Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison [1972 PAPERBACK]

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK [1972] VINTAGE BOOKS

First Vintage Books paperback printing with rare cover! 

Book is in very good condition.   Cover has some chipping to edges and some general shelf wear.   Excellent vintage reading copy;  tight binding and nice evenly tanned pages. 

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.