The Underground Railroad Paperback - 2018

First edition identification

First edition published by Doubleday, New York, 2016. First editions, first printings have "First Edition" printed on the copyright page and a full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.  Boards are black with black lettering on a white cloth spine. Back of the Dust jacket has a bar code area centered on the bottom with ISBN 978-0-385-54236-4 above the larger bar code. The back of the dust jacket also features seven blurbs of praise for the Writing of Colson Whitehead by John Updike, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, The Miami Herald, People, The Washington Post, and USA Today. An unspecified amount of first editions have a signed tipped-in page preceding the title page.