime Club, Inc.
1st Edition.
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| B/II/3 |
A skeleton key to Finnegan's Wake. By Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1944].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marked as "A gift from John Woodburn." Notes within.
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| Deck E |
A sketchbook chronicle of the CBS Playhouse production "The People Next Door." By Daniel Schwartz. New York : CBS Television Network, 1969.
|
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Annotated by Ralph Ellison throughout.
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| Deck E |
Slaughterhouse-Five or The children's crusade: A duty-dance with death. By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. New York : Delacorte Press, 1969.
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| A/VI/2 |
The slave community: plantation life in the antebellum South. By John W. Blassingame. New York : Oxford University Press, 1972.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VI/3 |
Slavery and the annexation of Texas. With collaboration of Lois Bannister Merk. By Frederick Merk. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VI/3 |
Slavery and the numbers game: a critique of Time on the Cross. By Herbert G. Gutman. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [c1975].
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Paperback.
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| A/VI/2 |
Slavery in the cities: the South, 1820-1860. By Richard Wade. New York : Oxford University Press, 1964.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes on back pastedown.
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| A/VI/3 |
Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake: [Essays from Colonial Williamsburg]. By David Brion Davis. Williamsburg, VA : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, [c1986].
|
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A pamphlet "Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake: teacher's notes" inserted.
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| Deck E |
Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake. By David Brion David. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986.
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Laid-in Teacher's Notes for this volume removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/2 |
Slavery: a problem in American institutional and intellectual life. By Stanley M. Elkins. With an introduction by Nathan Glazer. New York : Grosset and Dunlap, [c1963].
|
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Paperback.
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| A/V/2 |
Slaves without masters: the free Negro in the antebellum South. By Ira Berlin. New York : Pantheon Books, [c.1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| Deck E |
The smoking mountain: Stories of Germany during the occupation. By Kay Boyle. Foreword by William L. Shirer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
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1st Borzoi Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The snake pit. By Mary Jane Ward. New York : Random House, 1946.
|
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Snow poems. By A.R. Ammons. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1977.
|
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
So this is depravity. By Russell Baker. New York : Congdon & Lattes, Inc., 1980.
|
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1st Edition.
Number 45 of 500 copies.
Signed by the author.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Social Etiquette of New York. New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1885.
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|
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| B/V/1 |
The social history of art. By Arnold Hauser. In two volumes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Slip case.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper of Vol. 2.
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| Deck E |
Social psychology. By Otto Klineberg. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1940.
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Annotated throughout.
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| Deck E |
The sociological imagination. By C. Wright Mills. New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
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| B/IV/2 |
The sociology of the absurd, or the application of professor X. By Daniel J. Boorstin. Annotated with introduction and postscript by Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Simon and Schuster,
[c1970].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VI/2 |
Sojourner truth: God's faithful pilgrim. By Arthur Huff Fauser. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [c1938].
|
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Hardcover.
An article and parts of dust jacket inserted.
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| Deck E |
Soldier in the rain. By William Goldman. New York : Atheneum, 1960.
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1st Edition.
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| B/I/4 |
Soldier's pay. By William Faulkner. New York : New American Library, Signet, [1952].
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Paperback.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Solitudes crowded with loneliness. By Bob Kaufman. New York : New Directions Books, [c1965].
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1st printing.
Review copy.
Paperback.
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| A/V/3 |
Solo B-Flat Cornet. Collected pieces of sheet music. [S.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
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Hardcover.
Display.
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| A/IV/4 |
Solo. By Stanford Whitmore. London : Victor Gollancz, 1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/IV/5 |
Somebody's angel child: the story of Bessie Smith. By Carman Moore. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [c1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Something about a soldier. By Mark Harris. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1957.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Something to remember me by: Three tales. By Saul Bellow. New York : The Viking Press, 1991.
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Inscribed, "To Fanny and Ralph with love" on half title page by the author.
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| Deck E |
Sometimes a great notion. By Ken Kesey. New York : The Viking Press, 1964.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
A son of the middle border. By Hamlin Garland. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1928.
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| Deck E |
Song: I want a witness. By Michael S. Harper. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
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Laid-in letter from author removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed to the Ellisons by the author on half-title page.
Autographed by the author on the title page.
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| Deck E |
Songs from an afro/phone. By Eugene B. Redmond. East St. Louis : Black River Writers, 1972.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed, "To Mr. Ellison and household-May the Gods continue to guide/watch over your efforts and to infuse your creative
imagination and let your light shine! Between the Shadow and the Act; the fantasy and the fact-the visible the known-Press
on!" by the author on half-title page.
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| A/III/5 |
Songs in the night. By Harriet Price Jacobson. New York : Exposition Press, [c1947].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on dedication page.
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| Deck E |
Songs of peace, freedom, and protest. By Tom Glazer. New York : David McKay Company, Inc., 1970.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Soon one morning: New writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. Selected, edited, with an introduction and biographical notes by Herbert Hill. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in magazine paged removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Handwritten notes on rear free endpaper refer to pages in the section on Ralph Ellison in the book.
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| Deck E |
Soul on ice. By Eldridge Cleaver. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/3 |
Sound and symbol: music and the external world. By Victor Zuckerkandl. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1956].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/4 |
The sound and the fury. By William Faulkner. New York : Vintage, [c1956].
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Paperback.
Stamp of Scheitzer Chair Library.
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| B/I/4 |
The sound and the fury. By William Faulkner. With a new appendix as a foreword by the author. New York : Random House, [c1956].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the title page.
Notes within.
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| Deck E |
The sound of surprise: 46 pieces on jazz. By Whitney Balliett. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
South Africa in the American mind. By Alan Pifer. Commemoration Day lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 14,
1981. New York : Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1981.
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| A/VII/5 |
The South and the Southerner. By Ralph McGill. BostoN: : Little, Brown and Co., [c1963].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/5 |
The South as it is 1865-1866. By John Richard Dennett. Edited and with introduction by Henry M. Christman. New York : Viking Press, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VI/1 |
South of freedom. By Carl Thomas Rowan. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st edition. Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/IV/5 |
South of us: the characters of the countries and people of South America. By Waldo Frank. New York : Garden City Publishing, [1940].
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Hardcover.
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| A/IV/2 |
South to a very old place. By Albert Murray. New York : McGraw-Hill Co., [c1971].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VII/4 |
The South today: 100 years after Appomattox. Edited by Willie Morris. New York : Harper and Row Publishers, [c1965].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
South: Modern Southern literature in its cultural setting. Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and Robert D. Jacobs. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.
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Dolphin Books.
1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
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| B/III/4 |
The Southern mystique. By Howard Zinn. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Marks and notes within.
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| A/V/2 |
Southern prophecy: the prosperity of the South depends upon the elevation of the Negro (1889). By Lewis H. Blair. Edited with an introduction by C. Van Woodward. Boston : Little, Brown, [c.1964].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VIII/1 |
A southern vanguard: the John Peale Bishop memorial volume. Edited by Allen Tate. New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [c1947].
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Stamps and notes on endpapers.
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| Deck E |
Soviet military power: The Pentagon's propaganda document, annotated and corrected. By Tom Gervasi. New York : Vintage Books / Random House, 1988.
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A Vintage Original, 1st Edition.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the producer Bob Adelman.
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| B/IV/5 |
Space, time and architecture: the growth of a new tradition. By Siegfried Giedion. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1962.
|
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4th edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Fanny.
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| Deck E |
Spain. By Salvador de Madariaga. New York : Creative Age Press, Inc., 1943.
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| B/VI/1 |
The Spanish temper. By Y.S. Pritchet. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A spark is struck! Jack Hall and the Ilwu in Hawaii. By Sanford Zalburg. Honolulu, HI : The University Press of Hawaii, 1979.
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Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph on half-title page by the author.
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| Deck E |
Speaking for you: The vision of Ralph Ellison. Edited by Kimberly W. Benston. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1987.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/4 |
A special rage. By Gilbert Moors. New York : Harper and Row, [1971].
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Uncorrected proof.
Paperback.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Specimen days, democratic vistas, and other prose. By Walt Whitman. Edited by Louise Pound. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1935.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Spectral emanations: New and selected poems. By John Hollander. New York : Atheneum, 1978.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/3 |
Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, 1957. By Albert Camus. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
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1st edition.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The speed of darkness. By Muriel Rukeyser. New York : Random House, 1968.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in note and card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Sphere: The form of a motion. By A.R. Ammons. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1974.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Spirituals: Geistliche lieder der neger Amerikas. Originaltexte Melodien und Ubertragungen. Herausgeber Joachim Ernst Berendt Paridam von dem Knesebeck. Munchen : Nymphenburger
Verlagshandlung, 1955.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/3 |
The spoils of Poynton. By Henry James. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1924].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
A sport and a pastime. By James Salter. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967.
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Paris Review Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The spy: The story of a superfluous man. By Maxim Gorky. Authorized translation by Thomas Seltzer. New York : B.W. Huebsch, 1908.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Stacy tower. By Robert H.K. Walter. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1963.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Stained glass: Poems. By Rosanna Warren. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by the author on half-title page.
Laid-in hand-written letter from author to Ralph and Fanny removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to
this book.
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| Deck E |
Staking a claim: Jake Simmons, Jr. and the making of an African-American oil dynasty. By Jonathan Greenberg. New York : Atheneum, 1990.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Stalin: A new world seen through one man. By Henri Barbusse. Translated by Vyvyan Holland. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1935.
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| Deck E |
Standard question book and home study outlines. Buffalo, NY : The Frontier Press Company, 1919.
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Inscription on front free endpaper states, " Fanny Mae McConnell from Mother Dear."
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| A/III/5 |
Standards: a chronicle of books for our times. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York : Horizon Press, [c1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Stanley's way: A sentimental journey through Central Africa. By Thomas Sterling. New York : Atheneum, 1960.
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1st American Edition.
Laid-in bookmark removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/2 |
A star pointed north. By Edmund Fuller. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1946].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/1 |
The state of France: a study of contemporary France. By Herbert Lüthy. Translated from the German by Eric Mosbacher. London : Secker Warburg, 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
State of the Nation. Edited by David Boroff. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
States of grace. By Francis Steegmuller. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, Inc., 1946.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Stature of Thomas Mann. Edited by Charles Neider. New York : New Directions Books / James Laughlin, 1947.
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| Deck E |
Staying alive. By David Wagoner. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1966.
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| Deck E |
Staying on alone: The letters of Alice B. Toklas. By Alice B. Toklas. Edited by Edward Burns. Introduction by Gilbert A. Harrison. New York : Liveright, 1973.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/2 |
Stealing the fire: the art and protest of James Baldwin. By Horace A. Porter. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [c1989].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Address label of Ralph Ellison on front pastedown.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Stephen Crane: a biography. By Robert W. Stallman. New York : George Braziller, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Stephen Crane: letters. Edited by R.W. By Stephen Crane. Stallman and Lillian Gilkes. With an introduction by R.W. Stallman. New York : New York University
Press, 1960.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/1 |
Stephen Crane. By John Berryman. New York : William Sloane Associations, [c1950].
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2nd printing.
(American Men of Letters).
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Stephen Hero: A part of the first draft of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. By James Joyce. Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer. New York : New Directions,
1944.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VII/5 |
A stillness at Appomattox. By Bruce Catton. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1954.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Stitch. By Richard G. Stern. New York : Harper & Row, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| A/III/2 |
Storefront church. By William Warren Cuney. London : Paul Brennan, 1973.
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Waldo Ellison by the author on title page.
|
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| A/V/4 |
Stories from Rudyard Kipling. By Rudyard Kipling. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The stories of John Cheever. By John Cheever. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Stories of three decades. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.
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1st American Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Signed by Langston Hughes on front endpaper.
Laid-in pieces of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Stories. By Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, et al. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudhay, 1956.
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1st Printing.
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| A/V/5 |
Stories. By Guy de Maupassant. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Press, [c1983].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The storming of the mind: Inside the Consciousness Revolution. By Robert Hunter. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
A story for Teddy and others. By Harvey Swados. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1965.
|
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Advance Copy.
1st Printing.
Laid-in letter and note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The story of a novel: The genesis of Doctor Faustus. By Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/5 |
Storytellers and their Art: an anthology. By Georgiana Trask and Charles Burkhart. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1963.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Strange fruit. By Lillian Smith. New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
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| A/VII/1 |
Stranger and alone: a novel. By J.Saunders Redding. New York : Harper, Brace, and Co., [c1950].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Advance copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The stranger. By Albert Camus. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
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1st American Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Strangers and afraid. By Thomas Sterling. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1952.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Strangers and graves. By Peter S. Feibleman. New York : Atheneum, 1966.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/5 |
Strangers to this ground: cultural diversity in contemporary American writing. By W.M. Frohock. Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, [c1961].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| Deck E |
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a friendship 1948-1971. By Robert Craft. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The straw man. By Jean Giono. Translated from the French by Phyllis Johnson. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
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1st American Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in New York Central Railroad receipt removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The streaks of the tulip: Selected criticism. By William Jay Smith. [S.l.] : Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1977.
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1st Printing.
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| B/VI/5 |
Stream of consciousness in the modern novel. By Robert Humphrey. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, [c1958].
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Paperback Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The street. By Ann Petry. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Bookplate of Jean and Chester Himes on front pastedown.
|
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| B/VII/3 |
The strenuous age in American literature. By Grant C. Knight. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [c1954].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Stride toward freedom: The Montgomery story. By Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1958.
|
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/III/4 |
Striking the stones. By Daniel G. Hoffman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1968.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| B/V/3 |
Structural anthropology. By Claude Levi-Strauss. Translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundefest Schoepf. London : Basic Books,
[1963].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/V/5 |
The structure and meaning of psychoanalysis. By William Healy, Augusta F. Bronner and Anna Mae Bowers. By William Healy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/I/2 |
The structure of complex words. By William Empson. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Books, [n.d.].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/IV/5 |
The structure of scientific revolutions. By Thomas S. Kuhn. Second edition, enlarged. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by John (Callahan?).
|
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| B/VI/5 |
The structure of the novel. By Edwin Muir. London : Hogarth Press, [1949].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/VI/1 |
The struggle that must be: an autobiography. By Harry Edwards. New York : Macmillan, [c1980].
|
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Uncorrected proof.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The stubborn structure: Essays on criticism and society. By Northrop Frye. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1970.
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| B/IV/3 |
Studies in a dying culture. By Christopher Caudwell. With an introduction by John Strachey. London : John Lane, the Bodley Head, [1938].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
|
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| B/V/3 |
Studies in classic American literature. By D.H. Lawrence. New York : Thomas Seltzer, 1923.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Studies in European realism: A sociological survey of the writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and others. By Georg Lukacs. Translated by Edith Bone. Foreword by Professor Roy Pascal. London : Hillway Publishing Co., 1950.
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| Deck E |
Studies in European realism. By Georg Lukacs. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.
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Universal Library Original.
1st American Edition.
Laid-in place-card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/IV/2 |
Studies in Henry James. By R.P. Blackmur. Edited with an introduction by Veronica A. Macowsky. New York : New Directions, [c1983].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| B/VI/3 |
Studies in iconology: humanistic themes in the art of the Renaissance. By Erwin Panofsky. New York : Harper and Row, [1962].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
|
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| A/V/3 |
The study of poetry. By Paul Landis and A.R. Entwistle. New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1929.
|
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on front pastedown.
|
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| A/II/2 |
A study of Ralph Ellison's published work viewed in the context of the theme of identity in Negro American literature. By H.K. Selke. [S.l.] : Christian-Albrechts J. Kiel, 1975.
|
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Paperback.
Dissertation.
Inscribed by author to Ellison.
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| Deck E |
The stunt man. By Paul Brodeur. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
|
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Galley of 1st Edition.
|
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| B/IV/5 |
Style and temper: studies in french fiction, 1925-1960. By W.M. Frohock. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1967.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
|
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| B/V/5 |
The substance of history of European morals: (From Augustus to Charlemagne). By William Edward Hartpole Lecky. New York : Vanguard Press, [1927].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The subterraneans. By Jack Kerouac. New York : Grove Press, Inc., 1958.
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| Deck E |
Successful color photography: The master guide to better color photography, including latest techniques and films. By Andreas Feininger. 4th Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall Inc., 1968.
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| Deck E |
Suffer little children. By Marion Palfi. New York : Oceana Publications, 1952.
|
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Autographed by the author on title page.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny as Christmas present from Langston Hughes on title page.
|
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| Deck E |
Suicide Note. By Christopher Davis. New York : Harper & Row, 1977.
|
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Suicide Note. By Christopher Davis. New York : Harper & Row, 1977.
|
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/1 |
The Sullivan county sketches. By Stephen Crane. Edited and with an introduction by Melvin Schoberlin. Illustrations by George Vander Sluis. Syracuse
: Syracuse University Press, [c1949].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The summing up. By W. Somerset Maugham. New York : The Literary Guild of America, Inc., 1938.
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Laid-in annotated note and newspaper clippings removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/1 |
The sun also rises. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [c1954].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary leaf.
Notes within.
Page of typed and printed notes on stories inserted.
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| B/II/1 |
The sun also rises. By Ernest Hemingway. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. New York : Modern Library, [1930].
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1st Modern Library edition.
Hardcover.
Marked: "property of Lucille Black."
Marks within.
Notes inserted.
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| B/V/3 |
Sunday after the war. By Henry Miller. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [c1944].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/5 |
The sundial. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy, [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Supergrow: Essays and reports on imagination in America. By Benjamin DeMott. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1969.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VII/3 |
Sut Lovingood. By George Washington Harris. Edited with an introduction by Brom Weber. New York : Grove Press, [c1954].
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Hardcover.
Complimentary copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Note from a student inserted.
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| B/III/4 |
Suttree. By Cormic McCarthy. New York : Random House, [c1979].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
New York Times book review inserted.
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| A/VII/1 |
Swallow the lake. By Clarence Major. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [c1970].
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1st edition.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The sweet science: Boxing and boxiana-a ringside view. By A.J. Liebling. New York : The Viking Press, 1956.
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| B/VII/3 |
Symbolism and American literature. By Charles Feidelson. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1953].
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/IV/4 |
Symbols and social theory. By Hugh Dalziel Duncan. New York : Oxford University Press, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| B/VI/3 |
Symbols in society. By Hugh Dalziel Duncan. New York : Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Synergetics: Explorations in the geometry of thinking. By R. Buckminster Fuller. In collaboration with E.J. Applewhite. Preface and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb. New York
: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Synoptic history of classical rhetoric. Edited by James J. Murphy. New York : Random House, 1972.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VIII/2 |
T.S. Eliot: a symposium for his seventieth birthday. Edited by Neville Braybrook. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, [1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/2 |
T.S. Eliot. By M.C. Bradbrook. London : Longmans, Green and Co., [1955].
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Revised edition.
Paperback.
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| B/I/2 |
T.S. Eliot. By Leonard Unger. Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 1964.
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(University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, No.8).
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Tactics on trout. By Ray Ovington. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/4 |
A tale of two cities. By Charles Dickens. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1983].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Tales by LeRoi Jones. By Imamu Amiri Baraka. New York : Grove Press, 1967.
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1st Printing.
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| A/V/4 |
Tales from the Arabian night. Translated by Sir Richard Burton. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1978].
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Hardcover.
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| A/V/5 |
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. By Edgar Allan Poe. With the illustrations of Harry Clarke. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].Hardcover.
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| B/VII/5 |
Tales of Grimm and Anderson. Selected by Frederick Jacobi. Introduction by W.H. Auden. New York : Modern Library, [c1952].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Tales told of the fathers: Poems by John Hollander. By John Hollander. New York : Atheneum, 1975.
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1st Edition.
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| A/II/3 |
Talkin and testifyin: the language of black America. By Geneva Smitherman. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Talking to myself: A memoir of my times. By Studs Terkel. New York : Pantheon Books, 1977.
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/1 |
Tally's corner: a study of Negro street corner men. By Elliot Liebow. With foreword by Hyllan Lewis. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1967].
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Paperback.
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| A/III/4 |
Tambourines to glory. By Langston Hughes. New York : John Day Co., [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/1 |
The tangled bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazer, and Freud as imaginative writers. By Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/3 |
The tangled fire of William Faulkner. By William Van O'Connor. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [c1954].
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Hardcover.
Bard College bookplate and marks within.
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| Deck E |
Tar baby. By Toni Morrison. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
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1st trade edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed from the author on front free end paper.
A/IV/2.
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| Deck E |
The tattooed countess: A romantic novel with a happy ending. By Carl Van Vechten. New York : A.L. Burt Company, 1924.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
Technics and civilization. By Lewis Mumford. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [1938].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed "Halliwell."
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| B/VI/3 |
Technique and personality. By Margaret Mead, Junius B. Bird, and Hans Himmelheber. New York : Museum of Primitive Art, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Teeth, dying and other matters. By Richard G. Stern. New York : Harper & Row, 1964.
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/3 |
Tell it like it is. By Chuck Stone. New York : Trident Press, 1967.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Photo of the author inserted.
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| B/IV/1 |
The tempest. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Frank Kermode. Arden Edition. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1958].
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6th edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The temple and the house, by Lord Raglan (FitzRoy Richard Somerset). By Baron Raglan. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1964.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/4 |
The temptation of the West. By Andre Malraux. Translated and with an introduction by Robert Hollander. New York : Jubilee Books, 1974.
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
The temptation of the West. By Andre Malraux. Translated and introduced by Robert Hollander. New York : Vintage Books / Random House, 1961.
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1st Vintage Edition.
Signed by Ellison on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
Ten North Frederick. By John O'Hara. New York : Random House, 1955.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Tenants of the house. By Heather Ross Miller. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966.
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The tenants. By Bernard Malamud. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1971.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The tenth month. By Laura Z. Hobson. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1970.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/4 |
Terms for order. By Kenneth Burke. Edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman. With the assistance of Barbara Karmiller. Bloomington : Indiana University
Press, [c1964].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
Some marks within.
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| B/II/5 |
The territory ahead. By Wright Morris. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1958].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / double dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/5 |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: a pure woman. By Thomas Hardy. Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy. With the illustrations of Sir Herbert von Herkomer. Franklin Center,
PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Textures of life. By Hortense Calisher. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VII/2 |
That summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendship with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and some others. By Morley Callaghan. New York : Coward-McCann, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The "Argonauts". By Lillian E. Ross, George Whitman, Joe Wershba, Helen Ross, and Mel Fiske. New York : Modern Age Books, 1940.
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| B/III/4 |
Themis: a study of the social origins of Greek religion. By Jane Ellen Harrison. Second edition revised. With preface and supplementary notes. Cambridge : University Press, 1927.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marked as "gift from Stanley Hyman." Notes within.
Dust jacket inserted.
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| Deck E |
Theodore Dreiser. By F.O. Matthiessen. The American Men of Letters Series. New York : William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1951.
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| B/VI/5 |
Theory and technique of playwriting. By John Howard Lawson. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [c1936]. [2nd impression].
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Hardcover.
Marks within.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Article inserted.
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| B/VI/4 |
Theory of literature. By Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
There are no islands, any more: Lines written in passion and in deep concern for England, France and my own country. By Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1940.
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/3 |
There is a river: the black struggle for freedom in America. By Vincent Harding. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1981].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Invitation from publisher inserted.
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| Deck E |
There is a tree more ancient than Eden. By Leon Forrest. Foreword by Ralph Ellison. Chicago, IL : Another Chicago Press, 1988.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny and dated by the author on the title page.
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| Deck E |
There is a tree more ancient than Eden. By Leon Forrest. Foreword by Ralph Ellison. New York : Random House, 1973.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Inscribed, "It is a pleasure to present my novel to our greatest living author, Ralph Ellison and his lovely wife Fanny,
at Christmas time, 1975...Dear Ralph: Thank you in every way for your great direction, and the high mark of excellence you
have set for us all. Fondest regards," by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Therefore be bold. By Herbert Gold. New York : The Dial Press, 1960.
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| Deck E |
Thesaurus of English words and phrases classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and to assist in
literary composition. By Peter Mark Roget. Enlarged by John Lewis Roget, M.A. New edition revised and enlarged by Samuel Romilly Roget, M.A.
Authorized American Edition. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, n.d.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper and dated 1935.
Laid-in spine cover of book removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/2 |
They came in chains: Americans from Africa. By J.Saunders Redding. Philadelphia : Lippincott, [c1950].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
(The people of America series).
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| B/VII/5 |
They came to Cordura. By Glendon Swarthout. New York : Random House, [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Things fall apart: the story of a strong man. By Chinua Achebe. New York : McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison: "Specially inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author, Chinua Achebe."
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| A/IV/4 |
Things of this world. By Richard Wilbur. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1956].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Things themselves: Essays and scenes. By Reynolds Price. New York : Atheneum, 1972.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Thinking in writing. Third Edition. Selected and edited by Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
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Laid-in photocopy of note from friend of Ralph's removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/1 |
The third generation. By Chester Himes. New York : Signet Books, [1964].
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Paperback.
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| A/III/3 |
The third generation. By Chester Himes. Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Co., [c1954].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| A/II/1 |
The third generation. By Chester Himes. New York : New American Library, 1964.
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The third theatre. By Robert Brustein. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
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1st Edition.
Laid in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/1 |
The third tife of Grange Copeland. By Alice Walker. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1970].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / double dust jacket.
Review copy with publisher's blurb inserted.
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| B/VI/1 |
This changing world: a series of contributions by some of the living thinkers, to cast light upon the pattern of the modern
world. Edited by J.R.M. Brumwell. London : George Routledge and Sons, [1944].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
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| A/VII/4 |
This hallowed ground: the story of the Union side of the Civil War. By Bruce Catton. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/III/1 |
This is Adam. By Brainard Cheney. New York : McDowell, Obolensky, [c1958].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| A/VI/3 |
This was Harlem: a cultural portrait, 1900-1950. By Jervis A. Anderson. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, [c1982].
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1st printing, 1982.
Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Thomas Hardy: His career as a novelist. By Michael Millgate. New York : Random House, 1971.
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1st American Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Thomas Mann. By Henry Hatfield. The Makers of Modern Literature Series. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Books / James Laughlin, 1951.
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Laid-in scraps of paper with writing on them removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/4 |
Thomas Mann's world. By Joseph Gerald Brennan. New York : Columbia University Press, 1942.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Thomas Nelson of Yorktown: Revolutionary Virginian. By Emory G. Evans. Williamsburg, VA : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1975.
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| A/IV/4 |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. By James W. Tuttleton. Boston : Twayne Publishers, [c1978].
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The thought and art of Albert Camus. By Thomas Hanna. Chicago, IL : Henry Regnery Company, 1958.
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| Deck E |
Thoughts in the Negro experience. By James Harrison McNeal. Philadelphia, PA : Russell Press, 1967.
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| Deck E |
Thousand-Year-Old Fiancée and other poems. By Robert Sward. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1965.
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Laid-in slip removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/2 |
Three American moralists: Mailer, Bellow, and Trilling. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [c1973].
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author.
Review of the book from the New York Times and envelope with notes inserted.
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| B/VII/4 |
Three famous spy novels: complete and unabridged in one volume. Selected, and with an introduction by Bennett A. Cerf. New York : Random House, [c1942].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/4 |
Three lives. By Gertrude Stein. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. New York : Modern Library, [c1933].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/4 |
The three musketeers. By Alexander Dumas. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1980].
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| Deck E |
Three novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in photocopy of paper with annotation removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/5 |
Three ways of modern man. By Harry Slochower. With a foreword by Kenneth Burke. New York : International Publishers, [c1937].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Thumb tripping. By Don Mitchell. Boston : Little, Brown & Company, 1970.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/2 |
The thunder and the sunshine: a biography of Joseph Conrad. By Jerry Allen. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [c1958].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/V/1 |
Thus to revisit: some reminiscences. By Ford Madox Hueffer. New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1921.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A ticket for a seamstitch. [By] Henry W. Wiggin but polished for the printer by Mark Harris. By Mark Harris. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
A tidewater morning: Three tales from youth. By William Styron. New York : Random House, 1993.
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1st Edition.
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| B/VI/5 |
Time and the novel. By A.A. Mendilow. Introduction by J. Isaacs. London : Peter Nevill, [1952].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The time of the fire. By Marc Brandel. New York : Random House, 1954.
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1st Printing.
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| B/III/4 |
Time on the cross: the economics of American Negro slavery. By Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VI/3 |
Time on the cross: the economics of American Negro slavery. By Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Letter from publisher and a loose leaf with notes inserted.
Second copy.
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| B/IV/4 |
A time to dance: Noah and the waters and other poems. By C. Day Lewis. With an essay, "Revolution in Writing" by C. Day Lewis. New York : Random House, [c1936].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A time to die. By Tom Wicker. New York : Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., 1975.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Buyer's guide to camera accessories. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Buyer's guide to darkroom equipment. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Camera buyer's guide. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Caring for photographs: Display, storage, restoration. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1972.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Color. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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Time-Life Books. Documentary photography. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1972.
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Time-Life Books. Frontiers of photography. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1972.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Great photographers. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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Time-Life Books. Index. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1972.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Light and film. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Photographing children. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Photographing nature. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Photography as a tool. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Photography year: 1973 edition. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1972.
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Laid-in letter from Time-Life Books removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Photojournalism. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Special problems. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. The art of photography. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. The camera. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. The great themes. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. The print. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1970.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. The studio. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1971.
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| Deck E |
Time-Life Books. Travel photography. By the Editors of Time-Life Books. Life Library of Photography. New York : Time Inc., 1972.
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| Deck E |
Tintoretto. By Eric Newton. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1952.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
TLE Six: Options for the 1970s. Edited by Louis G. Locke, William M. Gibson, George Arms, et al. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1972.
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TLE (Toward liberal education) or Readings for liberal education.
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| Deck E |
Tlooth. By Harry Mathews. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.
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Paris Review Edition.
1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
To an early grave. By Wallace Markfield. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1964.
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/5 |
To Appomattox: nine April days, 1865. By Burke Davis. New York : Popular Library, [1960].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
To be, or not...to bop: Memoirs. By Dizzy Gillespie and Al Fraser. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
To have and have not. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1937.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/5 |
To have and have not. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
To heal and to build: programs of president Lyndon B. Johnson. By J.M. Burns. New York : McGraw-Hill, [c1968].
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1st edition.
Hardcover /dust jacket.
With unbroken presidential seal.
A/III/5.
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| A/II/1 |
To heal and to build: programs of president Lyndon B. Johnson. By J.M. Burns. New York : McGraw-Hill, [c1968].
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1st edition.
Hardcover /dust jacket. Second copy.
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| A/II/5 |
To live and die in Dixie and other poems. By John Beecher. Birmingham, AL : Red Mountain Editions, 1966.
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Paperback.
Review copy.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
To live in pronouns: Selected love poems. By Pedro Salinas. Translated by Edith Helman and Norma Farber. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974.
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1st Edition.
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| A/VI/2 |
To master, a long goodnight: the story of Uncle Tom: a historical narrative. By Brion Gysin. New York : Creative Age Press, [c1946].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
To the Finland station: A study in the writing and acting of history. By Edmund Wilson. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1940.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
To the Queen's taste: A cook book for moderns. By Helen Train Hilles. New York : Random House, 1950.
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Some annotation in pencil throughout.
Laid-in recipe clipping removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Tobacco Road. By Erskine Caldwell. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
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| A/IV/5 |
Tolstoy and his wife. By Tikhon Polner. Translated from Russian by Nicholas Wreden. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1945].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from ?.
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| A/VIII/2 |
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: an essay in the old criticism. By George Steiner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
Notes and marks within.
Paper with notes and a letter from Ellison to William Espy inserted.
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| B/III/1 |
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain. New York : Modern Library, [1940].
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1st Modern Library Giant edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Total picture control. By Andreas Feininger. New York : Chilton Book Company, 1970.
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| Deck E |
Totempole. By Sanford Friedman. New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965.
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Advance Reading Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/5 |
Touched with fire: Civil War letters and diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1946.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signature of R.
Ellison on the front free end paper.
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| Deck E |
The tour. By David Ely. New York : Delacorte Press, 1967.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in letter from the publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/2 |
Toward freedom: the autobiography. By Jawaharlal Nehru. New York : John Day Co., [1941].
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2nd impression.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Part of newspaper inserted.
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| B/I/2 |
Toward Stendhal: an essay. By Harry Levin. Utah : Pharos, 1945.
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Reprint from Pharos, No.3, Winter 1945.
Softbound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Marks within.
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| A/IV/2 |
Toward the splendid city: Nobel lecture. By Pablo Neruda. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, [c1972].
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Paperback.
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| A/VII/4 |
Towards a better life: being a series of epistles, or declamation. By Kenneth Burke. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1966.
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2nd edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VII/4 |
Towards a better life: being a series of epistles, or declamations. By Kenneth Burke. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1932].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Also signature of Edward R. Easton, Jr. on the same page.
Price mark on front pastedown.
Handwritten map inserted.
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| B/VI/2 |
The tower and the abyss: an inquiry into the transformation of the individual. By Erich Kahler. New York : George Braziller, 1957.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Obituary article of Harry S.
Lawrence inserted.
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| Deck E |
The town: A novel of the Snopes family. By William Faulkner. New York : Random House, 1957.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The track of the cat. By Walter Van Tilburg Clark. New York : Random House, 1949.
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1st Printing.
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| B/III/5 |
The tragedies of sophocles. By Sophocles. Translated into English prose from the text of Jebb by Edward P. Coleridge. London : George Bell and Sons,
1905.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Another unidentified signature on pastedown.
Notes and marks within.
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| B/IV/1 |
The tragedies. By William Shakespeare. New York : Modern Library, 1943.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/5 |
Tragedy and the paradox of the fortunate fall. By Harry Weisinger. Michigan : Michigan State College Press, [1953].
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Hardcover.
Newspaper article and photo of Barron Leslie Ellison inserted.
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| B/V/5 |
Tragedy is not enough. By Karl Jaspers. Translated by Harold A.T. Reiche, Harry T. Moore, and Karl W. Deutch. Boston : Beacon Press, [c1952].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. By Eric F. Goldman. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
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Ralph Ellison mentioned on page 466.
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| B/VI/5 |
Tragedy: serious drama in relation to Aristotle's poetics. By F.L. Lucas. Revised edition. New York : Collier Books, [1962].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on preliminary leaf.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Tragedy. By William G. McCollom. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1957.
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1st Printing.
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| B/VII/2 |
The tragic muse of John Ford. By George Frank Sensabaugh. Paolo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press, [c1944].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/IV/2 |
The tragic sense in Shakespeare. By John Lawlor. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., [c1960].
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1st American edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Invitation inserted.
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| Deck E |
The tragic sense of life in men and in peoples. By Miguel de Unamuno. Translated by J.E. Crawford Flitch. Introductory essay by Salvador de Madriaga. London : Macmillan
and Co., Ltd., 1921.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Some underlining throughout.
Laid-in note card with annotation by Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/IV/3 |
Tragic themes in Western literature. Edited with an introduction by Cleaneth Brooks. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/5 |
The tragic vision: variation of the theme in literary interpretation. By Murray Krieger. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [c1960].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes on back pastedown.
Marks within.
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| A/IV/2 |
Train whistle guitar. By Albert Murray. New York : McGraw-Will Book Co., [c1974].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/IV/2 |
Train whistle guitar. By Albert Murray. Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1989].
|
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by O'Mealey.
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| A/VII/2 |
Train whistle guitar. By Albert Murray. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., [c1974].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Training your Retriever. By James Lamb Free. New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., 1949.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Rear endpaper has note stating, "Tuck born Jan. 21, 1960."
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| Deck E |
The traveler's tree: New and selected poems. By William Jay Smith. Woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky. New York : Persea Books, 1980.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny on front free endpaper by the author.
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| B/I/4 |
Travels in the Congo. By Andre Gide. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy. New York : Modern Age Books, [1937].
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Paperback.
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| A/V/5 |
Treasure island. By Robert Louis Stevenson. With the Illustrations of N.C. Wyeth. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
|
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Hardcover.
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| A/VI/4 |
A treasury of African folklore: the oral literature, traditions, myths, legends, epics, tales, recollections, wisdom, sayings,
and humor of Africa. By Harold Courlander. New York : Crown Publishers, [c1975].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
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| A/VI/4 |
A treasury of African folklore. By Harold Courlander. New York : Crown Publishers, [c1976].
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Uncorrected proof.
|
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| B/VII/1 |
A treasury of American political humor. Edited by Leonard C. Lewin. New York : Delacourt Press, [c1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A treasury of Mexican folkways. By Frances Toor. Illustrated with 100 drawings by Carlos Merida. New York : Crown Publishers, 1947.
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Laid-in flap of dust jacket removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Treasury of Mississippi folklore: Stories, ballads, traditions, and folkways of the Mid-American river country. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Foreword by Carl Carmer. New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955.
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Limited Edition.
Autographed by the editor on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/3 |
A treasury of the world's great letters. Edited by M. Lincoln Schuster. New York : Simon and Schuster,Inc, [c1940].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The tree of man. By Patrick White. New York : The Viking Press, 1955.
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Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The trees. By Conrad Richter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The trial. By Franz Kafka. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Illustrated by Georg Salter. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf, 1937.
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1st American Edition.
Signed twice by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Trials of the world: Essays in American literature and the humanistic tradition. By R.W.B. Lewis. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1965.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in postcard from TIME magazine removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Annotation on page 218 next to mention of Ralph Ellison's work.
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| Deck E |
The trickster: A study in American Indian mythology. By Paul Radin. With commentaries by Karl Kerenyi and C.G. Jung. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956.
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Some underlining and annotation in last few chapters.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/5 |
The triumph of the novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner. By Albert J. Guerard. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Trollope: His life and art. By C.P. Snow. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.
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Laid-in letter from publisher and photocopied article from Publisher's Weekly removed and housed separately; filed immediately
adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Trouble at the top. By Charles Bracelen Flood. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on the front free endpaper; Also autographed by the author on the title page.
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| Deck E |
Trouble in July. By Erskine Caldwell. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
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Signed by Fanny M. McConnell on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The trouble with Cinderella: An outline of identity. By Artie Shaw. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952.
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Annotated heavily on half-title page.
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| Deck E |
The troublemaker. By Ann Birstein. New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955.
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| A/V/1 |
The troublesome presence: American democracy and the Negro. By Eli Ginzberg and Alfred S. Eishner. New York : Free Press of Glencoe, [c.1964].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Price marks.
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| Deck E |
Troupers of the gold coast or the rise of Lotta Crabtree. By Constance Rourke. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion, selected from the works of John Ruskin, A.M. By John, A.M. Ruskin. With a notice of the author by Mrs. L.C. Tuthill. New York : John Wiley & Son, 1873.
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| Deck E |
True confessions. By John Gregory Dunne. New York : E.P. Dutton, 1977.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Truman Capote: The story of his bizarre and exotic boyhood by an aunt who helped raise him. By Marie Rudsill and James C. Simmons. New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1983.
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Uncorrected Advance Proofs.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The trumpet shall sound. By H.M. Tomlinson. New York : Random House, 1957.
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1st Printing.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/5 |
The trying-out of Moby Dick. By Hobert Vincent. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/3 |
Turgenev: the man, his art, and his age. By Avraham Yarmolinsky. New York : Odeon Press, [c1959].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Tuskegee Institute's centennial campaign. Phase one: Challenge to the alumni. Alabama : Tuskegee Institute, [1981].
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| Deck E |
Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American culture. By Gerald Early. New York : The Ecco Press, 1989.
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Advance Uncorrected Proofs.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Twenties in the sixties: Previously uncollected critical essays. By Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Assembling Press, 1979.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by the author on half-title page.
|
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| A/II/3 |
Twentieth century interpretations of Invisible Man: a collection of critical essays. Edited by John Reilly. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [c1970].
|
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Paperback.
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| A/II/2 |
Twentieth century interpretations of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: a collection of critical essays. Edited by Claude M. Simpson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [c1968].
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Paperback.
Includes essay on Huckleberry Finn by Ralph Ellison.
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| Deck E |
The twentieth century novel: Studies in technique. By Joseph Warren Beach. New York : D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1932.
|
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Annotated and underlined throughout.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/5 |
The twentieth century novel: studies in technique. By Joseph Warren Beach. New York : Century Co., [c1932].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/V/5 |
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea. By Jules Verne. Translated by Mendor T. Burnetti. With the Drawings of Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. Engraved
by "Hildibrand." Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1983].
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Hardcover.
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| A/V/4 |
Twenty-two tales: an anthology of short stories. By Mark Twain. Selected and with an Introduction by Kenneth D. McCormick. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Twentyone twice: A journal. By Mark Harris. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Two addresses: On poetry: Translated by W.H. Auden and Robert Fitzgerald. By Saint-John Perse. With French texts. Bollingen Series 86. New York : Bollingen Foundation, 1966.
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| Deck E |
Two cheers for Capitalism. By Irving Kristol. New York : Basic Books, Inc., 1978.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/III/3 |
Two essays on analytical psychology. By Carl G. Jung. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. New York : Meridian Books, 1956.
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| Deck E |
Two legends: Oedipus and Theseus. By Andre Gide. Translated from the French by John Russell. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
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1st Borzoi Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The two lived of James Jackson Jarves. By Francis Steegmuller. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1951.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Two weeks in another town. By Irwin Shaw. New York : Random House, 1960.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Two wings to veil my face. By Leon Forrest. Foreword by Toni Morrison. Chicago, IL : Another Chicago Press, 1988.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny and dated by the author on the title page.
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| Deck E |
The two worlds of American art: The private and the popular. By Barry Ulanov. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1965.
|
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1st Printing.
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| A/V/5 |
Two years before the mast. By Richard Henry Dana. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Press, [c1983].
|
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Hardcover.
|
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| B/II/5 |
Typee: a narrative of the Marquesas Islands. By Herman Melville. Illustrated by Guido Boer. New York : Aventine Press, [c1931].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Illustration and poem from newspaper glued to a preliminary leaf.
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| Deck E |
Typee. By Herman Melville. New York : Walter J. Black, Inc., 1932.
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| Deck E |
The tyranny of words. By Stuart Chase. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/3 |
Ulysses in Paris. By Silvia Beach. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1956].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Holiday gift from publishing house inserted.
|
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| B/II/3 |
Ulysses on the Liffey. By Richard Ellmann. New York : Oxford University Press, [c1972].
|
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/4 |
The Ulysses theme: a study in the adaptability of a traditional hero. By W.B. Stanford. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1954.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Ulysses: Complete and unexpurgated. By James Joyce. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst. New York : The Modern Library, Inc. / Random House, 1946.
|
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/II/3 |
Ulysses. By James Joyce. The corrected text edited by Hans Walter Gabler. With Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. New York :
Vintage Books, [c1986].
|
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1st edition.
Paperback.
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| A/IV/3 |
Ulysses. By James Joyce. New York : Random House, [1934].
|
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Hardcover.
Marks within, p. 339 marked on back pastedown.
Business card inserted.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Ulysses. By James Joyce. With a foreword by Morris L. Ernst and the Decision of the United States District Court Rendered by Judge
John M. Woolsey. New York : Modern Library, [c1934].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Envelope inserted.
|
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| A/IV/4 |
Uncertainties. By H.L. Van Brunt. Illustrations by Stephen Dwostin. New York : Smith/Horizon Press, [c1968].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review copy.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
|
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| A/IV/5 |
Uncle Tom's children: five long stories. By Richard Wright. Cleveland; New York : World Publishing Co., [1943].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
|
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| A/IV/5 |
Uncle Tom's children: four novellas. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Brothers, 1938.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on verso contents page.
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| A/IV/5 |
Uncle Tom's children. By Richard Wright. New York : Penguin Books, [1947].
|
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Paperback.
|
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| A/III/2 |
Uncollected stories of William Faulkner. By William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph Blotner. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, 1979.
|
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from Albert, Marissa, and Silvia on flyleaf.
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| Deck E |
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner. By William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York : Random House, 1979.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Under the volcano. By Malcolm Lowry. New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
|
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Annotation on rear endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Under Western eyes. By Joseph Conrad. Introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel. The New Classic Series. New York : James Laughlin,1951.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
Annotated on rear free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The underground city. By H.L. Humes. New York : Random House, 1958.
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| Deck E |
The underground stream: An historical novel of a moment in the American winter. By Albert Maltz. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1940.
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1st Edition.
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| B/IV/3 |
Understanding fiction. By Cleaneth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. New York : F.S. Crofts and Co., 1945.
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3rd printing.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/3 |
Understanding media: the extentions of man. By Marshall McLuhan. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1965].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Notes within.
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| Deck E |
Understanding your dog: An original study of the behavior patterns of dogs. By Michael W. Fox. New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1972.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/4 |
Unequal justice: lawyers and social change in modern America. By Jerold S. Auerbach. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
United States Government Printing Office. Style manual. Washington D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1939.
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Revised Edition.
Signed by Fanny Buford on front endpaper.
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| Deck E |
United States Supreme Court. Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 4 and for respondents in No. 10 on reargument. Washington D.C. : United States Supreme
Court, 1953.
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Inscribed, "To Ralph who someday will put this all in perspective-a perspective of value" and signed "Kenneth" on cover.
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| Deck E |
United States Supreme Court. Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 4 and for respondents in No. 10 on reargument. Washington D.C. : United States Supreme
Court, 1953.
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Signed by Ellison on cover.
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| Deck E |
Unity's children. By Thomas Sterling. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
The universe and Dr. Einstein. By Lincoln Barnett. Diagrams by Anthony Sodaro. Foreword by Albert Einstein. New York : William Sloane Associates, 1950.
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Revised Edition.
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| Deck E |
The unknown murderer. By Theodor Reik. Translated from the German by Dr. Katherine Jones. New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1945.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The unpublished Dostoevsky: diaries and notebooks, 1860-81. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. In three volumes. General editor Carl R. Proffer. With an introduction by Robert L. Belknap. Ann
Arbor, MI : Ardis, [c1973].
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V.1: Hardcover / dust jacket.
V.2: Hardcover / dust jacket.
[V.3-missing].
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| B/IV/4 |
The unquiet grave: a word cycle by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly). By Cyril Connolly. New York : Viking Press, [1957].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/2 |
The unquiet vision: mirrors of man in existentialism. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New York : World Publishing Company, Excalibur Books, [c1969].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/I/4 |
Unsichtbar (Invisible man): roman. By Ralph Ellison. Translated into German by Georg Goyert. [Frankfurt am Main] : S Fischer, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Third copy.
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| A/I/2 |
Unsichtbar (Invisible man): roman. By Ralph Ellison. Translated into German by Georg Goyert. [Frankfurt am Main] : S Fischer Verlag, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
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| A/I/4 |
Unsichtbar (Invisible man): roman. By Ralph Ellison. Translated into German by Georg Goyert. [Frankfurt am Main] : S Fischer Verlag, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Second copy.
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| A/I/2 |
Unsichtbar (Invisible man): roman. By Ralph Ellison. Translated into German by Georg Goyert. [Frankfurt am Main] : S Fischer, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/I/2 |
Unsichtbar (Invisible man): roman. By Ralph Ellison. Translated into German by Georg Goyert. [Frankfurt am Main] : S Fischer, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Second copy.
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| A/I/4 |
Unsichtbar (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Georg Goyert. Frankfurt am Main : G.B. Fischer, 1959.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Plastic cover.
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| A/IV/4 |
The untidy pilgrim. By Eugene Walter. New York : J.B. Lippencott, 1954.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author.
Notes on back pastedown.
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| B/I/3 |
The unvanquished. By William Faulkner. Drawings by Edward Chanton. New York : Random House, [c1938].
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Hardcover.
Parts of dust jacket glued to pastedown.
Bookshop marks. Second Copy.
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| B/I/3 |
The unvanquished. By William Faulkner. New York : Signet Book, [1952].
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Paperback.
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| B/I/3 |
The unvanquished. By William Faulkner. Drawings by Edward Chanton. New York : Random House, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/I/5 |
Uomo invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Carlo Fruttero and Luciano Gallino. Torino, Italy : Einaudi, c1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Forth copy, display.
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| A/I/2 |
Uomo invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Carlo Fruttero and Luciano Gallino. Torino, Italy : Einaudi, c1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Second copy.
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| A/I/2 |
Uomo invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Carlo Fruttero and Luciano Gallino. Torino, Italy : Einaudi, Terza edizione, c1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Stamped on the title page.
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| A/I/3 |
Uomo invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Carlo Fruttero and Luciano Gallino. Torino, Italy : Einaudi, c1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Third copy.
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| A/I/2 |
Uomo Invisible (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. [Translated by] Carlo Fruttero and Luciano Gallino. Torino, Italy : Einaudi, c1956.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/I/5 |
Uomo invisible.(Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Carlo Fiuttero and Luciano Gallino. Torino, Italy : Giulio Einaudi, [1993].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Display
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| Deck E |
Up in the old hotel and other stories. By Joseph Mitchell. New York : Pantheon Books / Random House, 1992.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph by the author on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Uplands: New poems. By A.R. Ammons. New York : W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1970.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Upon this rock: The miracles of a black church. By Samuel G. Freedman. New York : Harper Collins, 1993.
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Advance Reading Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Upsurge. By Robert Gessner. New York : Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1933.
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Bookplate of Langston Hughes on front endpaper.
Signed by Langston Hughes on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/5 |
Urban blues. By Charles Keil. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1966].
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Hardcover / dust jacket and plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The use of poetry and the use of criticism: studies in the relation of criticism to poetry in England. By T.S. Eliot. The Charles Eliot Norton lectures 1932-33. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1933.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper, dated 1936.
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| A/I/1 |
Usynlig mand ( Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Denmark : Gyldendal Bogklub, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Uncut pages.
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| A/I/1 |
Usynlig mand (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Denmark : Gyldendal Bogklub, 1969.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Uncut pages.
Second copy.
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| A/I/2 |
Usynlig mand. By Ralph Ellison. [Translated into Danish by] Mogens Boisen. Denmark : Gylendals Bogklub, [1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| A/I/5 |
Usynlig mand. By Ralph Ellison. [Translated into Danish by] Mogens Boisen. Denmark : Gylendals Bogklub, [1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Third copy, display.
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| A/I/2 |
Usynlig mand. By Ralph Ellison. [Translated into Danish by] Mogens Boisen. Denmark : Gylendals Bogklub, [1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Second copy.
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| A/I/2 |
Usynlig mann (Invisible man). By Ralph Ellison. Translated by Leo Strom. Oslo, Norway : H. Aschehoug and Co, 1953.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Publisher's catalog Verdensberomte Romaner (1953) inserted.
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| B/VII/3 |
V-letter and other poems. By Karl Jay Shapiro. New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, [c1944].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/V/4 |
Vanity fair: A Novel Without A Hero. By William Makepeace Thackeray. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
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Hardcover.
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| A/III/5 |
The vantage point: perspective of the presidency, 1963-69. By Lyndon Baines Johnson. New York : Hold, Rinehart, and Winston, [c1971].
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Limited edition of 300 copies, copy No.212.
Hardcover /dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Card signed by the author glued to half-title.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on dedication page.
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| A/III/5 |
The vantage point: perspective of the presidency, 1963-69. By Lyndon Baines Johnson. New York : Hold, Rinehart, and Winston, [c1971].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Card signed by author glued to half-title.
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| Deck E |
Varieties of Black experience at Harvard: An anthology. Edited by Werner Sollors, Thomas A. Underwood, and Caldwell Titcomb. Cambridge : Harvard University Department of Afro-American
Studies, 1986.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/1 |
The varieties of religious experience: a study of human nature. By William James. New York : Modern Library, [c1902, 1935?].
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Variety: Second series. By Paul Valery. Translated from the French by William Aspenwall Bradley. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Variety. By Paul Valery. Translated by Malcolm Cowley. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Verses on the times. By Richard Wilbur and William J. Smith. New York, NY : Gutenberg Press, 1978.
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Self-printed pamphlet.
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| B/IV/5 |
Some versions of the pastoral. By William Empson. London : Chatto and Windus, 1935.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/V/3 |
Versus. By Ogden Nash. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/II/5 |
The victim. By Saul Bellow. New York : Vanguard, [c1947].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by the author on front pastedown.
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| B/V/4 |
Vienna. By Stephen Spender. New York : Random House, 1935.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Viewpoints from Black America. Edited by Gladys J. Curry. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970.
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Laid-in slip found on page 101 removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VIII/4 |
Views and reviews. By Henry James. Introduction by Le Roy Philips. Boston : Ball Publishing Co., 1908.
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Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Signature of Virginia M.
Smith, dated 1905 on front pastedown and on page 91.
Printed notes on James pasted to the flyleaf and picture of James pasted onto frontispiece page.
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| B/I/1 |
Violent Saturday. By William L. Heath. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1955].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/VI/2 |
Virgin land: the American West as symbol and myth. By Henry Nash Smith. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VII/2 |
Virginia Woolf. By David Daiches. Norfolk, CT : New Directions Books, [c1944].
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(Makers of Modern Literature).
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Review copy.
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| Deck E |
Virginia. General Assembly. Sixteenth joint commemorative session: The Colonial Capitol; Williamsburg, January 31, 1976. Journals of the House of Delegates
and the Senate of Virginia. House Document No. 37. Williamsburg : The General Assembly of Virginia, 1976.
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Laid-in letter from Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
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| Deck E |
Vision and image: A way of seeing. By James Johnson Sweeney. Planned and edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1968.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The vision of Paul Tillich. By Carl J. Armbruster, S.J. New York : Sheed and Ward, 1967.
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| B/VI/5 |
The vision of tragedy. By Richard B. Sewall. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1959.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/3 |
Visions from the ramble. By John Hollander. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
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| A/IV/3 |
Visions of presence in modern American poetry. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [c1993].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison from the author on title page.
Strand Bookstore bookmark inserted.
|
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| Deck E |
A visitation of spirits. By Randall Kenan. New York : Grove Press, 1989.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/4 |
Vita d'un uomo: poesie. By Giuseppe Ungaretti. Vol.2, 1919-1935: Sentimento Del Tempo. Italy : Arnoldo Mondadore Editore, [1954].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
|
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| Deck E |
Viva. By E.E. Cummings. Edited, with an afterword, by George James Firmage. New York : Liveright, 1979.
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Review Copy.
1st Edition.
Laid-in note card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
Voyage Home: Poems. By Sandra Hochman. Paris : Two Cities Editions, 1960.
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Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on the title page by the author.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| Deck E |
Voyager Belsky. By Monroe Engel. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in newspaper clipping mentioning this book removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Wait until the evening. By Hal Bennett. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Waiting for God. By Simone Weil. Translated by Emma Craufurd. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951.
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| B/I/5 |
Walk hard talk loud. By Lem Zinberg. Indianapolis; New York : Bobbs-Merrill Co., [c1940].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
A walk in the sun. By Harry Brown. Philadelphia, PA : The Blakiston Company, 1945.
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Reprint Edition.
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| B/V/1 |
A walker in the city. By Alfred Kazin. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1951].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The wall of men. By William Rollins, Jr. New York : Modern Age Books, Inc., 1938.
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Laid-in dust jacket flaps removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/4 |
The walnut trees of Altenburg. By Andre Malraux. Translated from the French by A.W. Fielding. London : John Lichman, 1952.
|
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Michael Harper on half-title; drawing of Ellison (?) with pipe on preliminary page.
|
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| B/IV/4 |
Walt Whitman reconsidered. By Richard V. Chase. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1955.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/IV/2 |
Walt Whitman: an American: a study in biography. By Henry Canby. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943.
|
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ellison from Wayne Radziminski.
With bookplate of Radziminski on front pastedown.
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| Deck E |
Walt Whitman: Poet of democracy. By Hugh I'Anson Fausset. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1942.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The waltz invention: A play in three acts. By Vladimir Nabokov. New York : Phaedra, Inc., 1966.
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1st Edition.
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| B/V/1 |
The waning of the Middle Ages: a study of the forms of life, thought, and art in France and the Netherlands in the 14th and
15th centuries. By Johan Huizinga. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1954.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
|
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| A/III/1 |
The Wapshot chronicle. By John Cheever. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1957].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison on dedication page.
|
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| B/III/3 |
The Wapshot scandal. By John Cheever. New York : Harper and Row, [1964].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Looseleaf with notes inserted.
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| B/III/3 |
The Wapshot scandal. By John Cheever. New York : Harper and Row, [1964].
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Uncorrected proof.
Spiral binding.
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| Deck E |
War ceremony and peace ceremony of the Osage Indians. By Francis La Flesche. Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1939.
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Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 101.
Laid-in receipt removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The war prayer. By Mark Twain. With drawings by John Groth. New York : Harper and Row, [c1968].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from Groth with original ink drawing on front free end paper.
A/III/2.
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| A/VIII/2 |
The waste land: a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts including the annotations of Ezra Pound. By T.S. Eliot. Edited by Valerie Eliot. New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [c1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
|
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| B/VII/3 |
Wasteland. By Jo Sinclair. Garden City, NY : Sundial Press, [1947].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| A/V/5 |
Waverley, or, ‘tis sixty years since. By Walter Scott. With the Illustrations of Godefroy Durand. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1981].
|
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
A way of knowing. By Nolan Porterfield. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
|
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A Harper's Magazine Press Book.
1st Edition.
Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/1 |
The way of man: according to the teachings of Hasidism. By Martin Buber. Chicago : Wilcox and Follett, Co., 1951.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/VII/5 |
The way things are and other stories. By Albert Maltz. New York : International Publishers, [c1938].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/III/4 |
The way west. By A.B. Guthrie, Jr. New York : William Sloan, [c1949].
|
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signature of author on front free end paper.
|
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| A/III/5 |
The ways of white folks. By Langston Hughes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
Damaged dust jacket inserted.
|
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| B/I/3 |
The wayward and the seeking: a collection of writing. By Jean Toomer. Edited and with an introduction by Darwin T. Turner. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1979.
|
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Advance uncorrected proof.
Paperback.
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| B/I/1 |
The wayward and the seeking: a collection of writings by Jean Toomer. By Jean Toomer. Edited with an introduction by Darwin T. Turner. Washington, DC : Howard University Press, 1980.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Review copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
|
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| A/VI/5 |
Wayward child: a person odyssey. By Addison Gayle, Jr. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press, Doubleday, 1977.
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
We can't breathe. By Ronald Fair. New York : Harper & Row, 1971.
|
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Uncorrected Proof.
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| A/III/5 |
We have always lived in the castle. By Shirley Jackson. New York : Viking Press, [c1962].
|
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
|
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| Deck E |
We shall not sleep: An inspirational book for Black Achievers. By Clyde Owen Jackson. Pompano Beach, FL : Exposition Press of Florida, Inc. 1985.
|
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free endpaper.
Sticky note from front free endpaper under inscription removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this
book.
|
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| A/IV/3 |
The weather of February. By Hollis Summers. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1957].
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison from the author.
|
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| Deck E |
Weathers and edges: Poems by Philip Booth. By Philip Booth. New York : The Viking Press, 1966.
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| Deck E |
Welcome to hard times. By E.L. Doctorow. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1960.
|
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1st Printing.
Advance Copy.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
|
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| B/IV/3 |
The well wrought urn: studies in the structure of poetry. By Cleanth Brooks. New York : Reynold and Hitchcock, [c1947].
|
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
|
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| B/IV/5 |
The well-tempered critic. By Northrup Frye. Bloomington : University of Indiana Press, [c1963].
|
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
|
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| Deck E |
The Western coast. By Paula Fox. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972.
|
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/5 |
What a way to go. By Wright Morris. New York : Atheneum, 1962.
|
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
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| B/V/4 |
What is literature?. By Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. New York : Philosophical Library, [c1949].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
What is philosophy? A Marxist introduction. By Howard Selsam. New York : International Publishers, 1938.
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Signed by Ralph W. Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/3 |
What Maisie knew. By Henry James. New York : Fox Duffield and Co., 1906.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front pastedown.
An article, a photo of his estate in England and Oliver Onions recommendation of the book inserted.
Bookshop label on back pastedown.
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| Deck E |
What the Negro wants. Edited by Rayford W. Logan. Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
What thou lovest well, remains American. By Richard Hugo. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/3 |
What to do aboard a transport: "science from shipboard": a simple manual of information and instruction for those who cross
the seas in ships to fight for freedom. New York : H. Wolff, 1943.
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1st printing.
Paperback.
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| B/IV/1 |
The wheel of fire: interpretations of Shakespearean tragedy, with three new essays. By G. Wilson Knight. [Introduction by T.S. Eliot.] New York : Meridian Books, 1957.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
When and where I enter...: The impact of Black women on race and sex in America. By Paula Giddings. New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
When she was good. By Philip Roth. New York : Random House, 1967.
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1st Printing.
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| B/I/2 |
When thy king is a boy. By E. Roberson. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [c1970].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Where angels fear to tread. By E.M. Forster. Garden City, NY : Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1920.
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The Sun Dial Library.
Inscribed to Fanny McConnell on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/1 |
Where I was born and raised. By David Cohn. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [1967].
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Paperback.
Complimentary copy.
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| A/VI/1 |
Where I'm bound: patterns of slavery and freedom in black American autobiography. By Sidonie Smith. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, [c1974].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
Where mist clothes dream and song runs naked. By Sara. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Where's Annie?. By Eileen Bassing. New York : Random House, 1963.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
Whistle. By James Jones. New York : Delacorte Press, 1978.
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Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Whistler: A biography. By Stanley Weintraub. New York : Weybright and Talley, 1974.
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The whistling zone. By Herbert Kubly. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1963.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
White and coloured: The behaviour of British people towards coloured immigrants. By Michael Banton. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1960.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/2 |
The white band. By Carter Brooke Jones. New York : Funk and Wagnalls, [c1959].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/III/5 |
The white goddess: a historical grammar of poetic myth. By Robert Graves. Amended and enlarged edition. New York : Vintage Books, 1958.
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/III/5 |
The white goddess: historical grammar of poetic myth. By Robert Graves. New York : Creative Age Press, 1948.
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/VI/4 |
White hopes and other tigers. By John Lardner. Philadelphia; New York : J.B. Lippencott Co., [c1951].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
White lies: Rape, murder, and justice, Texas style. By Nick Davies. New York : Pantheon Books, 1991.
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Advance Uncorrected Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and filed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
White lotus. By John Hersey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/IV/5 |
White man, listen! By Richard Wright. With an introduction by John A.Williams. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., Anchor Books, [1964].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
The White man's road. By Benjamin Capps. New York : Harper & Row, 1969.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VII/4 |
The white oxen and other stories. By Kenneth Burke. New York : Albert and Charles Boni, 1924.
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Paper label glued to spine.
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| Deck E |
White teacher. By Vivian Gussin Paley. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1979.
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Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
White trash cooking. By Ernest Matthew Mickler. [S.l.] : The Jargon Society, 1986.
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison.
Annotated throughout.
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| A/VI/3 |
White, red, and black: the seventeenth-century Virginian. By Wesley Frank Craven. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [c1977].
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Paperback.
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| Deck E |
Whitman. By Newton Arvin. New York : Macmillan Company, 1938.
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1st Printing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Who killed society? By Cleveland Amory. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1960.
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1st Edition.
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| A/IV/4 |
Who speaks for the Negro? By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1965].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by the author on the front free end paper.
A few marks and notes in book.
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| Deck E |
Who walk in darkness. By Chandler Brossard. New York : New Directions Books, 1952.
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| Deck E |
Who was Socrates? By Alban D. Winspear and Tom Silverberg. [S.l.] : The Gordon Company, 1939.
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| Deck E |
Wickford point. By John P. Marquand. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1939.
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| Deck E |
The wide net and other stories. By Eudora Welty. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.
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1st Edition.
Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/III/3 |
The widening gyre: crisis and mastery in modern literature. By Joseph Frank. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [c1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
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| Deck E |
The wig: a mirror image. By Charles Wright. New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, [c1966].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Scrap paper with notes inserted.
A/VII/2.
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| Deck E |
The wild iris. By Louise Gluck. Hopewell, NJ : The Ecco Press, 1992.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in postcard from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/4 |
The wild palms. By William Faulkner. Stockholm and London : Continental Book Co., [c1947].
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Rebound.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
The wild prayer of longing: poetry and the sacred. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1971].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/4 |
The wild years. By Ernest Hemingway. Edited and introduced by Gene Z. Hanrahan. New York : Dell, [.c1962].
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Paperback.
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| B/I/5 |
A wilderness of vines. By Hal Bennett. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1966.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| B/III/2 |
Wilderness: a tale of the Civil war. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1961].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Review of the book inserted.
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| Deck E |
Wildlife in America. By Peter Matthiessen. Illustrated by Bob Hines. Introduction by Richard H. Pough. New York : The Viking Press, 1959.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The will to change: Poems 1968-1970. By Adrienne Rich. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971.
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Review Copy.
1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The will. By Harvey Swados. Cleveland, OH : The World Publishing Company, 1963.
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1st Edition.
Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/3 |
William Faulkner: a critical appraisal. By Harry Modean Campbell and Ruel Foster. Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [c1951].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Bookshop mark on back pastedown.
Phone bill inserted.
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| B/I/3 |
William Faulkner: a critical study. By Irving Howe. New York : Random House, [c1952].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free end paper.
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| B/I/3 |
William Faulkner: the critical heritage. Edited by John Bassett. Boston : Routledge and Keegan Paul, [c1975].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
William Faulkner: The man and the artist. By Stephen B. Oates. New York : Harper & Row, 1987.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in business card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/I/3 |
William Faulkner: the Yoknapatawpha country. By Cleanth Brooks. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1963.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/I/3 |
William Faulkner: three decades of criticism. Edited by Frederick John Hoffman and Olga W. Vickery. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, A Harbinger Book, [1963].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on flyleaf.
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| B/I/3 |
William Faulkner: two decades of criticism. Edited by Frederick J. Hoffman and Olga W. Vickery. Ann Arbor : Michigan State College Press, 1951.
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Hardcover.
Stamped Hoffman Memorial Library, Bard College.
Notes on Sound and Fury inserted.
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| Deck E |
Wind and birds and human voices and other stories. By Ellen Wilbur. [S.l.] : Stuart Wright, 1984.
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1st Edition.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by the author on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/4 |
Wind and birds and human voices and other stories. By Ellen Wilbur. [S.l.] : Stuart Wright, [c1984].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison by "Charlie and Dick" on front free end paper.
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| B/VI/2 |
The wind blew from the East: a study in the orientation of American culture. By Ferner Nuhn. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1942].
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1st edition.
Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/II/5 |
The winds of fear. By Hodding Carter. New York : Farrar and Rinehart, [c1944].
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Hardcover.
Part of dust jacket and review of the book inserted.
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| B/II/3 |
The wings of the dove. By Henry James. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945.
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Hardcover.
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| B/II/3 |
The wings of the dove. By Henry James. New York : Modern Library, [c1937].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/VIII/3 |
Winner take nothing. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scriber's Sons, 1933.
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[1st edition, 1st printing].
Hardcover / dust jacket missing.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Winter notes on summer impressions. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. With a foreword by Saul Bellow. New York : Criterion Books, 1955.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/2 |
Winter of artifice: three novelettes. By Anais Nin. Denver : Alan Swallow, [c1948].
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Paperback.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on flyleaf.
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| B/I/4 |
The wishing tree. By William Faulkner. Illustrated by Don Bolognese. New York : Random House, [c1964].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
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| Deck E |
With all my might: An autobiography. By Erskine Caldwell. Atlanta, GA : Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1987.
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1st Printing.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
Laid-in postcard removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Without love. By Gerald Hanley. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1957.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Witness. By Whittaker Chambers. New York : Random House, 1952.
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1st Printing.
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| Deck E |
The Wizard of Oz. By L. Frank Baum. Pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago : Donohue, [c1903].
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Spine shows publisher to be Donohue while inside states Bobbs-Merrill Company is publisher.
Printed between 1914 and 1920.
Signed by Fanny McConnell in endpaper.
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| B/V/2 |
The woman at the Washington zoo: poems and translations. By Randall Jarrell. New York : Atheneum, 1960.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
A woman unashamed and other poems. By Paul Engle. New York : Random House, 1965.
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1st Printing.
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| B/VII/5 |
Women and Thomas Harrow. By John P. Marquand. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1958].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The women at Point Sur and other poems. By Robinson Jeffers. Afterword by Tim Hunt. New York : Liveright, 1977.
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Laid-in items removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Wonders: Writings and drawings for the child in us all. Edited by Jonathan Cott and Mary Gimbel. New York : Rolling Stone Press / Summit Books, 1980.
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1st Edition.
Special edition of 175 copies.
Two laid-in letters removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The wooden horse: Poems by Daryl Hine. By Daryl Hine. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
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1st Edition.
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| A/II/5 |
The word on the Brazos: Negro preacher tales from the Brazos bottoms of Texas. By J. Mason Brewer. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [c1953].
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3rd printing, 1962.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Correction on jacket blurb.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author.
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| Deck E |
The work of an ancient hand. By Curtis Harnack. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960.
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1st Edition.
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| B/II/5 |
The workers. By Audrey Lee. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1969].
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Unrevised proof.
A letter from Ms. Lee to Mr. Ellison inserted.
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| A/IV/5 |
The works of Alexander Pushkin: lyrics, narrative poems, folk tales, plays, prose. By Alexander Pushkin. Selected and edited, with an introduction, by Abrahm Yarmolinsky. New York : Random House, [c1936].
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by Kiltie, Nina, and Jack.
A photograph of dogs from newspaper inserted.
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| B/II/5 |
The works of love. By Wright Morris. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| Deck E |
The world and William Walker. By Albert Z. Carr. New York : Harper & Row,1963.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VII/2 |
A world elsewhere: the place of style in American literature. By Richard Poirier. New York : Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/III/2 |
World enough and time: a romantic novel. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1950].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Inscribed by Albert Erskine.
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| Deck E |
The world famous Harrity family. By Richard Harrity. New York : Trident Press, 1968.
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Inscribed, "For Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ellison, Two good human beings who, I hope in time, will become the good friends of-Richard
Harrity" on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The world of apples. By John Cheever. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
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| Deck E |
The world of Count Basie. By Stanley Dance. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.
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Review Copy.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The world of Eli Whitney. By Jeannette Mirsky and Allan Nevins. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1952.
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1st Printing.
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| B/I/3 |
The world of Faulkner. By Ward L. Miner. New York : Grove Press, [c1952].
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Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on half-title.
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| B/IV/4 |
The world of fiction. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Scrap paper with drawing and the book review inserted.
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| B/III/4 |
The world of Odysseus. By M.I. Finley. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
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1st printing.
Paperback.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
World of our fathers: The journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made. By Irving Howe. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
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Review Copy.
1st Edition.
Laid-in note from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The world of Swing. By Stanley Dance. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974.
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Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/V/3 |
A world on the wane. By Claude Levi-Strauss. Translated by John Russell. New York : Criterion Books, [c1961].
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Hardcover.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The world we imagine: Selected essays by Mark Schorer. By Mark Schorer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
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1st Printing.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
World within: Fiction Illuminating neuroses of our time. Edited by Mary Louise Aswell. Introduction and analyses by Frederic Wertham, M.D. New York : Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill
Book Company, Inc., 1947.
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Laid-in booklet removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
The world's body: Foundations for literary criticism. By John Crowe Ransom. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
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| A/II/1 |
Worlds in the making: probes for students of the future. Edited by Mary Jane Dunston and Patricia W. Garland. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1970].
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Paperback.
Includes: a passage from Invisible Man.
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| Deck E |
The wound and the bow: Seven studies in literature. By Edmund Wilson. Cambridge, MA : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
Woza Afrika! : An anthology of South African plays. Woza Afrika! : An anthology of South African plays.
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Edited by Duma Ndlovu.
Foreword by Wole Soyinka.
Preface by Amiri Baraka.
New York : George Braziller, 1986.
1st Printing.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/V/1 |
The wretched of the earth. By Frantz Fanon. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Constance Farrington. New York : Grove Press,
[1965, c.1963]. 1st printing.
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Publisher's note inserted.
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| Deck E |
Writer as independent spirit: Proceedings of the XXXIV international P.E.N. congress, June 12-June 18, 1966. New York : P.E.N. American Center, 1968.
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1st Edition.
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| Deck E |
Writer in a changing world: The trends in literature shown at the second American writers' congress. Edited by Henry Hart. New York : Equinox Cooperative Press, 1937.
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Signed by Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| A/IV/3 |
The writer in America. By Wallace Stegner. With notes by M. Hiramatsu. Knda, Japan : Kokuseido Press, [n.d.].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison in English and Japanese on the front free end paper.
Publisher's mark on back free end paper.
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| Deck E |
Writer in our world: A TriQuarterly symposium. Edited by Reginald Gibbons. Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in photocopy of manuscript letter from editor to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent
to this book.
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| Deck E |
The writer in the South: Studies in a literary community. By Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 1972.
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Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 15.
Heavy underlining throughout.
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| A/II/2 |
The writer's craft. Edited by John Hersey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [c1974].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
Bookstore advertisement inserted.
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| Deck E |
The writer's experience: Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. By Ralph Ellison and Karl Shapiro. Washington, DC : Library of Congress, 1964.
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Autographed by Ralph Ellison on title page.
Laid-in letter from Library of Congress removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/II/1 |
Writers and issues. Edited by Theodore Solotaroff. New York : Signet, [c1969].
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1st edition, 1st printing.
Paperback.
Includes "Tell It Like It is, Baby" by Ralph Ellison.
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| Deck E |
Writers at work: The Paris Review Interviews, fourth series. Edited by George Plimpton. Introduced by Wilfrid Sheed. New York : The Viking Press, 1976.
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Unrevised Proof.
Laid-in letter from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/VI/4 |
Writers at work: the Paris review interviews. Third Series. Introduced by Alfred Kazin. New York : Viking Press, [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| B/VI/1 |
Writers at work: the Paris review interviews. Edited and with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. New York : Viking Press, 1958.
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Complimentary copy.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
Marks within.
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| A/II/1 |
Writers at work: the Paris review interviews. Edited and with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. New York : Viking Press, [1963].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front free endpaper.
Two reviews inserted.
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| Deck E |
Writers in America: The four seasons of success. By Budd Schulberg. New York : Stein and Day, 1983.
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| A/II/2 |
Writers on artists. Edited by Daniel Halpern. San Francisco : North Point Press, 1988.
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| A/III/1 |
The wrong attitude: a bad boy at a good school. By Chandler A. Chapman. New York : J.P. Puttnam Sons, [c1940].
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Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on half-title.
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| A/V/4 |
Wuthering Heights. By Emily Brontë. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
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Hardcover.
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| Deck E |
Xaipe. By E.E. Cummings. Edited, with an afterword, by George James Firmage. New York : Liveright, 1979.
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Review Copy.
1st Edition.
Laid-in note card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| B/II/4 |
Yale French studies. Passion and the Intellect, or, Andre Malroux. No. 18, Winter, 1957. New Haven, CN : Yale University, 1957.
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on the front cover.
Marks and notes within.
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| Deck E |
Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and his family. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1944.
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Book has Dobbs Ferry Public Library stamp on title page.
Laid-in note card from library removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| Deck E |
Yates Paul, his grand flights, his tootings. By James Baker Hall. Cleveland, OH : The World Publishing Company, 1963.
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1st Edition.
Laid-in card from publisher removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this book.
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| A/VI/5 |
Yazoo: integration in a deep-southern town. By Willie Morris. New York : A Harper's Magazine Press Book published in association with Harper and Row., [c1975].
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1st edition.
Hardcover / dust jacket.
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| A/III/5 |
The year 2000: a framework for speculation on the next thirty-three years. By Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Weiner. Introduction by Daniel Bell. New York : MacMillan, Co, [c1967].
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Hardcover.
Inscribed to Ralph Ellison by the author on front free end paper.
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| B/IV/4 |
The year of decision. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1943.
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Hardcover.
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| A/V/4 |
The yearling. By Marjorie Kinnan Taelings. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1983].
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Hardcover.
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| B/VI/3 |
"Yellow Kid" Weil: the autobiography of America’s master swindler. As told to W.T. By Joseph Weil. Brannon. Published in Chicago : Ziff-Davis Publishing, [c1948].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper.
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| Deck E |
The yogi and the commissar and other essays. By Arthur Koestler. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1946.
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| A/VI/5 |
You can't get lost in Cape Town. By Zoe Wicomb. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1987].
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Uncorrected page proof.
Paperback.
Review copy.
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| A/IV/4 |
You, emperors, and others: poems, 1957-1960. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1960].
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1st printing.
Hardcover / dust jacket, plastic cover.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny Ellison on front free end paper.
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| A/III/5 |
Young American writers: fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Funk and Wagnells, [c1967].
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Hardcover / dust jacket.
Inscribed to Fanny and Ralph Ellison by the author on title page.
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| A/VI/2 |
Zero. No.2, 1949. Summer issue. Edited by Albert Benveniste and Themistocles Hoetis. Tangier : Zero Press, 1949.
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| X/X/X |
Miscellaneous : Baldwin, James. Photocopy of James Baldwin v. Stationery with Outlined Hand and Signature. |
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| A/VII/3 |
Miscellaneous : Certificate of life membership. "This certifies that Ralph Ellison is a life member of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)... December, 1973."
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| A/VIII/4 |
Miscellaneous : Flute. Owned by Ellison. |
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| A/VIII/5 |
Miscellaneous : National Book Award. For the most distinguished book of fiction in 1952. Awarded to Ralph Ellison. |
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| CONSULT Reference Staff
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Journals, 1937-1992
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Serials and journals owned by Ralph Ellison. |
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Arranged alphabetically and by date. |
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50° Congresso Mondale. P.E.N. Club International. Lugano, 10-17maggio 1987. Writers and Border Literature. |
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Paperback. |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Records of the Academy 1963-1964. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Annotation on front cover states, “Notice of my election here.” [1964]. Writers and Border Literature.
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Paperback. |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Records of the Academy 1977-1978. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
[1977]. Writers and Border Literature.
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Paperback. |
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American Scholar: A quarterly for the independent thinker. Volume 35, Number 2. Washington, D.C.: United Chapters of Phi
Beta Kappa, Printed by The William Byrd Press, Inc., 1966. Spring, 1966. Writers and Border Literature.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Beloit Poetry Journal. Chapbook number 1. Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1951. |
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by Langston Hughes inside front cover. Paperback. |
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Bennington Review. Volume III, Number 1. Winter, 1969. Bennington, VT: Bennington College, 1969. |
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Black Photographers Annual. Volume 3. Foreword by Gordon Parks. Introduction by James Baldwin. Brooklyn, NY: Black Photographers
Annual, Inc., 1975.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Hardcover. |
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Brown, Sterling A. Negro poetry and drama. Bronze Booklet Number 7. Washington, D.C.: The Associates in Negro Folk Education,
Annotated throughout. 1937.
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Signed by Ellison on title page. Paperback. |
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Callaloo. Volume 11, Number 3. Summer, 1988. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. |
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Annotated on front cover and on title page. Paperback |
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Callaloo. Volume 18, Number 2. Spring, 1995. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955. |
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Annotated on front cover. Paperback. |
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Callaloo #25. Volume 8, Number 3. Fall, 1985. Recent essays from Europe: A special issue. Charlottesville, VA : Department
of English, University of Virginia, 1985.
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Annotated on front cover. Paperback. |
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Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. Volume 2, Number 2. Fall-Winter, 1990. New York: Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced
Legal Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, 1990.
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Laid-in letter from Barrie Stavis to Ralph and Fanny Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to
this volume. Inscribed to Ralph by Barrie Stavis on title page. Paperback.
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Beloit Poetry Journal. Chapbook number 1. Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1951. |
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by Langston Hughes inside front cover. Paperback. |
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Chandler, Raymond. The finger man and other stories. Murder Mystery Monthly. Number 43. New York: Avon Publications,
Paperback.1946.
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Heavily annotated on title page with some light annotation throughout. |
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Chisholm, G.B. The psychiatry of enduring peace and social progress. The William Alanson White Memorial Lectures. Second
Series. Foreword by Abe Fortas. Discussion by Henry A. Wallace, Watson B. Miller, Samuel W. Hamilton, et al. Baltimore,
MD: The William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, Inc., 1946.
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Paperback. |
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Classic Johannesburg Quarterly. Volume 1, Number 1. 1963. Editor: Nathaniel Nakasa. Johannesburg: The Classic Magazine Trust
Fund, 1963.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter from editor to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume.
Paperback
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Confluence: An international forum. Volume 3, Number 1. March, 1954. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College,
1954.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Confluence: An international forum. Volume 3, Number 4. December, 1954. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College,
1954.
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Confluence: An international forum. Volume 4, Number 1. April, 1955. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College,
1955.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Confluence: An international forum. Volume 4, Number 2. July, 1955. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College,
1955.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Confluence: An international forum. Volume 4, Number 4. January, 1956. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College,
1956.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Beloit Poetry Journal. Chapbook number 1. Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1951. |
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Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by Langston Hughes inside front cover. Paperback. |
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Congressional Record. Proceedings and Debates of the 89th Congress, 1st Session. Volume 111, Number 170. Washington, Wednesday, September 15, 1965. |
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. |
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Coronet. Volume 2, Number 5. September 1, 1937. Chicago, IL: David A. Smart, 1937. |
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Paperback/housed in archival envelope. |
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Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Perspectives on the novel. Volume 92, Number 2. Spring 1963.
Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, LCCN 12-30299. 1963.
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Annotated throughout, including on very last page. Paperback. |
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Drumvoices Revue: A confluence of literary, cultural and vision arts. Fall/Winter 1991/92. Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 2. Premier
Issue: “From Ethiopia to East St. Louis: A Tapestry of Wordweavings.” Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,
Department of English, 1992.
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Inscribed, “To Ralph Ellison: who elevated us through word and deed” by Eugene B. Redmond on first page. Paperback. |
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Encounter. Volume XXXII, Number 1. January 1969. Edited by Melvin J. Lasky and Nigel Dennis. Haymarket, London: Encounter,
Ltd., 1969.
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Paperback. |
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Era. Spring, 1965. Pennsylvania: Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, 1965. |
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Annotated on front cover. Very light annotation throughout. Paperback. |
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Esquire: The magazine for men. Volume XL, Number 6. December, 1953. New York: Esquire Inc., Paperback. 1953. |
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Papberback. |
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Esquire: The magazine for men. Volume XLVIII, Number 3. September, 1957. New York: Esquire Inc.,
1953.
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Paperback. |
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Esquire: The magazine for men. Back to college issue. Volume LVIII, Number 3. September, 1962. New York: Esquire Inc., 1962. |
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Annotation on front cover explains that this magazine was kept for the Harlem cartoons on pages 136-139. Paperback. |
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Esquire: The magazine for men. Volume LXVIII, Number 6. December, 1967. Super Christmas issue. New York: Esquire Inc.,
1967.
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Possibly saved for article on Truman Capote. Paperback. |
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Essays in criticism: A quarterly journal of literary criticism. Volume II, Number 4. October 1952. Edited by F.W. Bateson.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952.
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Light underlining throughout. Paperback. |
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Euros. The Origins of Culture. Number 1. Autumn 1964. London: The Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd., 1964. |
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Paperback. |
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Fortune. Volume XXXIV, Number 4. October, 1946. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1946. |
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Paperback. |
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Fortune. A special issue on business and the urban crisis. Volume LXXVII, Number 1. January, 1968. Chicago, IL: Time Inc.,
1968.
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Paperback. |
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From South Africa: New writing, photographs and art. A special issue of TriQuarterly magazine. TriQuarterly 69. Spring/Summer,
1987. Edited by David Bunn and Jane Taylor with Reginald Gibbons and Sterling Plump. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University,
1987.
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Laid-in photocopy of letter from Reginald Gibbons at TriQuarterly to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately
adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
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Harper’s: An American perspective. Writing from Harper’s Magazine 1850-1984. Edited by Ann Marie Cunningham. |
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Laid-in item removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Holiday. Volume 5, Number 4. April, 1949. Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1949. Possibly saved by Ellison for
the article on Harlem which begins on page 110. Also, a poem by Langston Hughes appears on page 164. 1949.
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Paperback. |
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Holiday. Volume 27, Number 6. June, 1960. Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, Possibly saved for the article The Meaning of Harlem by Peter Abrahams on page 74. 1960. |
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Paperback. |
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Hound and Horn. Volume V, Number 4. July-September, 1932. Concord, NH: The Hound and Horn, Inc., 1932. |
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Paperback. |
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Images: An anthology of Black literature. Number 3. Curriculum Bulletin. 1971-72 Series. New York: Board of Education, 1971. |
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Journal of Social Issues. Volume IX, Number 4. 1953. Desegregation: An appraisal of the evidence. Issue author: Kenneth B.
Clark. New York: Association Press, 1953.
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Inscription on cover states, “To Ralph—This tries to do what you do so much better. Kenneth.” Paperback. |
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Kenyon Review. Winter 1940. Volume II, Number 1. Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1940. |
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Paperback. |
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Kenyon Review. Autumn 1959. Volume XXI, Number 4. Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1959. |
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Annotated on front and rear covers, with some light annotation throughout. Paperback. |
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Kenyon Review. Autumn 1959. Volume XXI, Number 4. Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1959. |
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Annotated on front and rear covers, with some light annotation throughout. Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 21, Number 3. August 6, 1956. International Edition. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1956. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 40, Number 24. June 11, 1956. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1956. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 41, Number 12. September 17, 1956. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., Possibly saved by Ellison for the articles Impact
of Integration and South on Segregation. 1956.
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 41, Number 13. September 24, 1956. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1956. |
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Annotation on front cover explains that this was saved by Ellison for the article A Segregated Life which begins on page 98.
Paperback.
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LIFE. Volume 44, Number 10. March 10, 1958. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1958. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 45, Number 3. July 21, 1958. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1958. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 46, Number 1. January 5, 1959. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1959. |
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Annotation on front cover states “Keep for China” and on page 44 begins an article called Red China Bid for a Future. Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 49, Number 11. September 12, 1960. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., Possibly saved by Ellison for the article on page
37 called Racial Fury Over Sit-ins. 1960.
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 50, Number 24. June 16, 1961. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1961. |
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Annotation on front explains that this was saved for the article beginning on page 86 in which the photographs were taken
by Gordon Parks. Paperback.
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LIFE. Volume 54, Number 24. June 14, 1963. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1963. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 54, Number 26. June 28, 1963. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., Possibly saved by Ellison for article on Medgar Evers
which begins on page 34. 1963.
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 56, Number 6. February 7, 1964. Chicago, IL: Time Inc.,1964. |
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LIFE. Volume 64, Number 10. March 8, 1968. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., Possibly saved by Ellison for special section included
in this issue entitled The Cycle of Despair: The Negro and the City. 1968.
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 64, Number 15. April 12, 1968. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., Possibly saved by Ellison for article on Martin Luther
King, Jr.’s death on page 74. 1968.
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 65, Number 20. November 15, 1968. Chicago, IL : Time Inc., . 1968. |
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Annotation on front cover points to the article about Gordon Parks which begins on page 116. Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 65, Number 22. November 22, 1968. Chicago, IL : Time Inc., 1968. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 65, Number 22. November 29, 1968. Chicago, IL : Time Inc., 1968. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 65, Number 23. December 6, 1968. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1968. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 67, Number 15. October 10, 1969. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1969. |
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Paperback. |
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LIFE. Volume 73, Number 17. October 27, 1972. Chicago, IL: Time Inc., 1972. |
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Paperback. |
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LOOK. Volume 25, Number 7. March 28, 1961. Des Moines, IA: Cowles Communications, Inc., 1961. Possibly saved by Ellison for section called Africa beginning on page 27. |
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Paperback. |
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LOOK. Volume 32, Number 23. November 12, 1968. Des Moines, IA: Cowles Communications, Inc., 1968. Possibly saved by Ellison for article called A National Disgrace: What Unions Do to Blacks on page 33 and article called The Story of James Earl Ray and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. on page 96. |
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Paperback. |
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LOOK. Volume 33, Number 6. March 18, 1969. Des Moines, IA: Cowles Co,,unications, Inc., 1969. Possibly saved by Ellison for article called Jazzman’s Last Ramble on page 100. |
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Paperback. |
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Massachusetts Review. Autumn 1967. Amherst, MS: The Massachusetts Review, Inc., 1967. Annotated on front cover. |
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Paperback. |
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Mark Twain Journal. Volume XV, Number 1, Winter 1970. Edited by Cyril Clemens. Kirkwood, MO :Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1970. |
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Inscribed, “Knight of Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, a master of his art!” by Cyril Clemens on cover. Paperback. |
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Modern Fiction Studies. A critical quarterly. Volume 4, Number 3. Autumn, 1958. Lafayette, IN: The Modern Fiction Club, Department
of English, Purdue University, [1958].
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Signed by Ellison on front cover. Paperback. |
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Modern Fiction Studies. A critical quarterly. Volume XI, Number 4. Winter, 1965-1966. Lafayette, IN: The Modern Fiction Club,
Department of English, Purdue University, [1965].
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Annotation on front cover. Paperback. |
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New American Review. Number 14. A Touchstone Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1972. 1st Printing. LCCN 67-27377. |
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Paperback. |
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New Horizons: World Guide. Pan American’s Travel Facts about 96 Countries. Edited by Gerald W. Whitted. New York: Pan American
Airways, 1962. LCCN 54-5818.
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Hardcover. |
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New Letters: A magazine of fine writing. Volume 48, Numbers 3 and 4. Spring/Summer, 1982. India: An anthology of contemporary writing. Edited by David Ray and Amritjit Singh. Kansas City, MO: University of Missouri-Kansas
City, 1982.
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Inscribed, “For Ralph Waldo Ellison—you are teaching still and I hope I am learning some. Regards and best wishes, Amritjit
Singh. April 11, 1984. New York” on title page. Paperback.
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New South. Volume 21, Number 2. Spring, 1966. Atlanta, GA: Southern Regional Council, 1966. |
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. |
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New World Writing. 5th Mentor Selection. A New Adventure in Modern Reading. New York: New American Library and World Literature
Inc., 1954.
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Paperback. |
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New York Times Magazine. May 1, 1966. New York: The New York Times, 1966. |
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Paperback. |
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New York Times Magazine. May 15, 1983. New York: The New York Times, 1983. |
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Paperback. |
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New York Times Magazine. January 17, 1982. New York: The New York Times, 1982. |
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Paperback. |
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New York Times Magazine. Special Issue: America in Captivity: Points of Decision in the Hostage Crisis. New York: The New
York Times, 1981.
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Paperback. |
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Noble Savage. 1. March, 1960. New York: Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. |
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Some light annotation found inside. Signed by Ellison on front cover. Paperback |
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Obsidian: Black literature in review. Volume 1, Number 1. Fredonia, NY: Department of English, State University College,
1975.
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Paperback |
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Noble Savage. 1. March, 1960. New York: Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. |
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Some light annotation found inside. Signed by Ellison on front cover. Paperback |
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Okike: An African Journal of New Writing. Volume 1, Number 3. September, 1973. Edited by Chinua Achebe. Enugu, Nigeria: Nwamife
Publishers, 1972.
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Inscrption on title page reads, “Dear Ralph Ellison, I am sending this to you with the compliments of the editor, Chinua Achebe.
I still relish the memory of that pleasant evening in the Summer of 1973 in company of William Jay Smith, Richard Wilbur and
others. Best Regards, Ossie Enekwe.” Paperback.
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Paris Review. Number Eight. Paris, France: Paris Review, [1954]. |
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Signed by Ralph Ellison on front free endpaper. Paperback serial rebound by Ellison into hardcover. |
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Partisan Review: A literary monthly. Volume IV, Number 4. March, 1938. New York: Partisan Review, 1938. |
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Paperback. |
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Partisan Review: A literary monthly. Volume XXII, Number 2. Spring, 1955. New York: Foundation for Cultural Projects, 1955. Paperback. |
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Some light annotation found inside. Signed by Ellison on front cover. Paperback |
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Partisan Review: A literary monthly. Volume XXV, Number 2. Spring, 1958. New York: Foundation for Cultural Projects, 1958. |
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Annotated on front cover. Signed by Ralph Ellison on front cover. Paperback. |
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P.E.N. XXX. Kongress des Internationalen P.E.N. Frankfurt am Main, 1959. Schone Literature im Zeitalter der Wissenschaft (Imaginative literature in the age of science). July 19-25, 1959. |
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Laid-in card removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Edited by John Hurt Fisher, Secretary of the Association.
Volume LXXX, Number 1. March, 1965. Menasha, WI: Modern Language Association of America, 1965.
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Annotated on front cover. Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Poetry: The Australian quarterly of verse. Number 16. 1945. Edited by Flexmore Hudson. Adelaide: Economy Press, 1945. |
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Annotation on title page. Paperback. |
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Poetry: The Australian quarterly of verse. Number 18. 1946. Edited by Flexmore Hudson. Adelaide: Economy Press, 1946. |
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Annotation on title page. Paperback. |
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Prarie Schooner. Volume XLV, Number 4. Winter 1971/72. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska, 1972. Annotated throughout.
Paperback.1960.
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Some light annotation found inside. Signed by Ellison on front cover. Paperback |
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Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Second Series, Number thirty-four. Publication number
355. New York: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983.
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Annotated on front cover. Paperback. |
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Pushcart Prize, VIII: Best of the small presses. 1983-84 Edition. Edited by Bill Henderson with Pushcart Prize editors. Introduction
by Gail Godwin. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1983. LCCN 76-58675.
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Laid-in letter from editor removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Hardcover/dust jacket. |
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Salmagundi. A quarterly of the humanities and social sciences. Number 20. Summer-Fall, 1972. Psychological man: Approaches to an emergent social type. Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1972. |
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Laid-in photocopy of note to Ellison from Robert Moore removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume.
Paperback.
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Struggle. Organ of the Vanguard. Number 1. May [1936]. New York: The Vanguard. |
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Paperback. |
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Studies in American Fiction. Volume 1, Number 1. Spring, 1973. Boston: Northeastern University, 1973. |
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Tamarack Review. Summer Issue, 1964. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,1964. |
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Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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TriQuarterly 6. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1972. |
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Laid-in letter from editor to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Annotation
on front cover. Paperback.
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TriQuarterly 58. Fall 1983. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1983. |
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Laid-in letter from editor to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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TRUE: For Today’s Adventurous Man. Volume 52, Number 412.September 1971. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1971. |
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Paperback. |
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Tuskegee Messenger: A semi-monthly journal of Negro progress and interracial good will. Volume VII, Numbers 9-10. May 9-23, 1931. Fiftieth Anniversary. Alabama: Tuskegee Institute Press, 1931. |
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Annotation on front cover states, “Loaned by the Messenger Office.” |
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Umbra. Volume 1, Number 1. Winter, 1963. New York: Society of Umbra, 1963. |
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Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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The Urbanite: Images of the American Negro. Volume 1, Number 2. April 1961. New York: The Urbanite Publishing Co., Inc., 1961. 1961. . Possibly saved by Ellison for article by Langston Hughes on page 10 called A Good Job Gone. |
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Paperback. |
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Venturer: A literary-art magazine. Volume XLV. Winter 1972. New York: The Hewitt School, 1972. |
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Laid-in photocopy of letter and address removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Virginia Quarterly Review: A National Journal of Literature and Discussion. Volume 60, Number 2. Spring, 1984. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 1984.
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Inscription on front cover. Paperback. |
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Virginia Quarterly Review: A National Journal of Literature and Discussion. Volume 62, Number 3. Summer, 1986. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 1986. |
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Inscription on front cover. Paperback. |
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Vogue. October 15, 1949. New York: Conde Nast Publications Inc., 1949. |
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Annotation on front cover points the reader to page 86, where there is a picture taken by Francis Steegmuller, and was possibly
developed by Ralph Ellison. Note on cover states, “p. 86 (Francis Steegmuller—photographer. Ralph’s Darkroom work.”
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Yardbird Reader. Volume 4. 1st Edition. Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing Cooperative, 1975. LCCN 73-75226. |
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Paperback. |
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Newspaper clippings predominantly from The New York Times. Dates ranging from . 1979-1983 |
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TriQuarterly 58. Fall 1983. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1983. |
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Laid-in letter from editor to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback. |
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Ephemera, 1968-2002
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Ephemeral items owned by Ralph Ellison including invitations to historic events as well as 16 awards. |
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Arranged alphabetically by primary correspondent's name |
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Blank card. Picture on front is of horses in the snow. There is a caption on the bottom left stating “February” and on the
right is the artist’s name: Grant Wood.
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Card housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Letter and two book reproductions. The first is Robert Bremner’s Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany and the second is A Little Keyboard Book compiled and edited by Mr. Darling. |
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Letter and books are housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Funeral Booklet from Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.’s funeral service. Also includes photocopied letter from FDR Jr.’s wife
Linda.
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Letter and booklet housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Hires Extract Advertisement-Children’s Booklet. Lithograph printed by the U.S. Printing and Lithograph Company, no date given.
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Booklet housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Invitation to the opening of the exhibit The Bowery: Portrait of a Changing Street at Goethe House in New York on Tuesday,
October 19, 1982.
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Envelope, pamphlet and invitation all housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Invitation for Ralph and Fanny Ellison to attend the premier of the movie Sophie’s Choice and the Supper Party. Invite was
sent from Arts, Letters and Politics, Inc. in New York, NY.
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Envelope and invitation housed in archival envelope and labeled. |
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MIS przyjaciel najmlodszych (youngest friend). Polish children’s book. 1981. One large sheet printed on and folded into sections,
but uncut. Contains poems and activities for young children.
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Housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Newspaper clipping showing lynching. Annotation on the back of the article.
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Clipping housed in archival folder and labeled. |
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Awards
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The 52 Street Americana Festival presents the Duke Ellington Memorial Award to Ralph Ellison for his essay on Duke Ellington’s
contribution to American culture on the occasion of Mr. Ellington’s 70th birthday. September 30, 1990.
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Wooden plaque. |
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Carnegie Corporation for the Advancement and Diffusion of Knowledge and Understanding. Ralph Ellison. Plaque design by [Paul
Manship] c1987.
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The City College of New York. Langston Hughes Award. For contributions to the Arts and Letters. Ralph Waldo Ellison.
April 11, 1984.
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Award is in light blue Tiffany and Co. pouch. |
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Courses by Newspaper. University of California Extension, San Diego National Endowment for the Humanities. To Ralph W. Ellison
in appreciation of his dedicated service while a member of the National Board Courses by Newspaper. April, 1975 to December, 1977.
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The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University 1963. One side states “A house divided against itself cannot
stand.” Reverse: Shows Lincoln and the dates 1809-1865 and states, “With malice toward none…with charity for all.”
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The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University. One side states, “The shot heard round the world” and “Concord
Hymn.” Reverse: Shows Ralph Waldo Emerson and the dates 1803-1882. c1968.
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Wooden plaque. |
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Hudson Institute. Policy research in the public interest. Certificate of membership. “This is to certify that Ralph Ellison
has been duly admitted as a public member of Hudson Institute, Inc.…for a term commencing on December 29, 1967 and ending
December 31, 1974…” on January 1, 1970.
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Award is signed by the Director [Herman Kahn] and the Secretary |
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Museum of the City of New York. More than a mirror to the past. 1923. 50th Anniversary. 1973. |
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National Medal of Arts. On reverse: United States of America. Ralph Ellison. |
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New York Public Library. Literary Lions 10th Anniversary. Reverse: A decade of literary lions. |
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Gold medal hangs from orange cloth. |
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The 52 Street Americana Festival presents the Duke Ellington Memorial Award to Ralph Ellison for his essay on Duke Ellington’s
contribution to American culture on the occasion of Mr. Ellington’s 70th birthday. September 30, 1990.
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Wooden plaque. |
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Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation, Inc. Ralph Ellison. 1994 Wall of Fame Humanitarian Award. Made at Midwest Trophy
Manufacturing. Del City, OK.
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Award is made of lucite and sits in a black stand. |
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Oklahoma Heritage Association Hall of Fame Medal. Reverse: Ralph Ellison, 2002.
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Green, red, and gold medal hangs from maroon cloth. |
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Sophomore class ’70 of the University of Notre Dame presents to Ralph Ellison this expression of appreciation for his participation
in 1968 Sophomore festival Notre Dame, April 1-6.
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Wooden plaque. |
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Tuskegee National Alumni Association presents to Ralph Ellison in appreciation for the continued service he has given to Tuskegee
Institute and his outstanding contributions to the literary field. December 15, 1974.
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Wake Forest University. 1834. Pro Humanitate. Ralph Ellison. For service as a member of the Wake Forest Board of Visitors
1983-1986.
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