NMLP P-028645 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie · Jonathan Cape (London) · 1981

Jonathan Cape London 1981 is the true first; Alfred A. Knopf New York 1981 is the first US. The UK Cape first is markedly scarcer and more valuable than the US.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028645 for "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028645, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).