NMLP P-028655 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie · Jonathan Cape (London) · 2005

The UK Jonathan Cape edition (6 September 2005, ISBN 0224061615) and the US edition were released on the same date, so the two are effectively simultaneous rather than one preceding the other. The US first edition was published by Alfred A. Knopf, not Random House; collectors generally treat the Cape printing as the UK first and the Knopf printing as the US first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028655 for "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028655, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).