Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 232 pages. The fifth book from the 2001 Nobel Prize winner. Naipaul chose the title of this book, which refers to the voyages of ships carrying slaves from Africa to the New World in an effort to frame his trip to the Caribbean at the invitation of the Trinidad government. An about very good copy with some foxing to the page edges and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some tears, creases, wear and some foxing to the verso.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Publisher's full dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light blue topstain, map endpapers. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed on the bottom of the spine, and has a few small dust marks on the bottom edge of the rear cover only. AS NEW/ VERY GOOD+. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 232 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Naipaul, V. S.. The Middle Passage. Macmillan, New York, 1963.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Macmillan in 1963. Book fine, dust jacket bears a light trace of rubbing to the edges and light spotting to the white rear panel.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition, using the U.K. sheets. Octavo. 232 pages. Endpaper maps. Top corner of front cover bumped. Near fine in very good, slightly nicked and creased dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom