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SALMAN RUSHDIE.. Grimus. A novel.. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1975.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A faint shadow of very light partial toning to the free endpapers. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally faded at the spine panel and with a tiny trace of wear to one or two extremities. The author's first novel, a science fiction and fantasy narrative, which was considerably disparaged upon publication.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
RUSHDIE, Salman. Grimus. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1975.
Price: US$303.00 + shipping
Description: First British Edition, First Printing. This edition precedes the US edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and purple dust jacket with white lettering. Hint of toning along board edges. Corners lightly bumped. A bit of dust soiling to top edge of text block. Smoothed out creases to upper corner affecting first ten leaves, otherwise internally clean and bright. Unclipped dust jacket with light wear to edges and two small closed tears along edges of rear panel. Some faint spotting to verso of dust jacket. Better than Very Good in a Better than Very Good dust jacket. As Rushdie's first published novel, Grimus was intended to be a work of fantasy, folktale, and science fiction, although some early critics argued that there is very little actual science fiction. The Los Angeles Times disagreed, writing "Grimus is one of those novels some people will say is too good to be science fiction, even though it contains other universes, dimensional doorways, alien creatures, and more than one madman. Grimus is science fiction in the best sense of the word. It is literate, it is fun, it is meaningful, and perhaps most important, it pushes the boundaries of the form outward.".
Seller: Walnut Street Paper, LLC, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Grimus. London; Victor Gollancz;, 1975.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing of author's first novel. Signed by the author. Near fine, bruised to top and tail of spine and some minor staining to foredge in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
RUSHDIE, Salman.. Grimus.. London Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's lilac boards, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, minor creasing to extremities, else near-fine. First edition of the Booker Prize-winning author's first book; a foray into science fiction.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
RUSHDIE, Salman. Grimus. Victor Gollancz, London, 1975.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (20cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt at spine; dustjacket; 319pp. Some light offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers, with a touch of faint, scattered foxed spots to text edges; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, and notably unfaded at the spine; some pinpoint wear at extremities, with a faint diagonal crease to front flap; very Near Fine. A presentable copy of the esteemed Booker Prize-winning author's first book.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Grimus (Signed 1st edition). Victor Gollancz, London, 1975.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Rushdie’s literary debut, a foray into science fiction. Minor foxing to front and rear end papers, else nearly fine in purple boards lightly bumped on the lower corners; the dw is about fine with just a hint of wear to the corner points. The book is SIGNED by Rushdie on the title page.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
RUSHDIE, Salman.. Grimus. A Novel.. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975, 1975.
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. This is Rushdie's first novel, an attempt to amalgamate the eastern and western influences on his writing. He wrote: "I wanted to find a way of taking themes out of Oriental thought and expressing them in a western novel" (Cundy, p. 27). Grimus is a complex experiment, blending mythical narrative, fantasy, and science fiction. It was described by the author as a "quite clever book. But that's not entirely a compliment. It's too clever for its own good" (quoted in Johansen, p. 24). "Rushdie blurs the distinction between magic and science by keeping the reader in the dark as to the nature of the fantastical events in the story until well into the narrative, so that the fantastical events of the story appear at first to be the result of magic; it is only later that the reader understands that the 'magic' in the story is produced by a technologically advanced race of aliens" (Braun, 19-20). Michele Braun, "Science Fiction as Experimental Ground for Issues of the Postcolonial Novel", in Masood Ashraf Raja, Jason W. Ellis, & Swaralipi Nandi, eds, The Postnational Fantasy, 2011; Catherine Cundy, Salman Rushdie, 1996; J. B. Johansen, "The Flight from the Enchanter", in M. D. Fletcher, ed., Reading Rushdie, 1994. Octavo. Original purple boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine panel of jacket slightly faded, tiny nick to one corner, not price clipped: a fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Rushdie, Salman. Grimus. London; Victor Gollancz;, 1975.
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing of authors first novel. Signed by the author. Fine in near fine, but spine faded, dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
RUSHDIE, Salman.. Grimus.. London & New York Victor Gollancz & Overlook Press, 1975.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: UK: first edition, first impression; US: first edition, first printing; 8vo; both vols signed by the author on the title page; UK edition: publisher's lilac boards, titles to spine gilt, original dust jacket printed in dark blue and purple; together housed in a purple cloth slipcase and chemise. Both lovely copies in dust jacket. The author's first book in the UK and US printings. All your Grimus needs in one fell swoop.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Grimus" by Salman Rushdie - Victor Gollancz, 1975 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - book in very good condition in very good dustwrapper with minor wear at spine edges 2. "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 1981 first UK edition third impression - signed by author on title page - book in very good condition in very good dustwrapper 3. "Midnights Children" by Salman Rushdie - Alfred A. Knopf, NY - 1981 first American edition first printing - signed by author on title page - very good copy in very good dustwrapper 4. "Shame" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, London - 1983 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - fine copy in fine dustwrapper 5 "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie - Viking, 1988 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - very good copy in very good dustwrapper 6 "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie - Granta Books, 1990 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - condition: book in very good condition in good dustwrapper 7 "Quichotte" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, London - 2019 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page book in very good condition in very dustwrapper 8 "Luka and the fire of life" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 2010 first UK edition first printing - signed by author - fine copy in fine dustwrapper 9 "Two Years - Eight Months & Twentyeight nights" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, London - 2015 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - fine copy in fine dustwrapper 10 "Imaginary Homelands - essays and criticism 1981-1991" by Salman Rushdie - Granta Books, 1991 first American edition first printing - signed by author - good copy in very good dustwrapper 11. "East, West" by Salman Rusdie - Jonathan Cape, 1994 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - book in very good condition in original dustwrapper with some creasings 12 "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" by Salman Rusdie - Jonathan Cape, 1999 first UK Uncorrected Proof - signed by author on title page - book in good condition 13 "The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rusdie - Jonathan Cape, 1995 UK Uncorrected Proof copy, no 37 - signed by author on title page - book in good condition 14 "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" by Salman Rusdie - Jonathan Cape, 1999 limited UK edition no 56/150, signed by author on special page - fine copy in full black leather binding in original slipcase 15. "The Moor's Last Sight" by Salman Rushdie - 1995 limited edition of 91/100, signed by author on title page - very good copy in full green leather binding with minor spotting on spine, in original slipcase 16 "Shalimar The Clown" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 2005 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - book in very good condition in very good dustwrapper 17 "The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 1995 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - condition: book in very good condition in good condition 18 "Joseph Anton - A Memoir" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, London - 2012 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - very good in very good dustwrapper 19 "The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 2008 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - good in very good dustwrapper 20 "The Golden House" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 2017 first UK edition first printing - signed by author - very good in very good dustwrapper 21 "Fury" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 2001 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - book in good condition in good dustwrapper 22 "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" by Salman Rushdie - Jonathan Cape, 1999 first UK edition first printing - signed by author on title page - very good copy in good dustwrapper, with official ticket to 2007 event include
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands