Midnights Children Novel by Rushdie Salman, Signed (2 results)

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.

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.