Middle Passage.    New York: Atheneum, 1990.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page: “For Patrick,/with my Thanks!/Charles/Johnson-”

Small octavo. [xii], 1-209, [3, blank] pp. Publisher’s black cloth backstrip over burgundy paper boards. Front cover lettered in blind, spine and rear cover lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Mild rubbing, else bright and fine.

This 1990 National Book Award winner takes place on an illegal American slave vessel in the 1830’s. The main character, a freed slave named Rutherford Calhoun, stows away on the ship to escape a forced marriage in New Orleans, and the story concerns his adventures and maturing during the difficult voyage.

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