Isbn: 9780375408274 - ralph ellison: a biography (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 672 pp. Biography of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. New in new dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Hard cover, 657 pp. including index. Photographs inside. "In 1953, Ralph Ellison's explosive story of an innocent young black man's often surreal search for truth and his identity, Invisible Man, won him the National Book Award for fiction and catapulted him to national prominence. Ellison went on to earn many other honors, including two presidential medals and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, but his failure to publish a second novel, despite years of striving, haunted him for the rest of his life. Now, as the first scholar given complete access to Ellison's papers, Arnold Rampersad has written not only a reliable account of the main events of Ellison's life but also a complex, authoritative portrait of an unusual artist and human being. "Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled in magisterial prose the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography." Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Ralph Ellison's place in American literature demands a biography that is as eloquent, thorough and wise as its subject. This is it. The book represents a flawless match of biographer and subject in Arnold Rampersad's hands we fathom both the burden and measure of Ellison's brilliance." Toni Morrison." Brand new book in brand new dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover. …

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 657pp. Publisher's photographic dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; boards bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped lightly at spine ends and corners; some staining to rear panel. Foxing appears along spine, at top edge of front panel, and on jacket flaps. Boards lightly bumped but otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock shows some foxing; endsheets and interior pages clean. Overall Very Good or better. Signed and dated by the author on full title page.…