MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
by Salman Rushdie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 039451470X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394514703
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
First American edition (precedes U.K. edition) first printing hardcover in first state dust jacket; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; some dust top text block edge; tight bind; clean 1/4 cloth cover bright titling; dj edge wear at top corners; little sun fade along spine; flap price present dsk
Synopsis
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is expressed through various characters and is contexted by actual historical events as with historical fiction. Midnight's Children won both the 1981 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918738
- Title
- MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition U.S.
- ISBN 10
- 039451470X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394514703
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....