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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine and front panel dustjacket; [x],[4]-275,[2]pp. Previous owner's ink name to front endpaper, else a clean, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $18.95), with light wear to extremities; Near Fine.

The Nobel Prize-winning author's fifth book, a novel set in post-Civil War Ohio and centered on the lives of an escaped slave family. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and voted by a New York Times poll in 2006 as the best work of fiction published in the last 25 years. 85463. (Inventory #: (truncated) 85463)