Moor's Last Sigh, The by Salman Rushdie ISBN 13: 9780394281223

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Canada, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pantheon Books. New York, 1995-01-01. First Edition. HARDCOVER. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Canadian first edition, first printing. Stated first Canadian edition on copyright page. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Back of jacket has a small 1/4 inch tear to top. . Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. Remainder mark.

1995. Hardcover. Good.

Toronto, Ontario: Knopf Canada, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Canadian First. First Canadian Edition stated on verso of title page; a bit of edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover; 434 pages.

Toronto: Knopf Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0394281225 . Light edgewear to DJ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 434 pages; In a spirited story related at a breakneck pace and crammed full of melodrama, slapstick, supple wordplay and literary allusions, Rushdie has again fashioned a biting parable of modern India. Telling his story "with death at my heels," the eponymous narrator relates the saga of a family whose religious, political and cultural differences replicate the fault lines by which India is riven. The Moor tells of "family rifts and premature deaths and thwarted loves and mad passions and weak chests and power and money and... the seductions and mysteries of art." He speculates on the duality of all things, the conflicting impulses of human nature and the clash between appearance and reality. Like the tale itself, the title has multiple layers of meaning. "The… Read More

Knopf Canada. Used - Good. Bargain book!

Knopf Canada. Used - Very Good.

Knopf Canada. Used - Good.

Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 437

Knopf Canada. Very Good+. 1995. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0394281225 . Black hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine. First Canadian Edition. In Very Good++ condition, a solid binding with a bright, unmarked interior. Light corner and spine bumping. The DJ is unclipped with cover scuffing, edgewear and a tear to the back cover top spine hinge. "What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems, its political forms - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family , finds himself at such a moment of crisis. His mother, a famous painter and an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand. Moor falls in love, with a married woman; when their secret is revealed, both are expelled: a suicide pact is proposed, but only the woman dies. Moor chooses to accept his fate, plunges, into a life of depravity in Bombay, then leaves for London where he… Read More

Pantheon Books. New York, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. His First Novel In Seven Years, Rushdie Creates A Masterpiece Of Controlled Storytelling. The Moor Evokes His Family's Often Grotesque But Compulsively Moving Fortunes And The Lost World Of Possibilities Embodied By India In This Century.

A & W Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394281225 . Black hard boards, very nice, with only a little bumping to the spine ends. The DJ is unclipped, glossy with moderate edgewear and scuffing. "In The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight's Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

"The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rushdie. [Toronto:] Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [1995]. pp. 437. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover, black cloth, gilt stamped title on spine (all edges browned, a few marks to fore edge, inscription on half-title page, interior clean & unmarked). dw. (unclipped, tear near top, at spine). It is also covered with a library archival plastic jacket. Very good condition.Size: 9 1/2" x 6 3/8" (24cm x 16cm).Rushdie's first novel following "The Satanic Verses".

New York: Pantheon Books, 1995 First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 435 pages. Soaring, swooping, Rushdie lifts himself free of his contemporaries. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.

Toronto, Canada: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1995. First Canadian edition. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, else near fine. Pages spotless. DJ lightly rippled along edges, wrinkled at head of spine, tear (1/8 inch) at lower edge of rear flap, else very good. Protected in mylar. Note: heavy book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Moor's Last Sigh tells the family history of Moraes Zogoiby, known as 'the Moor'. He is the last survivor of a family descended from the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (ca. 1469-1524), who sailed to India in search of spice and whose offspring grew rich in shipping it to the West. It is set in the Indian cities of Cochin and Bombay and is the fifth novel by the British novelist Salman Rushdie. In 2019, the BBC added it to its list of 100 Most Influential Novels.It was published in 1995, simultaneously in the UK, the US and Canada, although all of the books were printed in the UK. This is a stated First Canadian Edition.The book has not been read, or even opened. But, just from being moved around, there are two brown marks on the outside edge of the paper (not inside). The dust jacket (unclipped) has bits of wear and yellowing at the edges.Otherwise perfect.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada [0-394-28122-5] [1995], 1st Canadian Edition. (Hardcover) 434pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. (Fiction).