The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

$2,183 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

First American Edition, First Printing. Signed. Unclipped, Fine dust jacket. Very minor bumping on upper front board tip. Provenance includes program from a lecture at Eastern Connecticut University in 2011. Tight and square, a stunning copy of Rushdie's most controversial work, for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. Rushdie: "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."

• Publisher: Viking
• Year: 1988
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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