Description
JOHNSON, Charles R. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. New York: Atheneum, 1986.
First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21 cm tall. 169 pages. ISBN: 0-689-11653-5. Publisher’s quarter black cloth over brown paper-covered boards; pink top edge stain. Copyright page states “FIRST EDITION” with no other printing indications present, conforming to the publisher’s convention for first printings. Dust jacket priced $9.95 on front flap (unclipped). Fine in a Fine- dust jacket. No previous owner markings or bookplates. Slight fading to dust jacket spine.
- Charles R. Johnson’s first short story collection and third work of fiction.
- A PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist (1987) that precedes Johnson’s National Book Award–winning breakthrough, Middle Passage (1990), as well as his later MacArthur Fellowship (1998).
