About this title: Initially intended as an anthropological study, the original "Golden Bough" became a study of the origins of magic and religion. This abridged edition holds a magnifying glass to Frazer's insights into the nature of magic and religion and focuses on the central theme of sympathetic magic. Illustrated throughout with art, artifacts and images from ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Batsford Ltd
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780713481082ISBN:0713481080
Description: Good. Bumping to edges. Pages clean and crisp This book is in good all round condition which means that it will show signs of wear and having been read. Any questions please e-mail, only too happy to help. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied. We aim to ship within one working day. read more
Edition: First Issue In This Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Softback Preview, England
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780713481082ISBN:0713481080
Description: As New. This magnificent, accessible edition...is illustrated with art, artifacts, and images drawn from the riches of the world's cultures. 224 pages. read more
Publisher: The Softback Preview
Date Published: 1996
Description: A lavishly illustrated version of Frazer's masterpiece on Man, myth and magic. 224pp. with b/w & colour illustrations & plates. A very good+ large format copy in soft covers. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The Softback Preview, London
Date Published: 1996
Description: Nr Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Large paperback book. Some light handling wear and small indentations to rear cover. Illustrated in colour and B&W. Abridged by Robert K.G. Temple. 224pp inc index. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc., New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: MacCormick, Sabine. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Introduction by Mary Douglas. Brown cloth, brown endpapers, illus. in color and b/w, 256 p. Dust jacket price-clipped. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BCA, London
Date Published: 1978
Description: Colour Plates. Very Good/Very Good. 4to Dust jacket complete. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. 256 pages clean and tight. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684818504ISBN:0684818507
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996
Description: VG+. Oversized Softcover. A study in magic and religion. 224 pp. with color and black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1996
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 224 pgs. Color illustrated. A masterpiece of the author's work "illustrated with art, artifacts, and images drawn from the riches of the world's cultures. " read more
Edition: Abridged Edition
Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Publisher: Book Club Associates, London, England
Date Published: 1978
Description: MacCormack, Sabine. Good in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover with brown boards and pictorial dust jacket, Abridged Edition, 800gms, 253 pages plus index, brown coloured endpapers. The illustrated Golden Bough is an entirely new abridgment of the original thirteen-volume edition written by Sir James George Frazer on the study of magic and the origins of religion. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear, pages 171/172 have been torn from the book. Dust Jacket is in ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1996-12-06
ISBN-13:9780684818504ISBN:0684818507
Description: Very Good Text. Size: Oversize; Paperback in very good condition. Very light sunning, minor shelfwear. Spine is uncreased, pictures, binding and text also in very good condition. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: BCA, London
Date Published: 1978
Description: FINE in FINE jacket. Hardback Reprint Heavy 4to. 256pp, plates in colour and b/w, index etc...............[ CONDITION DETAILS: Faint edge-crease to spine ends else FINE in FINE Dust Jacket, a very clean and tight copy in not far from new condition ].......Unless otherwise noted: 1st Edition means First Printing; books are in the original publishers binding; wrappers (present only if mentioned above) are complete, un-clipped and provided with transparent protectors. read more
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