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BOOKCASE 1 through 8 Books, 1955-2010
Books from Ralph Ellison's personal library.
Arranged alphabetically primary by title.
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.
Deck E 20 best plays of the modern American theatre. Edited with an introduction by John Gassner. New York : Crown Publishers, 1939.
Deck E 31 letters and 13 dreams. By Richard Hugo. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977.
A/II/5 77 dream songs. By John Berryman. New York : Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, [c1964].
B/V/4 ABC of reading. By Ezra Pound. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, [1951?].
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.
B/VI/3 About people. By William Steig. New York : Duel, Sloan, and Pearce, [c1939].
A/VII/3 About the house. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1965].
A/VII/4 Abraham Lincoln goes to New York. By Andrew A. Freeman. New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., [c1960].
A/VII/4 Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858. By Albert J. Beveridge. In two volumes. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1928].
Deck E Absalom, Absalom! Introduction by Harvey Breit. By William Faulkner. New York : The Modern Library / Random House, 1951.
Deck E The academic revolution. By Christopher Jencks and David Riesman. Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968.
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.
B/I/3 The achievement of William Faulkner. By Michael Millgate. New York : Random House, [c1966].
B/II/1 Across the river and into the trees. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
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.
B/V/5 Act and the Actor: making the self. By Harold Rosenberg. New York : World Publishing, [1972].
Deck E Act and the actor: Making the self. By Harold Rosenberg. New York : The World Publishing Company, 1973.
Deck E Ada or Ardor: A family chronicle in five parts. By Vladimir Nabokov. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
Deck E Adlai Stevenson. By Lillian Ross. Philadelphia, PA : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.
Deck E Adventures in the Alaskan skin trade. By John Hawkes. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1985.
A/II/5 The adventures of Augie March. By Saul Bellow. New York : Viking Press, 1953.
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].
B/III/1 The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain. With an introduction by T.S. Eliot. London : Cresset Press, 1950.
A/V/5 The adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe. With the color woodcuts of Pierre Falke. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
B/III/1 The adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Mark Twain. With the illustrations of T.W. Williams. Franklin Center,PA : Franklin Library, [c1983].
A/IV/3 Adversity and grace: studies in recent American literature. Edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [c1968].
B/III/4 Aeschylus and Athens: a study in the social origins of drama. By George Thomson. London : Lawrence and Wishart, [1946].
A/V/4 Aesop's fables. By Aesop. From translation of Thomas James and George Tyler Townsend. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1982].
A/V/1 Africa dances. By Geoffrey Gorer. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [c.1935].
A/V/1 The Africa reader. Edited and with introduction by Wilfred Cartey and Martin Kilson. New York : Random House, [c.1970].
Deck E African images. By Harold Scheub. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Webster Division, 1972.
Deck E African silences. By Peter Matthiessen. New York : Random House, 1991.
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].
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].
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].
A/II/1 Afro-American literature: fiction. Edited by William Adams, Peter Conn, and Barry Slepian. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [c1970].
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.
Deck E The Afro-American novel and its traditions. By Bernard W. Bell. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
A/II/3 After alienation. By Marcus Klein. Cleveland, NY : World Publishing Co., 1964.
Deck E After such pleasures. By Dorothy Parker. New York : The Viking Press, 1933.
B/IV/5 Afternoon of a pawnbroker and other poems. By Kenneth Fearing. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1943].
Deck E Against the American grain: Essays on the effects of mass culture. By Dwight Macdonald. New York : Random House,1962.
A/VII/3 The age of anxiety: a baroque eclogue. By W.H. Auden. New York : Random House, [c1947].
Deck E The age of discontinuity: Guidelines to our changing society. By Peter F. Druker. New York : Harper & Row, 1968.
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.
Deck E The age of happy problems. By Herbert Gold. New York : The Dial Press, 1962.
Deck E The age of overkill: A preface to world politics. By Max Lerner. London : William Heinemann Ltd., 1964.
B/VI/2 The age of reform from Bryan to F.D.R. By Richard Hofstadter. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Deck E Ah, sweet dancer. By W.B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock. Edited by Roger McHugh. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1971.
B/V/3 The air conditioned nightmare. By Henry Miller. New York : New Directions, [c1945].
A/IV/3 Albert Camus. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. London : Bowes and Bowes, [1962].
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].
A/II/2 Alienated Man: Literature of estrangement, dissent, and revolt. Edited by Eva Taube. New York : Hayden Book Co., [c1972].
Deck E All about H. Hatterr. By G.V. Desani. New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., 1951.
A/VI/4 All god's dangers: the life of Nate Shaw. By Theodore Rosengarten. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Deck E All our kin: Strategies for survival in a Black community. By Carol B. Stack. New York : Harper & Row, 1974.
A/VI/1 All shot up. By Chester Himes. New York : Avon Books, [c1960].
B/III/2 All the king's men. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1946].
A/IV/4 All the king's men. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1946].
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].
Deck E Ally betrayed: The uncensored story of Tito and Mihailovich. By David Martin. Foreword by Rebecca West. New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1946.
Deck E Along this way: The autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. By James Weldon Johnson. New York : The Viking Press, 1933.
A/VIII/4 The ambassadors. By Henry James. With introductions by Martin W. Sampson and John C. Gerber. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1948].
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].
B/V/3 America as a civilization: life and thought in the United States today. By Max Lerner. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.
B/VI/2 The American character. By Denis W. Brogan. New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
Deck E The American commonwealth; In two volumes; Volume II. By James Bryce. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1911.
A/VI/1 American counterpoint: slavery and racism in the North-South dialogue. By Comer Vann Woodward. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1971].
Deck E American daughter. By Era Bell Thompson. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 1946.
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.
Deck E An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. Volume 2. By Gunnar Myrdal. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1944.
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].
Deck E American dreams: Lost and found. By Studs Terkel. New York : Pantheon Books, 1980.
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.
A/VIII/4 The American essays. By Henry James. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
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.
Deck E American humor: A study of the National character. By Constance Rourke. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
A/IV/5 American hunger. By Richard Wright. New York : Harper and Row, [1977].
A/IV/5 American hunger. By Richard Wright. Afterword by Michael Fabre. New York : Harper and Row, [c1977].
A/VIII/1 American journal: poems. By Robert Hayden. New York : Liveright, [c1982].
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.
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.
Deck E The American monomyth. By Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Garden City, NY : Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1977.
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].
Deck E An American notebook. By Philip Hamburger. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
B/IV/4 The American novel and its tradition. By Richard V. Chase. Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Co., 1957.
Deck E American novel from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. Edited by Wallace Stegner. New York : Basic Books, Inc., 1965.
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.
Deck E The American people: A study in national character. By Geoffrey Gorer. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1948.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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].
A/II/1 The American review: the magazine of new writing. No. 16 February, 1973. Edited by Theodore Solotaroff. New York : Bantam, 1973.
Deck E American satire in prose and verse. Edited by Henry C. Carlisle, Jr. New York : Random House, 1962.
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.
B/II/1 The American scene. By Henry James. London : Chapman and Howe, 1907.
B/IV/2 American short novels. By R.P. Blackmur. New York : Thomas W. Crowell Co., [c1960].
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.
Deck E American talk: Where our words came from. By J.L. Dillard. New York : Random House, 1976.
Deck E Americana. By Don DeLillo. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971.
Deck E Americans are alone in the world. By Luigi Barzini, Jr. New York : Random House, 1953.
B/IV/2 The Americans: the colonial experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [1958].
Deck E The Americans: The democratic experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, 1973.
B/IV/2 The Americans: the democratic experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [c1973].
B/IV/2 The Americans: the national experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York : Random House, [1967].
A/II/3 Amerika erzahlt: seventeen short stories. Edited by Heinz Politzer. Frankfurt : Fischer Buchere, [1958].
Deck E Amistad 1: Writings on Black history and culture. Edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris. New York : Vintage Books, 1970.
Deck E Amistad 2: Writings on Black history and culture. Edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris. New York : Vintage Books, 1971.
Deck E The Amistad affair. By Christopher Martin. London : Abelard-Schuman, 1970.
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].
B/VI/2 The anatomy of American popular culture, 1840-1861. By Carl Bode. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1959.
B/VI/4 Anatomy of criticism: four essays. By Northrup Frye. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1957.
B/VI/4 An anatomy of literature. By Edward M. Maisel. New York : Standert and Hall, 1938.
B/V/5 Ancient art and ritual. By Jane Ellen Harrison. London : Oxford University Press, [1948].
Deck E Ancient medieval and modern Christianity: The evolution of a religion. By Charles Guignebert. New Hyde Park, NY : University Books, 1961.
Deck E And it came to pass-not to stay. By R. Buckminster Fuller. New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976.
B/III/3 And keep your powder dry: an anthropologist looks at America. By Margaret Mead. New York : William Morrow and Co., 1942.
Deck E And so man dreams. By Bruce Kaduk. Palo Alto, CA : Morning Star Books, 1991.
B/II/2 And then we heard the thunder. By Joan Oliver Killens. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
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