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Rushdie, Salman.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories. [Signed by the Author].
Publisher: Viking, London;
Date of Publication: 1999
Stock Code: 9908
First edition thus. Quarto, pp. 222, [2]. Numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Paul Birkbeck. Publishers’ navy cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Surface loss to rear paste-down (where label has been removed?) otherwise clean and crisp; signed by the Author, without dedication, to title-page. A near fine copy in fine jacket. First children’s book by the award-winning novelist, with themes of censorship and freedom. First published in 1990, this edition is the first to be enhanced by the exquisite artwork of painter Paul Birkbeck. £95.00