THE TEMPLE AND THE HOUSE. by Raglan, Lord

New York: Norton & Co., 1964. 218pp. Burgundy boards. Copper lettering. Rubbing to the edges, Internally clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket has a triangular chip on the upper left corner of the front panel and a larger chip on the rear panel. "In his final work The temple and the house (Raglan 1964), he argues that houses derive historically from palaces, in turn derived from temples, where the most important rite of early religion was held: the annual marriage of the Earth and the Sky, performed to ensure prosperity and fertility.". First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good+/Good. Octavo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1964. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in very good dust jacket, discoloration and wear to the dust jacket.

W. W. Norton & Co, 1964. Hardcover. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. From private collection, Hard cover with dustjacket; No marks. Clean and tight. Rubbed and slightly edgeworn dustjacket; no marks. Front interior hinge cracked. ; 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.4 Inches; 218 pages; 25698 Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

London: Routlede & Kegan Paul, 1964. 1st ed. . Dark Pink cloth. Fine/Good-VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece+xi+218, 3 text figs (one a map); virtually pristine inside and out; unclipped jacket, in wraparound lamination as acquited, would be fine but for small label removal ghost with sellotape across centre spine with spot of lamination damage (this was a small rectangular blue marker of some sort of no apparent significance, thought it was above lamination at first, hence damage), also some slight ribbing to spine, apparently very scarce. Raglan's thesis is that houses originated as places of worship rather than occupation, an odd argument but he had been President of the Royal Anthropological Institute so could presumably get away with saying what he liked.