Between the Covers

Softcover. First separate edition. Offprint. 10pp. (paginated p.109-119). Stapled self-wrappers. Horizontal crease else about fine. The first published appearance of any part of Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Middle Passage*, from the literary magazine *Callaloo* which published this first chapter when the book's tentative title was *Rutherford's Travels*. From the library of Johnson's close friend, the author Nicholas Delbanco. These offprints were usually prepared in very limited numbers for the use of the author. While *OCLC* locates the article in the magazine, it makes no mention of this offprint.

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