About this title: This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by previous owner. Covers show very slight wear. Text has yellow highlighter from page 123 on. Text is otherwise clean. Binding is very tight. xiii, 248 p. plates. 24 cm. plus B&W "plates" "Lecture course delivered at Columbia University the winter tem of 1942. " read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972
ISBN-13:9780691017785ISBN:0691017786
Description: Trade Paperback. Very Good/Soft Cover. Bollingen Series VI. 30 page plate section. Has 3 or 4 very small ink and pencil notations. read more
Description: PUP, Bollingen Series VI. SOFTCOVER. (1972? ) 248 pages plus; B/w plates. Occasional neat underlining, clean and tight, very good. No DJ. read more
Edition: Second Paperback Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780691017785ISBN:0691017786
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and though, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements. " This book has 248 pages and is ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780691017785ISBN:0691017786
Description: ISBN 0-691-01778-6. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Tight sound copy with underlining to text, some fade to spine, original price has been blacked out making this a reading/reference copy only. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Date Published: 1972.
ISBN-13:9780691017785ISBN:0691017786
Description: Corners slightly dinged, else very good plus unused condition with text clean & binding tight. 248pp, 70 black/white illustrations. read more
Edition: 3rd printing
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1953
Description: b&w plates. Very Good in Good-Very Good dustwrapper. 8vo. Dustwrapper. 248pp. A study of the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore; chapters on Eternity and Time, The Mythology of Vishnu, The Guardians of Life, The Cosmic Delight of Shiva, The Goddess; 70 b&w plate illustrations; being Bollingen Series VI, edited by Joseph Campbell; black and green cloth boards with Bollingen motif in gilt to front board, and lettering in gilt to spine; this copy Very Good throughout; dustwrapper ... read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Bollingen Series VI, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780691017785ISBN:0691017786
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xiii, 248 pp., plates, bib. notes, index; 22 cm. First published, 1946. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of ... read more
"Very interesting read. I enjoyed that the text was written by Zimmer but edited by Campbell. Since the study of Hinduism is completely new to me, there was a lot to take in with this text. However, I am fascinated by it all!! The only thing that I didn't like about the text is that the great images of the Indian art are small and in the back of the book and in black and white."
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