Shalimar the Clown
RUSHDIE, Salman
Shalimar the Clown
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005
8vo., black boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; dark blue endpapers; in the photographic dustwrapper featuring an image taken by Eric Valli; pp. [ix], 4-398, [x]; decorative printed title and chapter headings; near-fine, lightly pushed at spine tips; in near-fine wrapper (priced £17.99).
First UK edition, first printing, with full number line 1-10. Signed by the author to the title page.
Set in Kashmir and dedicated by the author to his Kashmiri grandparents, Rushdie’s eighth novel follows the titular character, a tightrope walker living in a village near Srinagar.
RUSHDIE, Salman
Shalimar the Clown
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005
8vo., black boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; dark blue endpapers; in the photographic dustwrapper featuring an image taken by Eric Valli; pp. [ix], 4-398, [x]; decorative printed title and chapter headings; near-fine, lightly pushed at spine tips; in near-fine wrapper (priced £17.99).
First UK edition, first printing, with full number line 1-10. Signed by the author to the title page.
Set in Kashmir and dedicated by the author to his Kashmiri grandparents, Rushdie’s eighth novel follows the titular character, a tightrope walker living in a village near Srinagar.
RUSHDIE, Salman
Shalimar the Clown
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005
8vo., black boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; dark blue endpapers; in the photographic dustwrapper featuring an image taken by Eric Valli; pp. [ix], 4-398, [x]; decorative printed title and chapter headings; near-fine, lightly pushed at spine tips; in near-fine wrapper (priced £17.99).
First UK edition, first printing, with full number line 1-10. Signed by the author to the title page.
Set in Kashmir and dedicated by the author to his Kashmiri grandparents, Rushdie’s eighth novel follows the titular character, a tightrope walker living in a village near Srinagar.