The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. Author's signature to recto of title page. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Externally, excellent, with just a bit of bumping to the bottom corner of front board. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Rushdie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.Collated, complete. His work combines magical realism with historical fiction and usually concerns relationships between Western and Eastern civilisations. It combines two cities, one being the Mughal capital and the other being Florence, that turn out to be 'uncannily alike' as 'the enchantments of women hold sway over them both'.?Salman Rushdie is a British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent.

First edition, first impression.?Signed by the author on title page.?In the unclipped dust wrapper.?Beautifully illustrated, with front pastedown taken from 'The Building of Fatehpur Sikri Palace' from the Victoria & Albert Museum, and rear pastedown detailing a panorama of Florence from the 'Carta della Catena' in Museo di Firenze Com'era.?'The Enchantress of Florence' is a work of fiction by Salman Rushdie, which tells the story of 'a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world'. A well-presented signed first edition copy of Rushdie's 'Enchantress of Florence', with beautifully illustrated paste downs. Author's ink signature to recto of title page. Sticker on front of wrapper which can be removed. Dust wrapper also in excellent condition. Rushdie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. It combines two cities, one being the Mughal capital and the other being Florence, that turn out to be 'uncannily alike' as 'the enchantments of women hold sway over them both'.? Salman Rushdie is a British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent. First edition, first impression.? Signed by the author on title page.? In the unclipped dust wrapper.? Beautifully illustrated, with front pastedown taken from 'The Building of Fatehpur Sikri Palace' from the Victoria & Albert Museum, and rear pastedown detailing a panorama of Florence from the 'Carta della Catena' in Museo di Firenze Com'era.? 'The Enchantress of Florence' is a work of fiction by Salman Rushdie, which tells the story of 'a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world'.

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie