
The Shipping News book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. The pictorial wraps of the advance excerpt is very similar to what became the first edition dust jacket.


Many, but not all, were signed by the author. It was a thin 45 page softcover book containing only the first four chapters of the novel. Reviews are by Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, Providence Journal-Bulletin, Vermont Sunday Magazine, and The Washington Times.Ī promotional advance excerpt of the first edition was published 8 months prior to the first edition. Back of dust jacket has 7 reviews for the author's first book, Postcards. Boards are gray (sometimes described as light blue) with black lettering on a light green cloth spine (sometimes described as aqua or turquoise).

Copyright page has number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
