Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie, First Edition (81 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. Published in 1980 by Penguin Books. First Edition, First Printing "Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem is celebrated in the press & welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other "midnight's children"--all born in the initial hour of India's independence--& an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive. Ebullient, operatic, comic, & serious, this novel is a wild, astonishing evocation of the maturity of a vast & complicated land & its people--a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy, Indian-style." Book is in Very Good condition. Slight rubbing & edgewear on the covers. NO spine creases! Interior is in Very Good condition. Pages are bright and clean with a bit of browning at the margins. Your purchase supports a small business. We want you to love your book so customer service is important to us! All orders come with a FREE bookmark! Shop my Abebooks store and save on shipping!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. Everyman's Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 632 pages; 1995 Alfred A. Knopf / Everyman's Library. HC/DJ 1st Everyman's printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $20 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner's small circular ownership stamp to front flyleaf; otherwise clean and unmarked. Mild toning to page block edges; superficial shelf evidence to jacket edges and surfaces. VG+/VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Number 217 in the Everyman's Library series. Introduction by Anita Desai. First edition thus. One bumped corner, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Serbian edition. 1st edition. Text in Serbian. Minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - no dust jacket - ex-library whose evidence is envelop and label inside front cover - label on title page and inside back cover - tape residue on cover - wear to cover - some staining to closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Bard Printing stated with full number line 10-1. The first US mass market edition. Square with minimal creasing to spine, edgewear and price partially inked out in three places. Text block tanned. Binding solid. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. SIGNED by SALMAN RUSHDIE directly on the title page (signature only, not inscribed to anyone); first Everyman's Library edition, First Printing Thus; Hardcover with dust jacket; unread in As-New condition (no marks, not book-club ed, etc); comes with a Glossy Photo of the author at the signing event; ships securely in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK paperback edition VG, no inscriptions.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. * AS PICTURED * FIRST EDITION Thus (i.e. First Picador edition, 20th impression, 1982) Following the immense acclaim on its first publication in 1981, the very attractive paperback edition went to multiple impressions the following year, of which this copy is one. In pleasingly well-preserved condition, tight, bright and clean within and without, very light age-toning to pages, laminated wraps with minimal wear only (a slight crease/wrinkle to upper top corner), spine uncreased. VG+ FREE P&P IN UK. Non-UK buyers quoted Shipping charge prior to commitment (25% proceeds to the Motor Neurone Disease Association).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. This has a full number line. The covers and spine have light to moderate wear, there is very light soiling to the page edges and the pages are clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover in Slipcase. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket ( as Issued ). Bhushan, Anna (illustrator). First Thus. 2013 Third Folio Society printing. Illustrated by Anna Bhushan. A fine, bright, crisp copy ( no blemishes, no fading, no inscriptions ). Housed in an unfaded slipcase which shows one or two trivial marks. A nice book. Please note that this a heavy item and postage will be a little more than that quoted by ABE. Paypal accepted.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The fourth impression of Salman Rushdie's award winning novel, detailing India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. The fourth impression of the first edition, published in the same year as the first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Winner of the 1981 Man Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the novel sold over one million copies in the UK alone.'Midnight's Children' follows India's transition to independence from British colonial rule. The story is told from the point of view of Saleem Sinai, born at the moment Indian independence was achieved, and thus imbued with special powers.The novel combines magical realism with historical fiction. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, and to head of front wrap. Small area of fading towards tail of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. In original shrink-wrap. Unread. Printing unknown. Octavo. In slipcase. Clean and bright. 'As New'.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Signed by author on title page. In protective mylar cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. This copy has been signed by Salman Rushdie himself. A little wear to the white back page of the dust jacket. A little foxing within, particularly to the sides and ends. 704.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Softcover Edition; A Near Fine book in wraps, showing only mild foxing to the pages. SIGNED by the author to the title page. The "Story of the Production That Never Was"; this screenplay, written by Rushdie for a multi-episode series, never made it to the screen after four years of production; this edition of Rushdie's master work rarely found signed. Not remaindered and not ex-library; will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. Signed by Author(s).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Gray paper and maroon cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine and front cover. Red dust jacket with black and red lettering. Dated 1981 on title page. Dated 1980 on copyright page. Stated first American edition. $13.95 price on dust jacket flap. 446 pages. Good condition. Binding is tight and square. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Paper is rubbed at corners. A thin line of sunning along the head and foot of the covers. A tiny spot of white discoloration, near the spine, on the front cover. Page edges faintly foxed. Pages otherwise bright and clean throughout. No other marks or writing. Dust jacket has been wrapped in protective mylar cover. Spine is very faintly sunned. The smallest touch of rubbing to the front corners. Jacket has light overall toning. A streak of staining to the interior front flap- it is slightly darker than the page and bleeds through to the other side. Otherwise clean and free of marks. Overall good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN FINE DJ. NO REMAINDER MARK. hint of label on fep.laid in signature. Signed by Author(s).

First U.K. edition. Sharp, albeit touched up, copy of Rushdie's classic Booker Prize-winning second novel. 8vo, 446, [1]pp. Publisher's maroon cloth backed gray paper boards stamped in silver in illustrated jacket by Bill Botten. This copy presents as near fine, though it has likely been cleaned up. Some light toning and wear to edges of boards, inner jacket flap edges rubbed and with some residue. Endpapers neatly replaced.

Original Wraps - Single Claspe. Condition: About Fine. 1st Edition. In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Booker Prize, Cape issued softcover original reprints of the five books by Cape author's that won the prize. This copy of Midnight's Children, about fine in original wraps for this edition, with typical toning to the page edges, is SIGNED by Rushdie on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Light edge-wear, the jacket price-clipped and spine-faded, the rear panel lightly rubbed; the book with a little sunning along the top edge, else clean, tight and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 446 pp quarter burgundy cloth with silver title, grey paper to sides with silver S.R. Top and bottom edges to covers tanned and slightly shelf rubbed, water stain to foot of spine with small hole to cloth, bottom margin of front cover water marked, dust wrapper has corresponding stain with the typical sunning to spine and top margins, a little shelf wear to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST EDITION TOP FRONT OF DJ. SIGNED ON TIPPED IN BOOKPLATE. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Some fading to jacket spine. A nice, solid copy. ; 8vo; 446 pages.

First edition, first printing of the Booker Prize winning novel. Printed by Jonathan Cape but using American sheets and boards. Very good but marked boards in very good price clipped and ill fitting and thus very scarce first state dustjacket with the usual fading to the spine. (I believe the first batch of dustjackets were slightly too small for the American imports and were replaced). The book was previously the property of a BBC journalist, so the book was probably a review copy, hence the first state dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in blue boards with bright gold gilt lettering on the spine The dust jacket has NO FADING (rare thus) as seen in the photos.Now in a Brodart. SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY SALMAN RUSHDIE ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is the first edition, second reprint in 1981. It is a tight, clean copy with NO prior owner's name or markings of any kind. Signed by Author(s).