R. Prawler Jhabvala, Stated first American edition, first printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price ($3.95) still intact. Some chipping on jacket designed by Mel Rustam. Jacket photograph by James F. Ivory. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1964. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine. No writing or markings in the book, 224 pp.
This was the authors sixth novel. The American edition was published a year after the UK edition (1963). This was the authors first story collection.
"In the 11 stories that make up “Like Birds, Like Fishes,” she proves her capability both in satire and in good prose. The New Yorker magazine has called her novels “comic masterpieces” and has also printed many of the stories that appear in this book. She is sometimes compared to Jane Austen, Aubrey Menen and Evelyn Waugh." (New York Times).
