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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good condition, heavy shelf wear (boards exposed at all corners), shaken binding, speckling to textblock edges, discolorations t
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1949. Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound black cloth spine and green cloth boards, gilt spine titles and black cover decoration; xxiii, 416 pp., with index. Good condition, heavy shelf wear (boards exposed at all corners), shaken binding, speckling to textblock edges, discolorations to base of spine.. From the collection of New York School poet, librettist and publisher, Kenward Elmslie. Inscribed on the front free endpaper from poet and friend
Gerrit Lansing: "for Kenward [two astrological symbols] Happy Birthday, 1952 from Gerry ..." the real music of changes"...." A fair copy of Campbell's landmark work of comparative mythology, desirable primarily for its notable association.
Gerrit Lansing: "for Kenward [two astrological symbols] Happy Birthday, 1952 from Gerry ..." the real music of changes"...." A fair copy of Campbell's landmark work of comparative mythology, desirable primarily for its notable association.
Synopsis
Campbell discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths. This work was an inspiration behind Star Wars and 2001, as well as many other modern works.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2274
- Title
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Author
- Joseph Campbell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound black cloth spine and green cloth boards, gilt spine titles and black cover decoration; xx
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition, heavy shelf wear (boards exposed at all corners), shaken binding, speckling to textblock edges, discolorations t
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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