First Day Cover
Sc.
4866 Ralph Ellison on a 5”x7” showing the first edition of Ellison’s
“Invisible Man” plus a Harlem street in 1939. Sc. 4386 Richard Wright
and 861 Ralph Waldo Emerson are tied by the First Day of Issue hand
cancel. Wright was a friend and colleague. Ralph Waldo Ellison was
named after the poet. Great for a black history-, literature or
authors-on-stamps collection!