Midnight's Children.
$3,078 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
London: Jonathan Cape,, 1981. The literary map of India is about to be redrawn First edition, UK issue, 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 (est. 1969), winning the 1993 Booker of Bookers and the 2008 Best of the Booker. The UK issue is taken from the American sheets, which were issued in New York earlier the same year. Octavo. Original red quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey board sides stamped on front with author's initials in silver, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue cloth box. Spine ends bumped, cloth a little rubbed, board edges toned, a little foxing to edges and endpapers; jacket unclipped, spine lightly sunned: a very good copy in near-fine jacket.
- Year: 1981
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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