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MIDDLE PASSAGE
by Johnson, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
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 black life in America.<br /> <br /> INSCRIBED and in SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy and unclipped bright dust jacket. No remainder marks.
Synopsis
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. His 1990 winner of the national Book Awards, Middle Passage , is a historical novel set in 1830. It is focused on the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship, the Republic. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, is desperate to escape his debt to a local gangster and his impending forced marriage to a prim schoolteacher. He sneaks onto a ship that is headed out to sea to capture members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. As the novel unfolds, Calhoun is trapped between three parties and thus begins a shocking voyage of horror, self-discovery and insurrection. A superbly written modern classic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8828
- Title
- MIDDLE PASSAGE
- Author
- Johnson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0689119682
- ISBN 13
- 9780689119682
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Africa, slaves, slave trade, money, America, ships, death, whipping, torture, South, women, rape, degradation, prison, plantations,
Terms of Sale
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Title Page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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