Boulder, CO: Fiction Collective, 1994. First edition - The author's first published work of fiction - winner of the 1994 Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award. Praise from Charles Johnson and Nikki Giovanni. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-932511899.

Boulder, CO: Fiction Collective, 1994. SIGNED first edition - The author's first published work of fiction - winner of the 1994 Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award. Praise from Charles Johnson and Nikki Giovanni. SIGNED by author on title page and dated 4/22/95. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-932511899.

New York: Avon, 1999. Romantic novel by this African American mystery writer.

New York: Morrow, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel by this African American mystery writer. ISBN: 0-06-0188839.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. A novel - the first in 26 years - by one of the last surviving writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ISBN: 0-385-471432.

New York: Doubleday, 1996. A novel - the first in 26 years - by one of the last surviving writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ISBN: 0-385-471440.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel - the first in 26 years - by one of the last surviving writers of the Harlem Renaissance. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471432.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories (including her first short story "The Typewriter" which took second prize in a writing contest when she was only 17) and autobiographical essays, selected and introduced by the author - the last living writer from the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Preface by Mary Helen Washington. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471459.

New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. Hardcover - West's first novel originally published in 1948. Although she was born in Boston, and lived most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, she worked in New York City during the Depression and is associated with the Harlem Renaissance, both through her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as editing the significant but short-lived quarterly literary journals - Challenge in 1934 and The New Challenge in 1937. New introduction by William H. Robinson. A title in "The American Negro, His History and Literature" series. A relatively early publication that called attention to West and surprisingly uncommon. 347 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, a story "driven by strong characters who aren't afraid to speak their minds." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-684-844915.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this civil rights activist and head of the NAACP for many years, the story of a woman who initially passes for white, then re-embraces her racial identity (In his autobiography, White said ""I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me." so he also could have easily passed for white; instead he used his appearance for undercover investigation of lynchings in the South.) 300 pp plus colophon and 3 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Highly praised debut novel. Although this can be simply described as a story of elevator inspectors, it has caused Whitehead to be compared to writers from Ralph Ellison to P. K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon. SIGNED on the title page.

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: 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.