RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Midnight's Children. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 maroon cloth lettered in silver; dust jacket, spine panel just slightly faded, unclipped with a few tiny nicks at upper extremities, 1 inch V-shaped closed tear and crease at top of rear panel; upper corner portion of front free endpaper neatly excised. first american edition preceding the English edition by several weeks, of the author's Booker Prize winning novel. New York: Knopf, 1981