Midnight's Children.
$2,365 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1981. I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time First edition, signed by the author on the title page. Rushdie's breakthrough novel won the James Tait Black Memorial and Booker prizes in the year of publication. It was also twice named as the best-ever recipient of the Booker Prize, winning the 1993 "Booker of Bookers" and the 2008 "Best of the Booker". The US edition precedes the UK edition, which was made up from the American sheets. Octavo. Original grey boards, purple cloth backstrip lettered in silver, front cover with author's initials stamped in silver, rear cover with publisher's device in blind, fore edge uncut. With dust jacket. Extremities gently toned, corners a little bumped, foxing to edges; jacket unclipped, spine toned, a handful of nicks to extremities: a very good copy in like jacket.
- Year: 1981
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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