Reeves and Turner, January 1892. Hardcover. No jacket. Cover is suuned toward the spine and spine's gilt lettering is rubbed. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Starting after front endpapers, but pages are clean, foxing limited to front and back endpapers. More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his..... More
I.B. Tauris, January 2005. Trade Paperback. "Gardens of the Gods" reveals the symbolic language of garden design, exploring the gardens of China, with their moon gates and immortal rocks, the Zen gardens of Japan, the paradise gardens of Islam, those of Renaissance Italy with their richly mythological imagery, the landscaped..... More
University of Chicago Press, April 1988. First Edition. Cloth. As Lé vi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification", and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lé vi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation..... More
Penguin Global, April 2007. Trade Paperback. The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature. This work set against the turbulent backdrop of medieval history paints a picture of life in..... More
Library of Congress; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], January 1973. Stapled Soft Cover. 17 pages. No markings. Clean & solid. More
Dover Publications, June 1953. Trade Paperback. Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more. More
St. Martin's Press / Academy Editions, January 1976. Paper Back. Clean, sound, very good+ all around. More
Harper, 1962. Trade Paperback. More
Random House Childrens Books, October 1995. Oversize Softcover. "For any child fortunate enough to have this generous book...the kings and heroes of ancient legend will remain forever matter-of-fact; the pictures interpret the text literally and are full of detail and witty observation."-- "Horn Book." "The drawings...are excellent and excitingly evocative."--..... More
Abu Hasan, January 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. Folio. First edition; paperback original. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. More
N/A, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
New World Library, February 2002. Hardcover. Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer..... More
Bantam, October 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1964. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1962. Trade Paperback. More
Doubleday, May 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Broadway, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the..... More
Broadway, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the..... More
Random House Inc, June 1994. Paper Back. A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the..... More
Ultra, October 2014. Paper Back. Clean, sound, no markings, gently read & appears not read. An occasional journal celebrating 'the traditional myths, culture and social institutions of pre-Christian, pre-modern Europe..' by rejecting 'the modern, materialist reign of quantity over quality, the abscence of any meaningful spiritual values, environmental devastation, and..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. More
Atheneum, September 1993. Hardcover. This work features ten stories from the 'Tales of a Thousand and One Nights' including the well-known ones of 'Aladdin and the Lamp', 'Ali Baba and the forty thieves', and 'Sinbad the Sailor'. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Facts on File, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Two very lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
