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Doubleday, August 2016. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable/Good. Boards have shelf wear. Dust jacket has shelf wear.

Doubleday, 2016-08-02. First edition ninth printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned with an Oprah Book Club label on front panel in a mylar cover.

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 306 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. Light bump at heel of spine.

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood — where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

Clean, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Spine solid with slight lean. Dust jacket clean with no rips or creases. Not a remainder.

Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

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New York: Doubleday , 2016. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The author's National Book and Pulitzer Prize winning book. First Edition stated with full number line 1-10. In black boards, cream spine and black type. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding. Light wear to spine ends. Jacket is unclipped with some light edgewear at spine ends and corners and short tear at heel of spine. Oprah's Book Club sticker to front panel.

New York: Doubleday & Co Inc, 2016. New. First Edition, 13th printing. National Book Award Winner. Very little shelfwear. The dust jacket is in new mylar.. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction.