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Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Grey paper boards with silver lettering on front cover, silver lettering on burgundy cloth spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1981. Stated second printing April 1981. 446 pages. Red DJ with white rear cover. DJ clean, slight fading to rear cover. Front flap of DJ clipped at top and bottom right edges. Black and white photograph of Salman Rushdie on rear flap. DJ inside a mylar sleeve. Boards clean and unmarked with no discoloration or fading. Alfred A. Knopf logo embossed on bottom right corner of rear board. Deckled edge pages with light foxing to top and bottom fore edges. Pages clean and unmarked with tight binding. Very Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if youd like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1981.
Price: US$107.00 + shipping
Description: 446 p. Audience: General/trade. Fair in fair dust jacket. Significant edge wear, chipping, tears and creases to jacket. Appearance improved in mylar. Previous owner's gift inscription on ffep, else unmarked. Some edge wear to boards, small tears at spine.
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rushdie's second book - winner of the Booker Prize, and recently selected as the "Booker of Bookers." First edition, second printing - published in the same month (April 1981)as the first printing. 446 pages in excellent, clean, white condition. Endpapers clean. Burgundy cloth over grey boards, silver titles. Very light sunning along the top and bottom edges. Corners lightly worn. Pink DJ with black/ burgundy titles. Price-clipped. Tiny chips along top edge, head/tail of spine. Spine slightly faded, and with two tiny nicks. Corners lightly worn. Binding nice and tight. VG+/VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Rushdie, Salman. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. Alfred A. Knopf, N. Y., 1981.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine but fot a tiny blue sailboat stamp on the ffep., in jacket with small traces of wear to extremities. Jacket is bright, unfaded and un-clipped. A very attractive copy of " the Booker of Bookers ".
Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 446pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 maroon cloth over gray boards. Very good/Very good. Minor sunning to the spine of the jacket. The American edition precedes the British edition. Second published work by Rushdie and considered by many to be his finest. Midnight's Children was awarded the Booker Prize, and was also awarded the Booker of Booker Prizes in 1993 to the best of the original 25 winners of the Booker Prize.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, USA, 1981.
Price: US$221.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, First Printing. A true first American edition with "First American Edition" to the copyright page. A very good plus copy in a very good plus jacket which is not price clipped, $13.95 to inner front flap, Light rubbing to the bottom corners of the front tips of boards, pages clean, tight binding. Small pen mark to top of text block, not a remainder mark.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children (first printing). Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1981. First edition, first printing in original first issue DJ with $13.95 price intact. Book is tight and clean, inside and out. Faint sunning along edges. Rear panel shows a crease across paper-covered board and minor wear to cloth binding on rear; book's structure and integrity is strong and sound. Attractive DJ shows two small chips and a closed edge tear. Considered one of the most important novels published in the English language over the last 100 years. Winner of the Booker Prize and subsequently, the winner of the Booker of Bookers; among all other Booker Prize winners.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: A solid copy of the 1981 1st American edtion. Clean and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with several small closed tears at the panel edges and very light soiling to the rear panel. Very light staining as well along the rear inner flap's bottom edge. Stil though, a perfectly presentable copy. Thick octavo, 446 pgs. The Booker Prize of Booker Prizes.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$359.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 446 pag - Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel - First American edition - The original price 13.95 on dust jacket
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight's Children: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981., 1981.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First U.S. edition. SIGNED by the author to the title-page. Publisher's remainder symbol to the lower page edges, one lower corner bumped, else near fine; in a near fine dust jacket with mild fading to the spine. Front flap retains the original $13.95 price. Midnight Children, Rushdie's second novel, won the Booker Prize in 1981, and considered to be "the best novel of all winners" on two anniversary occasions.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
RUSHDIE, Salman.. Midnight's Children.. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, titles to upper board and spine in silver, dust-jacket, spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. '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). This American edition, precedes all others.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Rushdie, Salman. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (signed 1st). Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1981 Alfred A. Knopf. NY. 8vo. 446 pages. first edition first printing, Stated. SIGNED directly to title page without inscription by Salman Rushdie. Signed in person in NYC in 2010. 1st issue DJ with 13.95 price intact on flap. Book is tight and square. corners are sharp. Gray panels and burgundy cloth are clean. pages bright and clean. Front panel has a faint razor thin line 4 inches long. Top page edges have 2 small scuffs. bottom page edges have a small random house logo (small house) stamped. 2 edges have most subtle toning. DJ is G+ as there is an open chip in upper left corner. DJ backstrip shows some fading but not that bad in comparison to what is usually found on this temperamental dj. Foot of DJ backstrip has a small moisture stain that also shows on bottom of DJ back. Considered one of the most important novels published in the english language. Winner of the Booker prize and subsequently, the winner of the booker prize amongst all other booker prize winners.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight's Children (First Edition). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. A lovely copy of the 1981 Booker Prize Winner; named The Booker of Bookers in 1993. The most influential book in the history of Postcolonial literature. Near fine copy in cloth-backed boards. In a remarkably sharp jacket, with minor sunning to rear panel, but absent typical fading to spine; also near fine. Housed in custom cloth slipcase, with pull-tab chemise.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy of the book in very Nearly Fine dust jacket. The pink of the jacket spine is ever so slightly faded, but no other wear to speak of. Rushdie's breakout second novel, published in 1981. Midnight's Children is a rumination on post-colonial India, and follows the story of the telepathic Saleem Sinai, born on the exact moment of India's independence. The novel won both The Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as well as the Booker of Bookers. It appears on the BBC's "The Big Read" as well as Penguin's Great Books of the 20th Century. Rushdie himself has been knighted, and The Times placed him on its list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945." Midnight's Children has been adapted for film and the stage - the latter by the Royal Shakespeare Company. "We have an epic in our laps. The obvious comparisons are to Gunter Grass in ''The Tin Drum'' and to Gabriel Garcia Marquez in ''One Hundred Years of Solitude.'' I am happy to oblige the obvious. Like Grass and Garcia Marquez, Mr. Rushdie gives us history, politics, myth, food, magic, wit and dung. I wish Mr. Rushdie's children, all of them orphans of history, would take over the world at dawn. This novel - exuberant, excessive, despairing -is special." (Contemporary New York Times Review). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Knopf, E-197, 1981.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1981. 446 pgs. Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine lightly faded and sunned). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of Indias independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with Indias 1,000 other "midnights children, " all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its peoplea brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time. E-150; 9.6 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches; 446 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (SIGNED 1st printing). Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1981 Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 446 pages. SIGNED and dated, in person in NYC on Mr. Rushdie's book tour for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. first edition first printing, Stated. 1st issue DJ with 13.95 price intact on flap. Binding is tight. Top page edges show foxing. Gray panels slightly soiled with uneven sunning. Burgundy binding slightly sunned. Corners show slight rubbing. DJ shows some uneven sunning. DJ spine shows sunning. Titles still bright. DJ corners show slight rubbing. Base of DJ spine has a small white sticker. Considered one of the most important novels published in the english language. Winner of the Booker prize and subsequently, the winner of the booker prize amongst all other booker prize winners. As a result of stated flaws, VG-/VG-. An important title, signed and dated in the 1st pressing by Sir Salman Rushdie.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition stated, first printing. Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Near Fine with light shelf wear and a previous owner's inkless emboss twice to the front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, which is shelf worn with light crimping, and with virtually no spine fading and uncommon as such.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition (preceding the British publication) of the author's epic second book, a novel about the independence of India. Winner of the Booker Prize. A fine, bright copy in priced dustwrapper with very mild fade. Not a scarce title, but surprisingly elusive in collector's condition.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$1125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 446 Pp. Maroon Cloth Over Grey Boards. "First American Edition" Stated, But True First Edition, Preceding The British Edition Published By Jonathan Cape. Winner Of The Booker Prize, Also Winner Of The "Booker Of Bookers". Signed By Rushdie On The Title Page. A Bright, Clean Fine Book. No Remainder Marks. Dust Jacket Is Clean, Slight Fading To Pink Background Color On Spine, Light Wear Along Bottom Edge Of Spine With A 1/8" Square Chip Near The Spine Edge, Price Clipped, 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children (signed by author). Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnights Children. NY: Knopf, (1981), 1981.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First edition of the authors Booker Prize-winning novel, also acclaimed as the Booker of Bookers. Fine (but for a previous owner quite small name and address on the front free endpaper) in a fine dust jacket with the ubiquitous standard sunning to the spine panel. A beautiful example. Midnights Children chronicles modern India through the lives of the one thousand and one children born within the countrys 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. A serious collectible example made even more special as this sharp Booker of Bookers First Edition is signed on the title page by Salman Rushdie.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (signed 1st printing). Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$1975.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1981 New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 446 pages. first edition first printing, Stated. 1st issue DJ with 13.95 price intact on flap. SIGNED by Sir Salman Rushdie directly to the title page and dated. Signed in person in NYC on Mr. Rushdie's book tour for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. Book is tight and square. corners are sharp. No real flaws keeping this book from grading near fine or better. Gray panels and burgundy cloth are clean. Pages are bright and clean. DJ backstrip shows sunning. DJ has 2 tiny closed tears at edge. Minor rubbing at DJ backstrip base. Most faint ringstain outline to front DJ cover (faint). Considered one of the most important novels published in the english language. Winner of the Booker prize and subsequently, the winner of the booker prize amongst all other booker prize winners. A bright, unread copy signed and dated by Sir Salman Rushdie.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example. 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.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
RUSHDIE, Salman.. Midnight's Children.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, 1981.
Price: US$2575.27 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, preceding the UK edition which was made up from the American sheets. Midnight's Children won the 1981 Booker Prize as well as the 1993 "Booker of Bookers", celebrating the best book in the history of the prize. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blue and green patterned endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom