Book #14589

The Enchantress of Florence - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Salman Rushdie
Book #14589 The Enchantress of Florence - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Salman Rushdie.
The Enchantress of Florence - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 2008.
ISBN: 0224061631

A most beautiful first printing of the first Trade edition/first printing, preceded only by a privately published Easton Press edition, in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Salman Rushdie directly on the title page.

This is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is also story of two cities at the height of their powers - the hedonistic Mughal capital, ruled by Akbar the Great, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns about the true brutality of power (from the dustjacket) ; 8vo; [viii], 359, [1] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $75.00

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Author Bio

Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born June 19, 1947, he is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries. Faced with a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground. Rushdie was knighed for services to literature on 16 June 2007.

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