The I Ching, or Book of Changes
by Wilhelm, Richard [Translator]; Cary Baynes [Translaltor]; Carl Jung [Introduction]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/good
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 2 vols. 1st edition in English, 1st printing. Foreword by C. G. Jung. Original cloth, fine, in chipped dustjackets, and worn slipcase. From many varieties, these jackets have rear flap ads reassuringly dated "1950" and married reprints don't. The I Ching is the most venerable masterpiece in all of Chinese Literature with all you can handle on multiple levels including a fortune telling game for the sleeping uninitiated and a stairway into the mind of Confucius for the conscious and awakened. The origins of I Ching were as a divination text from the 10th-4th century BC. This edition was originally translated into German by Wilhelm in 1924, then into English here by Baynes— considered the first accurate and culturally sympathetic translation.
Reviews
On Oct 15 2017, a reader said:
Superlative, the best of the best translations: first translated from Chinese to German by Richard Wilhelm, then from German to English by Cary Baynes. In spite of this double translation, it is still the. BEST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 983
- Title
- The I Ching, or Book of Changes
- Author
- Wilhelm, Richard [Translator]; Cary Baynes [Translaltor]; Carl Jung [Introduction]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- SF2024
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