New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Pulitzer Prize winning Author Colson Whitehead in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. New (Pristine Condition) in a New (Pristine Condition) dust jacket (No Oprah Book Club Sticker). A very tight, unread copy, opened only for signing. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line beginning with a 1. Signed and dated on the Title page, by multi award winning Author Colson Whitehead, in person, during his book tour event for "The Underground Railroad" in New York City on October 26, 2016. A photo of Colson during the event, and an event flyer will be included. "The Underground Railroad" is a historical fiction, alternate history novel that tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the nineteenth century. who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts primarily as a rail transport system, in addition to a series of safe houses and secret routes. "The Underground Railroad" won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, as well as winning the 2017 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and winning the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was longlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. Rest assured, this multi award winning, collectible novel is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.