New York, NY: N.Y. / New York: Modern Library / The Random House Publishing Group, Date: 2010, 1st Edition, FirstPrinting, 2010. -----------hardcover, a Fine example with a wee bit of very light rubbing, in a Fine dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, likely an unread copy, no writing in the book, includes the eight excerpts that were previously published (predominately in literary journals ) -Three Days Before the Shooting: The Unfinished Second Novel -by Ralph Ellison / Modern Library (includes: And Hicman Arrives; The Roof the Steeple and the People; It Always Breaks Out; Juneteenth; Night-Talk; A Song of Innocence; Cadillac Flambe; Backwacking, a Plea to the Senator ---also includes a Chronology, some early drafts, notes, copious editor's notes, etc. ---"At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind several thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s epic work in progress. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . gathers in one volume all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of a controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator who’s being tended to by an elderly black jazz musician turned preacher. Presented in their unexpurgated, ...

ISBN10: 0375759530, ISBN13: 9780375759536, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, United States] Hardcover
[Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]

NY: Modern Library, Date: 2010. (USA) 1st printing of the first edition, No markings, Fine as New in unclipped Fine as New dust jacket. Boards, 1101pp. From the jacket: At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who’s being tended to by “Daddy” Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the narrative sequences form a deeply poetic, moving, and profoundly entertaining book, brimming with humor and tension, composed in Ellison’s magical jazz-inspired prose style and marked by his incomparable ear for vernacular speech. A heavy book. (4.0 JM HOZ 401/4. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 2010. Modern Library ISBN 0375759530 9780375759536 [CA]

ISBN10: 0375759530, ISBN13: 9780375759536, [publisher: Modern Library, NY] Hardcover First Edition (USA) 1st printing of the first edition, No markings, Fine as New in unclipped Fine as New dust jacket. Boards, 1101pp. From the jacket: At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who’s being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the narrative sequences form a deeply poetic, moving, and profoundly entertaining book, brimming with humor and tension, composed in Ellison’s magical jazz-inspired prose style and marked by his incomparable ear for vernacular speech. A heavy book. (4.0 JM HOZ 401/4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
[Burnaby, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2010]

Modern Library 2010 1st Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket First Printing. Stated First Edition with full number line starting with 1. Unclipped DJ in archival cover.

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[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]

ISBN10: 0375759530, ISBN13: 9780375759536, [publisher: Modern Library] Hardcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]