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UNDERGROUND AIRLINES.
by Winters, Ben H
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance copy and especially so signed.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Mulholland Books / Little Brown,, (2016). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance copy and especially so signed. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A thought-provoking novel by this award-winning writer that asks "What would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?" A young black manhas struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He's got plenty of work. In this alternate America, slavery continues in four states called 'the Hard Four.' On the trail of a runaway he arrives in Indianapolis and attempts to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, A book which is a ground-breaking novel, an imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we want to admit, this was named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, and more and winner of the 2016 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. 320 pp.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 87456
- Title
- UNDERGROUND AIRLINES.
- Author
- Winters, Ben H
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance copy and especially so signed.
- Publisher
- Mulholland Books / Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2016)
- Keywords
- science fiction, mystery,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Alternate history;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Ione, California
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Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
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- Wrappers
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- Fine
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