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The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama
by Lord Raglan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Watts & Co., 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 310 pages, with bibliography and index. First Thinker's Library edition of book originally published 1936. The Thinker's Library #133. With original preface and short preface to Thinker's Library Edition, by the author. 4-1/2" x 7", faded red cloth with rubbed silver gilt lettering, very faded red (?) topstain, end papers decorated with Watts logo (W + oil lamp) in red as repeating pattern, light wear to corners, heavier to heel and crown, 3/4" tear along front edge of spine from crown, spine sunned, foxing to end papers and front matter pages, front hinge cracked at title page, a few pages accidentally dog-eared at top. Bookstore price in pencil and names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 45 pages. Laid-in clipping (from TLS?) of review of Lord Raglan's The Temple and the House, from August 1964.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-205
- Title
- The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama
- Author
- Lord Raglan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Watts & Co.
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- THE THINKER'S LIBRARY, MYTH, RITUAL, DRAMA, TRADITION, LANGUAGE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama; Anthropology;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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