Book #15847

Kalila And Dimna: Selected Fables Of Bidpai

Ramsey Wood

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
ISBN: 0394506936
Illustrator: Illustrated by Margaret Kilrenny

Price: $29.25

An attractive first Alfred Knopf edition/first printing in Fine condition in slightly sun-faded dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century, as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature.

Selected fables of Bidpai, retold by Ramsay Wood, with an introduction by Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing; 8vo.

Author Bio

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing, born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, October 22, 1919 is a British writer and author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lessing is the oldest person ever to win this award. Doris Lessing passed away on November 17, 2013.