A Goddess Named Gold

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled and rubbed, bumped at the corners. Quarter yellow cloth, faded at the edges, with black paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Bhattacharya's modern fable of India at the time of Independence, the story of a village girl who receives a magical amulet that turns copper into gold if she does good deeds.