Ka. Stories of the Minds and Gods of India.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. [Folklore / mythology / spiritualism] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.447; [5], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardback with silver titles to the spine, green endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper. Small ink mark to fore-edge else fine in p/c wrapper. Roberto Calasso was a multilingual Italian writer, scholar and bookman, the chairman of Adelphi Edizioni. He was the Italian publisher of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. This copy has the author's business card tucked in, from a meeting between Calasso and Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert at a book launch event. From the Gilbert collection, with his pencil ownership signature within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #71773
Gilbert, p.519.
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