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B/I/3 William Faulkner: the Yoknapatawpha country. By Cleanth Brooks. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1963.
B/I/3 William Faulkner: three decades of criticism. Edited by Frederick John Hoffman and Olga W. Vickery. New York : Harcourt, Brace, and World, A Harbinger Book, [1963].
B/I/3 William Faulkner: two decades of criticism. Edited by Frederick J. Hoffman and Olga W. Vickery. Ann Arbor : Michigan State College Press, 1951.
Deck E Wind and birds and human voices and other stories. By Ellen Wilbur. [S.l.] : Stuart Wright, 1984.
A/IV/4 Wind and birds and human voices and other stories. By Ellen Wilbur. [S.l.] : Stuart Wright, [c1984].
B/VI/2 The wind blew from the East: a study in the orientation of American culture. By Ferner Nuhn. New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1942].
B/II/5 The winds of fear. By Hodding Carter. New York : Farrar and Rinehart, [c1944].
B/II/3 The wings of the dove. By Henry James. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945.
B/II/3 The wings of the dove. By Henry James. New York : Modern Library, [c1937].
A/VIII/3 Winner take nothing. By Ernest Hemingway. New York : Charles Scriber's Sons, 1933.
Deck E Winter notes on summer impressions. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. With a foreword by Saul Bellow. New York : Criterion Books, 1955.
A/IV/2 Winter of artifice: three novelettes. By Anais Nin. Denver : Alan Swallow, [c1948].
B/I/4 The wishing tree. By William Faulkner. Illustrated by Don Bolognese. New York : Random House, [c1964].
Deck E With all my might: An autobiography. By Erskine Caldwell. Atlanta, GA : Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1987.
Deck E Without love. By Gerald Hanley. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1957.
Deck E Witness. By Whittaker Chambers. New York : Random House, 1952.
Deck E The Wizard of Oz. By L. Frank Baum. Pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago : Donohue, [c1903].
B/V/2 The woman at the Washington zoo: poems and translations. By Randall Jarrell. New York : Atheneum, 1960.
Deck E A woman unashamed and other poems. By Paul Engle. New York : Random House, 1965.
B/VII/5 Women and Thomas Harrow. By John P. Marquand. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [c1958].
Deck E The women at Point Sur and other poems. By Robinson Jeffers. Afterword by Tim Hunt. New York : Liveright, 1977.
Deck E Wonders: Writings and drawings for the child in us all. Edited by Jonathan Cott and Mary Gimbel. New York : Rolling Stone Press / Summit Books, 1980.
Deck E The wooden horse: Poems by Daryl Hine. By Daryl Hine. New York : Atheneum, 1965.
A/II/5 The word on the Brazos: Negro preacher tales from the Brazos bottoms of Texas. By J. Mason Brewer. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [c1953].
Deck E The work of an ancient hand. By Curtis Harnack. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960.
B/II/5 The workers. By Audrey Lee. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1969].
A/IV/5 The works of Alexander Pushkin: lyrics, narrative poems, folk tales, plays, prose. By Alexander Pushkin. Selected and edited, with an introduction, by Abrahm Yarmolinsky. New York : Random House, [c1936].
B/II/5 The works of love. By Wright Morris. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
Deck E The world and William Walker. By Albert Z. Carr. New York : Harper & Row,1963.
B/VII/2 A world elsewhere: the place of style in American literature. By Richard Poirier. New York : Oxford University Press, 1966.
B/III/2 World enough and time: a romantic novel. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1950].
Deck E The world famous Harrity family. By Richard Harrity. New York : Trident Press, 1968.
Deck E The world of apples. By John Cheever. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
Deck E The world of Count Basie. By Stanley Dance. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.
Deck E The world of Eli Whitney. By Jeannette Mirsky and Allan Nevins. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1952.
B/I/3 The world of Faulkner. By Ward L. Miner. New York : Grove Press, [c1952].
B/IV/4 The world of fiction. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950.
B/III/4 The world of Odysseus. By M.I. Finley. New York : Meridian Books, [1959].
Deck E World of our fathers: The journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made. By Irving Howe. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Deck E The world of Swing. By Stanley Dance. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974.
B/V/3 A world on the wane. By Claude Levi-Strauss. Translated by John Russell. New York : Criterion Books, [c1961].
Deck E The world we imagine: Selected essays by Mark Schorer. By Mark Schorer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Deck E World within: Fiction Illuminating neuroses of our time. Edited by Mary Louise Aswell. Introduction and analyses by Frederic Wertham, M.D. New York : Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947.
Deck E The world's body: Foundations for literary criticism. By John Crowe Ransom. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
A/II/1 Worlds in the making: probes for students of the future. Edited by Mary Jane Dunston and Patricia W. Garland. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, [c1970].
Deck E The wound and the bow: Seven studies in literature. By Edmund Wilson. Cambridge, MA : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
Deck E Woza Afrika! : An anthology of South African plays. Woza Afrika! : An anthology of South African plays.
A/V/1 The wretched of the earth. By Frantz Fanon. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Constance Farrington. New York : Grove Press, [1965, c.1963]. 1st printing.
Deck E Writer as independent spirit: Proceedings of the XXXIV international P.E.N. congress, June 12-June 18, 1966. New York : P.E.N. American Center, 1968.
Deck E Writer in a changing world: The trends in literature shown at the second American writers' congress. Edited by Henry Hart. New York : Equinox Cooperative Press, 1937.
A/IV/3 The writer in America. By Wallace Stegner. With notes by M. Hiramatsu. Knda, Japan : Kokuseido Press, [n.d.].
Deck E Writer in our world: A TriQuarterly symposium. Edited by Reginald Gibbons. Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
Deck E The writer in the South: Studies in a literary community. By Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 1972.
A/II/2 The writer's craft. Edited by John Hersey. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [c1974].
Deck E The writer's experience: Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. By Ralph Ellison and Karl Shapiro. Washington, DC : Library of Congress, 1964.
A/II/1 Writers and issues. Edited by Theodore Solotaroff. New York : Signet, [c1969].
Deck E Writers at work: The Paris Review Interviews, fourth series. Edited by George Plimpton. Introduced by Wilfrid Sheed. New York : The Viking Press, 1976.
B/VI/4 Writers at work: the Paris review interviews. Third Series. Introduced by Alfred Kazin. New York : Viking Press, [c1967].
B/VI/1 Writers at work: the Paris review interviews. Edited and with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. New York : Viking Press, 1958.
A/II/1 Writers at work: the Paris review interviews. Edited and with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. New York : Viking Press, [1963].
Deck E Writers in America: The four seasons of success. By Budd Schulberg. New York : Stein and Day, 1983.
A/II/2 Writers on artists. Edited by Daniel Halpern. San Francisco : North Point Press, 1988.
A/III/1 The wrong attitude: a bad boy at a good school. By Chandler A. Chapman. New York : J.P. Puttnam Sons, [c1940].
A/V/4 Wuthering Heights. By Emily Brontë. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1979].
Deck E Xaipe. By E.E. Cummings. Edited, with an afterword, by George James Firmage. New York : Liveright, 1979.
B/II/4 Yale French studies. Passion and the Intellect, or, Andre Malroux. No. 18, Winter, 1957. New Haven, CN : Yale University, 1957.
Deck E Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and his family. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1944.
Deck E Yates Paul, his grand flights, his tootings. By James Baker Hall. Cleveland, OH : The World Publishing Company, 1963.
A/VI/5 Yazoo: integration in a deep-southern town. By Willie Morris. New York : A Harper's Magazine Press Book published in association with Harper and Row., [c1975].
A/III/5 The year 2000: a framework for speculation on the next thirty-three years. By Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Weiner. Introduction by Daniel Bell. New York : MacMillan, Co, [c1967].
B/IV/4 The year of decision. By Bernard DeVoto. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1943.
A/V/4 The yearling. By Marjorie Kinnan Taelings. Franklin Center, PA : Franklin Library, [c1983].
B/VI/3 "Yellow Kid" Weil: the autobiography of America’s master swindler. As told to W.T. By Joseph Weil. Brannon. Published in Chicago : Ziff-Davis Publishing, [c1948].
Deck E The yogi and the commissar and other essays. By Arthur Koestler. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1946.
A/VI/5 You can't get lost in Cape Town. By Zoe Wicomb. New York : Pantheon Books, [c1987].
A/IV/4 You, emperors, and others: poems, 1957-1960. By Robert Penn Warren. New York : Random House, [c1960].
A/III/5 Young American writers: fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Funk and Wagnells, [c1967].
A/VI/2 Zero. No.2, 1949. Summer issue. Edited by Albert Benveniste and Themistocles Hoetis. Tangier : Zero Press, 1949.
X/X/X Miscellaneous : Baldwin, James. Photocopy of James Baldwin v. Stationery with Outlined Hand and Signature.
A/VII/3 Miscellaneous : Certificate of life membership. "This certifies that Ralph Ellison is a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)... December, 1973."
A/VIII/4 Miscellaneous : Flute. Owned by Ellison.
A/VIII/5 Miscellaneous : National Book Award. For the most distinguished book of fiction in 1952. Awarded to Ralph Ellison.
CONSULT Reference Staff Journals, 1937-1992
Serials and journals owned by Ralph Ellison.
Arranged alphabetically and by date.
50° Congresso Mondale. P.E.N. Club International. Lugano, 10-17maggio 1987. Writers and Border Literature.
Paperback.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Records of the Academy 1963-1964. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Annotation on front cover states, “Notice of my election here.” [1964]. Writers and Border Literature.
Paperback.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Records of the Academy 1977-1978. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [1977]. Writers and Border Literature.
Paperback.
American Scholar: A quarterly for the independent thinker. Volume 35, Number 2. Washington, D.C.: United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, Printed by The William Byrd Press, Inc., 1966. Spring, 1966. Writers and Border Literature.
Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
Beloit Poetry Journal. Chapbook number 1. Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1951.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by Langston Hughes inside front cover. Paperback.
Bennington Review. Volume III, Number 1. Winter, 1969. Bennington, VT: Bennington College, 1969.
Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
Black Photographers Annual. Volume 3. Foreword by Gordon Parks. Introduction by James Baldwin. Brooklyn, NY: Black Photographers Annual, Inc., 1975.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Hardcover.
Brown, Sterling A. Negro poetry and drama. Bronze Booklet Number 7. Washington, D.C.: The Associates in Negro Folk Education, Annotated throughout. 1937.
Signed by Ellison on title page. Paperback.
Callaloo. Volume 11, Number 3. Summer, 1988. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Annotated on front cover and on title page. Paperback
Callaloo. Volume 18, Number 2. Spring, 1995. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955.
Annotated on front cover. Paperback.
Callaloo #25. Volume 8, Number 3. Fall, 1985. Recent essays from Europe: A special issue. Charlottesville, VA : Department of English, University of Virginia, 1985.
Annotated on front cover. Paperback.
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. Volume 2, Number 2. Fall-Winter, 1990. New York: Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, 1990.
Laid-in letter from Barrie Stavis to Ralph and Fanny Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Inscribed to Ralph by Barrie Stavis on title page. Paperback.
Beloit Poetry Journal. Chapbook number 1. Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1951.
Inscribed to Ralph and Fanny by Langston Hughes inside front cover. Paperback.
Chandler, Raymond. The finger man and other stories. Murder Mystery Monthly. Number 43. New York: Avon Publications, Paperback.1946.
Heavily annotated on title page with some light annotation throughout.
Chisholm, G.B. The psychiatry of enduring peace and social progress. The William Alanson White Memorial Lectures. Second Series. Foreword by Abe Fortas. Discussion by Henry A. Wallace, Watson B. Miller, Samuel W. Hamilton, et al. Baltimore, MD: The William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, Inc., 1946.
Paperback.
Classic Johannesburg Quarterly. Volume 1, Number 1. 1963. Editor: Nathaniel Nakasa. Johannesburg: The Classic Magazine Trust Fund, 1963.
Laid-in photocopy of letter from editor to Ellison removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback
Confluence: An international forum. Volume 3, Number 1. March, 1954. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1954.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
Confluence: An international forum. Volume 3, Number 4. December, 1954. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1954.
Laid-in letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
Confluence: An international forum. Volume 4, Number 1. April, 1955. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1955.
Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
Confluence: An international forum. Volume 4, Number 2. July, 1955. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1955.
Laid-in photocopy of letter removed and housed separately; filed immediately adjacent to this volume. Paperback.
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