The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
$15.00
Condition Used paperback with extensive cover creasing, scuffs and scratches, rubbed edges and corners, wrinkling to the cover finish near the lower edge and age-toned pages. Read full condition
Used paperback with extensive cover creasing, scuffs and scratches, rubbed edges and corners, wrinkling to the cover finish near the lower edge and age-toned pages.
The book pictured is the copy you’ll receive.
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About this book
Joseph Campbell discusses mythology with journalist Bill Moyers, considering how stories and symbols from different traditions shape human experience. Their conversations range across religion, ritual, love, heroism and the ways ancient narratives continue to influence modern life.
Book details
- Author: Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Edition / printing: First Anchor Books edition, July 1991; twenty-sixth printing (26 printed at foot of copyright page)
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780385418867
- ISBN-10: 0385418868
- Pagination: xx, 293 numbered pages; includes index
Edited by Betty Sue Flowers. This smaller-format Anchor edition is distinct from the fully illustrated Doubleday edition originally published in 1988. Printed in the United States. A later printing, not the first impression. Library catalogue pagination is xx, 293 pages; retail catalogues commonly give 320 total pages.
Condition
Fair. Used paperback with extensive cover creasing, scuffs and scratches, rubbed edges and corners, wrinkling to the cover finish near the lower edge and age-toned pages. Condition is based on the supplied photographs; unshown pages have not been individually checked.
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