Invisible Man

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A hardcover, first edition of Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison, with a paper and plastic dustjacket. The front cover art of the jacket depicts a human face with one eyebrow, one eye, and a portion of the face covered in a spreading blackness. Two intersecting lines form a crosshairs centered over the face. Two-tone text white, gold, and red throughout the front reads [INVISIBLE / MAN / A NOVEL / BY RALPH ELLISON / A RANDOM HOUSE BOOK]. The spine of the jacket has the title and author’s name in gold text with the Random House publisher’s house logo. The interior jacket flaps have a summary of the book and a biography of the author printed in black text on a cream background. The back of the jacket consists of an edge-to-edge black-and-white studio photograph of Ellison dressed in a checkered button-down shirt.

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