Two-toned black and beige cloth with vignette stamped in gray around upper spine area, spine lettered in white over black portion, top edge stained bluish black, pictorial jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer and with a portrait of Ellison by Gordon Parks on the back panel. First Edition, First Printing.

The jacket wraparound band for National Book Award laid in. Ellison's first book, winner of the National Book Award. Classic African-American work and a high spot in twentieth century American literature. Tells the story of a black man's existence in a white world, where he resides in his basement lair and lives as an invisible man to the world. With publisher's "A.B." on bottom of copyright page as considered required for the first printing.