Bedside Guardian, Signed (4 results)

Condition: Very Good. 2018. First Edition. 302 pages. Signed by the author. Blue pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Flat signed by Author. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal rub wear and creasing. Unclipped jacket is clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal rub wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Jacket show light edgewear and minor soiling. Inscribed "For my very dear Sally from (I hope) her very dear Fryn, Christmas,1954." F. Tennyson Jesse (Fryn) has a very short piece (Bedbookery) included in the collection. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 255 pages; Signed by One Author.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Original Dustjacket Artwork. Kenneth Farnhill (illustrator). First Edition Artwork. The finished artwork by Kenneth Farnhill for the first edition d/w of this book, image 6.6" x 8.2", in gouache on art card, SIGNED by the artist, with Collins' printer's pink instruction sheet on the verso. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Neu. 1. Auflage. 1. Grimus - London: Gollancz, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Book is fine except for a small mark across fore edge and an ink spot on lower paste down. Dustwrapper with minimal rubbing along spine ends. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid in is a review slip. 2. Midnight's Children - London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Boards marked, slight spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise a very good copy in a near fine dustwrapper with only the slightest hint of fading on the spine. Signed on the title page. 3. Shame - London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, signed by the author upon publication. 4. The Jaguar Smile - London: Pan Books/Picador, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers with some minor creases and rubbing, else fine with the usual paper browning. Signed by the author on the title page. 5. The Satanic Verses - No Place: Privately Printed, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. As New. A ring-bound photocopy of the fair copy of the author s typescript showing the final but very substantial holograph revisions and corrections in the author's hand on more than 100 pages. The front board depicting an exclusive alternative proof design for the dustwrapper, which differs from the one used on the proof copies and the regular editions. Copy V (in red) of the ten copies numbered I to X. Fine as issued and much more telling than any proof copy and as close to manuscript material as we will ever get.) 6. Is Nothing Sacred? - London: Granta, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. The Herbert Read Memorial Lecture 6 February 1990. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page on publication. 7. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - London: Granta Books, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Number 189 of 251 copies printed on Clan Book Wove and bound in calfskin leather, signed and numbered by the author. Fine as issued. 8. Imaginary Homelands - London: Granta Books, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Book and dustwrapper fine. Signed by the author on the title page upon publication. His essays and criticism 1981-1991. Contains his rare declaration "Why I Have Embraced Islam" dropped from later editions. 9. "The Bedside Guardian 35". A very good copy of the Proof, privately published in 1991. Very rare. 10. "The Wizard of Oz" - London: BFI Film Classics, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the half title upon publication. 11. East, West - London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Book and dustwrapper fine. Signed and dated ("6.10.94") by the author on the title page upon publication. 12. The Moor's Last Sigh - London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Proof Copy. Wrappers with a small scratch on the front, else as new. A very low No. 36 in a limited edition of 1000 and signed by the author on the title page upon publication. 12. The Moor's Last Sigh - London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers with a small scratch on the front, else book is as new. A low No. 36 in a limited edition of 1000 and signed by the author on the title page upon publication. 13. The Ground Beneath her Feet - London: Jonathan Cape, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Leather bound book and slipcase are as new. No. 43 in a limited edition, signed and numbered by the author on the title page. 14. The Screenplay of Midnight's Children - London: Vintage, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. There was no hardcover edition. Signed by Rushdie on the title page. As new. 15. Fury - London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Book and Dustwrapper fine. Signed by the author. 16. The Enchantress of Florence - London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Number 5 of 100 copies signed by Rushdie. Fine in fine original slip case. Please note that we will have to add additional shipping costs to this collection, particularly to the USA. Signatur des Verfassers.