American author who gained international fame and won the National Book Award for his first novel, Invisible Man. Typed excerpt, 8.5 x 11, from Invisible Man. Reads in part: “It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!” signed in dark green ink at the conclusion. In fine condition. R&R COA.
