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Macmillan & Co, 1967-01-01 Spine Wear, Cover Creased. See our Terms of Sale for a detailed description of condition notes. Paperback. Used - Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

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London: Macmillan Press, 1971. Reprint.. MM Paperback in color illus wraps.. Good w owner name inside, faint dampstain to rear fewpages.. The classic work first published in 1922. Solid tight clean PB reading copy. From the library of author Mary K. Greer, with her signsature inside. 971 pp, index,

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1970. Paperback. Good. 1970. Reprinted. 971 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

London: Macmillan & Company , Ltd.. Good+; Light reading creases and shelf wear, some heavy foxing to inside . covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; 8th printing, 1976. Nice . tight copy, no names inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. Wrap . around cover artwork by Peter Goodfellow.. 1976. Abridged Edition. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Eighth Printing; 992 pages; A wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes. It offers a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. ; 0333096290 .

London: Papermac. 770pp paperback, covers rubbed, good . Good. Soft cover. 1987.

Macmillan. Fourth Printing of the Imperial Edition, which includes both volumes in one. Spine chipped and sunned. No DJ. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1941.

Canongate Books. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The golden bough : a study in comparative religion (Volume II).

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The golden bough : a study in magic and religion (Volume XII).

Macmillan and Co, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (As Issued). Original green cloth covers with gilt titles and a gold cover decoration. A Very Good copy. Book has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, toning to pages, sunning to spine, chipping to top and bottom of spine, and a slightly cocked spine. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. Pages uncut. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

Paperback / softback. New. Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures.

Papermac (MacMillan), London, 1995. XIV,756p. Paperback. Spine with opening trace. Appears unread. 'In this classic work, inspiration and source book to many, Frazer sets out the seminal themes of myth and magic that emerge throughout the history of the human imagination. Themes such as the death of the fisher king, the magical mistletoe sprig and the sacred oak grove are traced through the rituals of ceremony and sacrifice from ancient Greece, through the druid and shaman traditions and the worlds of Odin and Arthur, to the bedrock of image and symbol that underlies human consciousness.' (SPECTATOR).

(London: Macmillan, 1914). Third edition. Demy 8vo; original green cloth with gilt "golden bough" device to upper cover, and spine lettered in gilt; pp. xiv + 453, incl. index. Light wear and some stippling to cloth; a little foxing to endpapers and some spotting to edges; several pages unopened. Good to very good condition. "The aspect of the subject with which we are here chiefly concerned is the use of the Dying God as a scapegoat to free his worshippers from the troubles of all sorts with which life on earth is beset. I have sought to trace this curious usage to its origin, to decompose the idea of the Divine Scapegoat into the elements out of which it appears to be compounded. If I am right, the idea resolves itself into a simple confusion between the material and the immaterial, between the real possibility of transferring a physical load to other shoulders and the supposed possibility of transferring our bodily and mental ailments to another who will bear them for us."… Read More

Papermac. Fine. 1987. Paperback. 0333434307 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 770 pages .

Wordsworth, London, 1990's Paperback. Very Good