New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover - 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." 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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." Basis for the innovative and powerful Amazon series of the same name. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Doubleday, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age novel - the story of Benji Cooper, one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan, and of the summer in the Hamptons, at Sag Harbor, where a community of African American professionals have built a secluded world of their own. Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius" award, and the 2016 National Book Award for "Underground Railroad." This novel was a finalist for the Pen-Faulkner Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. 273 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0385527651.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover - 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. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Random House Large Print, (2016). Hardcover first edition - 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." Large print edition. 417 pp. ISBN: 978-1524736309.

New York: Doubleday, (2021.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "heists, shakes and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.," a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.' Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius" award, and the 2016 National Book Award for "Underground Railroad." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0385545136.

New York: Ballantine, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which explores - through a series of interviews with African American politicians, pundits, journalists, activists, entertainers, and educators - why African Americans have consistently been the most supportive segment of his constituency. INSCRIBED on the author on the title page. Includes a 20 page list of all the black appointees of the Clinton administration. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-345450329.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in plague-ridden, late 18th century Philadelphia, where a young black itinerant preacher is searching for an endangered African woman. Both a love story and a novel about racism, this was the winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Award for Historical Fiction. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-395785901.

New York: Henry Holt, (1989.). First edition - First collection of short stories by this African American writer. 161 pp. plus notes and preceded by 3 pp of description and reviews of Wideman's books.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's memoir of "discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitably, the story of the roots of black basketball in Ameica Ñ a story inextricable from race, culture, love, and home. " 242 pp. ISBN: 0-395-857317.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in plague-ridden, late 18th century Philadelphia, where a young black itinerant preacher is searching for an endangered African woman. Both a love story and a novel about racism, this was the winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Award for Historical Fiction. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-395785901.

New York: Vintage Books, (1995.). National Book Award finalist - a meditation on "fathers, color, roots, time and language.' 197 pp. ISBN: 0-679-737510.

New York: Avon, 1985. First edition - First combined edition of these three books by the winner of the 1984 Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction (for "Sent for You Yesterday" the 3rd book in this trilogy.) Includes a new introduction by Wideman. ISBN: 0-380-895641.

London: Allison & Busby, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 12 interrelated stories which traces the fortunes of an African American family from slavery to escape and resettlement in the North, and also follows the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. Oriignally published as a paperback original in the US, this is the first hardcover edition. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-85031-5492.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in Homewood; the hero is a small wizened old black man, living in a trailer cluttered with the detritus of his 60 years - but also the possessor of a fine legal mind, one which he uses to help those in Homewood who need his services, but can never afford to pay for them. ISBN: 0-8050-03754.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel and one of his most powerful - a book probes the frustration and anger of four very different black men living the low life in a big city who decide to lynch a white policeman as a symbolic gesture. To put this in context, it begins with 23 pages of "matter prefatory" with historical quotes, statistics and details on lynching. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-01182.

New York: Henry Holt, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Powerful novel about 'being black and male in the last quarter of the American Century' - based on the 1985 bombing by police of a row house owned by the Afrocentric cult, Move. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1991. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-12664.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 10 stories which explore issues of strength and faith, fate and belief by this award-winning author (among his many awards is the Rea Award for accomplishment in the short story form.) 170 pp. ISBN: 0-618515259.

New York: Pantheon, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - National Book Award finalist - a meditation on "fathers, color, roots, time and language.' Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York: Henry Holt, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel about 'being black and male in the last quarter of the American Century' - based on the 1985 bombing by police of a row house owned by the Afrocentric cult, Move. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1991. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-12664.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in Homewood; the hero is a small wizened old black man, living in a trailer cluttered with the detritus of his 60 years - but also the possessor of a fine legal mind, one which he uses to help those in Homewood who need his services, but can never afford to pay for them. ISBN: 0-8050-03754.

New York: Henry Holt, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this African American writer. 161 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-8050-11846.

New York: Avon, 1985. SIGNED first edition - First combined edition of these three books by the winner of the 1984 Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction (for "Sent for You Yesterday" the 3rd book in this trilogy.) - a trade paperback original. Includes a new introduction by Wideman. This copy is INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-380-895641.

New York: Avon, 1985. First edition - First combined edition of these three books by the winner of the 1984 Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction (for "Sent for You Yesterday" the 3rd book in this trilogy.) Includes a new introduction by Wideman. Surprisingly uncommon. ISBN: 0-380-895641.

New York: Pantheon, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects all of his stories to date, including 10 new stories written especially for his volume. 432 pages. ISBN: 0-679-407197.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - On the one hand this is a very personal memoir about his love for basketball and the role it has played in his life, but it is also an exploration of the roots of black basketball in America and its significance to black life. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-395-857317.

New York: Henry Holt, (1986.). His third novel and one of his most powerful - a book probes the frustration and anger of four very different black men living the low life in a big city who decide to lynch a white policeman as a symbolic gesture. Originally published in 1973. ISBN: 0-8050-01182.

London: Allison & Busby - Flamingo, (1984.). The second novel in the Homewood Trilogy. ISBN: 0-00-6541518.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in Homewood; the hero is a small wizened old black man, living in a trailer cluttered with the detritus of his 60 years - but also the possessor of a fine legal mind, one which he uses to help those in Homewood who need his services, but can never afford to pay for them. ISBN: 0-8050-03754.

New York: Henry Holt, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel about 'being black and male in the last quarter of the American Century' - based on the 1985 bombing by police of a row house owned by the Afrocentric cult, Move. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1991. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-12664.