Search Results: Heroes

New York: The Congregational Home Missionary Society. Good; Some age wear. 1904. Hardcover. 304 pages .

London: Senate. 1995. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 374 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

NJ: Silver Burdett, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. paperback Lightly rubbed. Box 2847. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Sydney: Hachette Australia. 2009. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 369 pages. Gripping tales from the dark side of Australian history. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

New York: Alfred A Knopf. 2004. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 496 pages. Heroes, Saviours, Traitors and Supermen- a history of Hero Worship. . Like New. 1st US Edition. Hardback.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1970). First American edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), xv & 168 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in dust jacket which is quite faded at the spine but otherwise very good.
Contents Include:
Services: The Epic of Tullus Hostilius and the Myths of Indra: Myth and Epic; The "Horatii" and the "Āptya"; Mettius Fuffetius and Namuci; The Warrior Function and its Relations to the other two functions; The Indo-European Heritage.Fatalities: The Three Sins of the Warrior: Solitude and Liberty; Indra the Sinner; The sins and the Losses of Indra; The Three Sins of Starcatherus; The Three Sins of Heracles; Fatalities of the Warrior Function.Promotions: Epiphanies, Dumies, Grimaces: The Moments of a Heroic Career; Vr̥trahán, Vereshraǧna, Vahagn; Warriors and Animal Forms; Scenarios and Accessories; Signs Upon the Hero.