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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

Name: The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
Author: Sir James George Frazer

Book Description

A set of thirteen volumes in all, ending with the supplementary volume, comprising: Part I The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings vol 1 & II rpd 1955; Part II Taboo and the Perils of the Soul rpd 1927; part III The Dying God rpd 1923; Part IV Adonis Attis Osiris vol I rpd 1919 with ownership signature & vol II with ownership signature 1919; Part V Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild vol. I ownership signature part unopened & vol. II ownership signature, rpd 1919 part unopened; Part VI The Scapegoat ownership signature, unopened; Part VII Balder the Beautiful vol. I ownership signature, unopened vol. II ownership signature, unopened; vol XII Bibliography and general Index, ownership signature, unopened, with Aftermath: A Supplement to The Golden Bough first edition 1936

Dealer Notes

various years of issue, all the third and most comprehensive edition, reprinted 1919-1936

Author Sir James George Frazer

Binding 8vo hardback, bound in green publisher's cloth gilt, some vols with mistletoe design gilt to front boards, all in wrappers

Publisher Macmillan & Co Ltd

Condition a very clean set, some with neat single ownership signatures, no annotation, no bookplates etc, all in wrappers some toned with losses edge chips, latter volumes largely unopened

Price: £350.00

Offered by Salsus Books

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