Signed by author on the front fly leaf. First Edition/1st Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Book has rubbing to the lower spine end. Upper and lower spine ends are pushed in. Dust jacket has a bit of dark discoloration at the upper spine end. No remainder mark, notes, underlining or highlighting. Book will be well padded in bubble wrap and shipped in a sturdy box. p4
Signed by author on the front fly leaf. First Edition/1st Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Book has rubbing to the lower spine end. Upper and lower spine ends are pushed in. Dust jacket has a bit of dark discoloration at the upper spine end. No remainder mark, notes, underlining or highlighting. Book will be well padded in bubble wrap and shipped in a sturdy box. p4
First Edition, First Printing with full number line and $26.95 price intact. A NEAR FINE copy with minor soiling to outer text block in a VERY GOOD dust jacket with gold 'signed copy' sticker affixed to front panel, light edgewear, small chip to top of front fold and sun-fading of spine and on front panel above the author's name. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction.
1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Whitehead on the title page with a black pen. Black paper boards with off-white cloth binding, off-white endpapers and black titles. The book sits squarely with sharp corners. Crown of spine softened. Several shallow indentations in the surface of the binding, just below the top edge. The jacket is unaffected. Ghost of pencil erasure at top edge of ffep. The jacket is bright, crisp, price intact and a plastic Oprah Book Club sticker is affixed to the front panel. Minor wear to the surface of the red section of the jacket at the extremities. Also available from this bookseller is the Canadian first printing of Crook Manifesto which is signed and dated in the year of publication (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2023).
Signed later printing, Doubleday hardcover w/ DJ, 2016. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG, in protective mylar, but w/ a bit of scuffing at corners and along front fold. Signed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
New York:: Doubleday,, (2016). SIGNED hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Later printing. Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "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." SIGNED by the author directly on the title page. 306 pp.
Ninth printing. Signed by the author on the title page: "Colson Whitehead." Among the awards Whitehead won for this bestseller are the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, head of spine lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $26.95); edgewear at head of spine; an "Autographed Copy" sticker and an "Oprah's Book Club" sticker on the front panel; Brodart protected.
Simply signed on a tipped in page by Colson Whitehead. Number line begins with a 2. No Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award banner on cover. ; Pulitzer Prize Winner; 9.10 X 6 X 1.40 inches; 320 pages; Signed by Author
Simply signed on the title page by Colson Whitehead. No Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award banner on cover. ; 9.10 X 6 X 1.40 inches; 320 pages; Signed by Author
The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead. First Edition, First Printing. Doubleday Publishing, 2016. Signed by author, original Dust Jacket, 306 pp, 9.5 x 6.25", 8vo. In fair condition. DJ exhibits water dampness staining & rubbing/scuffing on rear hinge & rear flap. DJ's bottom edge of front cover is scuffed with a small tear. DJ is otherwise clean and bright. Both bottom corners of boards are bumped. Head and tail of spine collapsed. Bottom corner of front paste-down exhibits water dampness staining. Fore-edge of front end-page & half-title page exhibits water dampness stain. Author's signature found on title page in marker. Remainder of text-block clean. No known previous ownership or marginalia. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. - Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. 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.
Inscribed copy of the 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead that became a publishing sensation, winning both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Whitehead's sixth novel, this is an allegorical story about the harrowing journey of slave named Cora who escaped a Georgia plantation via an actual underground train. Inscription to recipient on title page; later printing. 306 pages. 9.5" x 6.5". Near fine copy with slight bowing of rear board. Near fine unclipped ($26.95) dust jacket with trace edgewear.
Doubleday, New York, 2016. Hardcover. Book and dust jacket condition: new. A new, unread copy. Only flaw is small crimp to top of binding and dust jacket. This is the first edition, 7th printing. Signed on the title page by Colson Whitehead. No inscription, just his signature in black ink "Colson Whitehead." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This book is only available for sale to customers in the United States. No shipping outside the United States.
Doubleday. New York. 2016. Black paper boards with spine wrapped in cream-colored cloth; black lettering to spine. Fine First Edition (stated), first printing with requisite number line ending in 1. No stickers on front of this book, signed by the author on the title page; not the tipped in page from the publisher. Fine unclipped ($26.95) jacket is protected with a removable mylar cover. As the Underground RR was the winner of the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer Prize, Mr. Whitehead is one of only four authors to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in fiction two times (The Nickel Boys, PP 2020). The others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner and John Updike. Follow Cora, a slave at a Georgia plantation, as she follows the underground railroad in this award winning work of historical fiction. 6.25x9.5 in. 306 pg.
1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Whitehead with a black pen. This copy was signed by the author on the title page at an event - it is not signed on a tipped-in page. Black paper boards with off-white cloth binding, off-white endpapers and black titles. The book sits squarely with sharp corners. A tight copy with sharp corners and spine ends and no markings by a previous owner or retailer. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact and bears no stickers. Also available from this bookseller are autographed 1st printings of the Canadian and British hardcover editions of Crook Manifesto.
Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/near fine. Photos. Tiny rubs on the corners, otherwise excellent. There is an Oprah's Book Club sticker on the front of the dust jacket. The author has signed on a Doubleday bookplate on the half title page (no inscription).
signed by author on title page; inscribed as follows: "To Marie best wishes!" first edition 22nd printing; book comes with a bookmark from the Savannah Book Festival on Feb. 17, 2017 where the book was signed; a young slave's adventures in a desperate bid for freedom
Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, mylar protected. No Oprah Book Club logo on jacket. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Signed by Author on title page.
Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Light edge wear to DJ. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
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