Midnights Children Novel by Rushdie Salman, First Edition (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John Blanche (Cover design and inserted page) (illustrator). First Edition. First and only printing of the true first edition of the third Granta (New Series) - complete with the John Blanche illustration with OUP advert on the reverse inserted at page 108 - the illustration repeated on the front cover. A very rare first edition of the third issue of the reborn Granta, champion of new writing, which grew to be one of the best known, most widely read and longest enduring of modern day literary magazines. Includes two chapters from Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" (the only pre-publication of any part of that book). ***Very good in mustard-yellow black printed thin card covers, with the matt surface very slightly rubbed and discoloured. Slight off-setting from a price label which appears to have been removed from the front cover. Edges of covers slightly rubbed. No serious creases or tears. Light reading creases to the spine. Spine slightly rolled from reading but spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. Top corners of last few pages very slightly creased, otherwise no creases or tears. ***216 pages including notes on contributors at the back of the magazine. 210mm x 146mm. ******Contents: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (first part); Angela Carter: Cousins; Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds; Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys; Emma Tennant: Alice fell; Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker; J.K. Klavans: God, He Was Good. ***With a section titled "A Symposium on the British Novel, with contributions by: Lorna Sage, Chris Bigsby, Frederick Bowers, James Gindin and Christine Brooke-Rose. ***The first and only printing of Granta 3 (New Series) containing the two chapters "The Perforated Sheet" (p. 17-32) and "Mercurochrome" (p. 32-46) which are the earliest publication of parts of Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" to appear in any form, along with Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker". Copies of the first three issues of Granta are very hard to come by now, especially in collectable condition. Grantas 1,2 and 3 are now almost always seen only as reprints with a new cover, with a design which became the Granta house style for all issues subsequent to this one. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. John Blanche (Cover design and inserted page) (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition of the third Granta (New Series) - complete with the John Blanche illustration with OUP advert on the reverse inserted at page 108 - the illustration repeated on the front cover. ***Near fine in mustard-yellow black printed thin card covers, with the matt surface very slightly rubbed and discoloured. Edges of covers just very slightly rubbed. No creases or tears - just the lightest of reading creases to the spine. No spine lean. Spine straight and tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. A few top corners (p.89-96) just very lightly creased. No tears. ***216 pages including notes on contributors to rear. 210mm x 14 mm. ***Contents: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (first part); Angela Carter: Cousins; Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds; Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys; Emma Tennant: Alice fell; Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker; J.K. Klavans: God, He Was Good. ***With a section titled "A Symposium on the British Novel, with contributions by: Lorna Sage, Chris Bigsby, Frederick Bowers, James Gindin and Christine Brooke-Rose. ***The first and only printing of Granta 3 (New Series) containing the two chapters "The Perforated Sheet" (p. 17 - 32) and "Mercurochrome" (p. 32 - 46) which are the earliest publication of parts of Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" to appear in any form, along with Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker". Copies of the first three issues of Granta are very hard to come by now, especially in such collectable condition. Copies of the first three issues of Granta are very hard to come by now, especially in collectable condition. Grantas 1,2 and 3 are now almost always seen only as reprints with a new cover, with a design which became the Granta house style for all issues subsequent to this one. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very rare first edition of the third issue of the reborn Granta, champion of new writing, which grew to be one of the best known, most widely read and longest enduring of a notoriously ephemeral species, the literary magazine. Includes two chapters from Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (the only pre-publication of any part of that book). Grantas 1,2 and 3 are now almost always seen only as reprints with a new cover, in a design which became the Granta house style for all issues subsequent to this one. Other writers who were or later became well known, contributed to Granta 3 (though none of them were as celebrated or controversial as Rushdie) included Angela Carter, Alan Sillitoe, Russell Hoban, Emma Tenant and Lorna Sage. This copy of Granta 3 is quite well preserved despite its 42 years. However, the ochre paper wrap is a little tarnished in places; there is a tiny tear at the bottom of the front cover where it meets the spine and there is a previous resale price written in pencil on the first inside page. See five photos of this magazine and do ask for more if that would help.

Softcover. Condition: Wie neu. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers very slightly rubbed on the bottom of the front wrapper, else near fine. Signed by Rushdie on the first page of his contribution. The two chapters "The Perforated Sheet" (pages 17 to 32) and "Mercurochrome" (pages 32 to 46) are the earliest and only publications of parts of his novel Midnight's Children in any form. CHF 350. This item is part of our Catalogue 4: The Rushdie Collection, which you can download at ygrbooks. Signatur des Verfassers.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 gray paper over burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 446pp, [2]. Small, rough erasure to front endpaper, board edges gently sunned, with light foxing to top edge; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $13.95), with the spine and front panel evenly faded to pink; but for the fading, Near Fine. The author's second novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1981, and subsequently awarded the "Booker of Booker's" prize in 1993, at the commemoration of the award's 25th anniversary.

Attractively bound in burgundy cloth spine and gray paper-covered boards.Very clean and tight throughout. Signed "Salman Rushdie"on the title page. In a complete and striking dust jacket with some light dampstaining along the bottom edges of the rear panel. Overall, an attractive copy, signed. Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. Midnight's Children sold over one million copies in the UK alone and won the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.[1] It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.[2][3][4][5] In 2003 the novel appeared at number 100 on the BBC's The Big Read poll which determined the UK's "best-loved novels" of all time. (Wikipedia) First Edition with "First American Edition" stated on the copyright page.