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NY: ATHENEUM.. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0689119682 . INSCRIBED by Charles Johnson on the title page. Original printed invitation to the book signing laid-in loosely. About fine in a like dj. (Hint of bumping at crest of spine on cloth & dj. Barely discernable crease at bottom edge of rear panel of dj.) National Book Award winner.; Signed by Author(s) .

NEW YORK NY: ATHENEUM. F/NF. PUB 1990. FIRST EDITION. ISBN: SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. D.J. IS FINE BUT FOR A PRODUCTION FLAW THAT HAS CAUSED A WRINKLE INTHE LAMINATE ON THE REAR PANEL. A VERY NICE COPY.. Keywords: AFRO-AMER AUTHOR, NOVEL, SIGNED, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1990 First edition, first printing; slightest rubbing and edgewear to dustjacket with $17.95 price intact; light foxing to top page edges and bookstore stamp on rear free endpaper; o/w NF/NF; signed bookplate by Charles Johnson loosely laid in. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1990. Clean text. Unread. Dust cover not price clipped. Touch of shelf wear. Marron boards, black spine, gold lettering. Beautiful copy of the authors National Book Award winning work. New mylar cover available on request. Signed via enclosed Typescript.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover w/ jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 209 pages. Review copy with laid in slip and publisher sheet. National Book Award winning novel about the slave trade. Despite Johnson's popularity with both critics and readers this book had a relatively small first printing. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some slight bumping to the spine ends and a slight lean to the spine and in a near fine dust jacket with the same slight bumping to the spine ends. Signed by Johnson on the title page.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. Hardcover. 209p., warm personal inscription to a fellow author, signed & dated 9/18/91 by the author, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright, price-clipped dust jacket. National Book Award winner.

First edition 1st printing, Fine apparently unread book, in a Near Fine jacket with light edge wear, mild rubbing both panels, fold along spine slightly offset toward front of book. This copy inscribed by Johnson – For Tom, with deepest thanks! – signed Charles Johnson and dated 3/29/98. This title was winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1990.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Mark Hess (dust jacket illustration). Pp. 209. Bound in black half-cloth over burgundy paper-covered boards, silver lettering stamped on spine, In the dust jacket with $17.95 price intact on the front flap. Signed by Charles Johnson on the title page, dated 2/7/91. The first printing of the first edition of the University of Washington professor's National Book Award-winning novel, presented here in a bright, fresh copy. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. 209 pp. First edition, first printing of the author's National Book Award winning novel about the 19th century slave trade. A fine copy in fine unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

NY: Atheneum, 1990. Bound in maroon cloth over red boards, stamped in gold. In illustrated dust jacket. The National Book Award winner in 1990. Signed and dated (in the year of publication) by Mr. Johnson. 209 pp. . Signed and Dated By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Picador / Pan Books, 1991-01-01. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Picador, 1991; First UK printing with full number line; flat-signed by Charles Johnson on title page. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket (£14.95) shows only very minor edge-wear. Winner of the 1990 National Book Award. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Atheneum, 1990. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Atheneum: New York, 1990. First printing with the full number line on the copyright page. Fine in a fine jacket. A signed card by Johnson is laid in.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over maroon boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: $17.95) depicting a black man's head by a [slave] ship, 209 pages. Winner of the 1990 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.<br /> <br /> Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle Passage. Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who sneaks aboard a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a forced marriage.<br /> <br /> Charles Richard Johnson (born 1948) is a scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation and that addres issues of… Read More

Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. A fine first edition, first printing (with complete number line) in jacket. Winner of the National Book Award.

NY: Atheneum. 1990. A novel of a slave ship by an African-American author, reportedly issued with a small first printing and marketed more as a "young adult" book than an "adult trade" title. When it won the National Book Award, it was reprinted a number of times in very short order. Signed by the author. Owner signature and stamp front flyleaf; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Penguin Group, 1991. First Plume Printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Clean, tight & attractive. . Sm 8vo; 209pg. white wraps; color illustration on front wrap; blue and black lettering on spinel; author photograph by Davis Freeman; cover design by Melissa Jacoby; acknowledgments included. Inscription from author on title page. A Plume Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume. Very Good. 1991. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0452266386 Signed By Author Used Signed & dated By Author VG in wraps 8vo 209pp .