Rushdie (Salman) The Satanic Verses, FIRST AMERICAN PAPERBACK EDITION, half title inscribed to publisher and signed by the author, marginal toning affecting half title, title and dedication, original printed paper, slightly scuffed and bumped, 8vo, Dover, Consortium, 1992. ***Rushdie is a two time Booker Prize winner, who received many death threats from this controversial work, including a call for his assassination by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. The British Government put Rushdie under police protection.