Midnight’s Children.

"WE ALL OWE DEATH A LIFE": FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S MASTERPIECE MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN; SIGNED BY SALMAN RUSHDIE

Midnight’s Children.

RUSHDIE, Salman.

Item Number: 1545

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

First American edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual fading to the spine endemic to this title. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

Midnight's Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the country's first hour of independence on August 15, 1947. "An extraordinary novel...one of the most important to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (Robert Towers, The New York Times Book Review). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.

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