Books

First American Edition, First Printing. Signed. Unclipped, Fine dust jacket. Very minor bumping on upper front board tip. Provenance includes program from a lecture at Eastern Connecticut University in 2011. Tight and square, a stunning copy of Rushdie's most controversial work, for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. Rushdie: "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."

The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. It was met with significant controversy due to its portrayal of Islamic themes which led Rushdie to face death threats and a fatwa calling for his assassination.