NMLP P-004530 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Middle Passage

Charles Johnson · Atheneum · 1990

The US Atheneum hardcover of 1990 is the true first edition. It won the 1990 National Book Award for Fiction and had a comparatively small first printing.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-004530 for "Middle Passage" by Charles Johnson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004530, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).