Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (First Edition – Ronald Blythe Interest)

From the library of Ronald Blythe.

First edition, first printing in original unclipped dust-wrapper. UK issue taken from the American sheets. Original red quarter cloth. Silver lettering to spine. Grey boards with author’s initials in silver. The novel that made Rushdie’s name. Includes Blythe’s neat ownership signature in blue ink to front endpaper. Condition: a light fading to  top edge of dust-wrapper’s rear panel. Faint spotting to endpapers. Boards a little rubbed to extremities.