Ralph Ellison
Juneteenth: A Novel.
The Modern Library, 2000. First printing. Edited by John F. Callahan, with a preface by Charles Johnson. 9780593242100 xxxix/344 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in quarter beige cloth and light gray paper-covered boards, with stamped black lettering to spine. Small red dot appears on bottom edge of text block. Book is otherwise like new. Dust jacket, with price of $25 on front flap, is like new, preserved in mylar cover. 
"The story follows Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he calls for Alonzo Hickman, an old Black minister, to be by his side as he faces a mortal wound. As the two men intimately share their stories and memories, the true shape and substance of the past begin to emerge. 
Here is Ellison, a virtuoso of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at the height of his powers, telling a moving, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. 
With an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson."