Midnight’s Children.
$2,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First British edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Charles- Salman Rushdie." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Botten. A very sharp example. Midnight s Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the country s first hour of independence on August 15, 1947. An extraordinary novel. One of the most important to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation (Robert Towers, The New York Times Book Review). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- Year: 1981
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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