About this title: A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.
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Edition: Enlarged Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; The Noonday Press, New York
Date Published: 1966
ISBN-13:9780374504939ISBN:0374504938
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Reprint, 1991. 511 pp., index; 21 cm. Tight, clean text. Corner crease/front cover. Light handling/storage soil on edges. read more
Description: Very good. (3454) Paperback, Amended and enlarged edition, 14th printing 1981; Back cover has several light creases, otherwise new book, never used! read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374504939ISBN:0374504938
Description: Very Good. 0374504938 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages very good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Description: FINE/Trade pb. Great travel and other author tells the stories behind early European dieties in his inimitable way. Especially good on the poetic quality he finds. As-new, no markings, straight binding, clean and bright. 2001, SFG trade pb, 511 pp read more
Edition: Enlarged Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Copy has rubbing, minor edgewear with a few small nicks, very faint yellowing along the lower back edge, name inked on fep. The earliest European deity was the White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death, visibly appearing as the New, Full and Old Moon, and worshipped under countless titles. She was beautiful, generous, fickle, wise, implacable. Here is a historical grammar of poetic myth, with more important magical elements logically deduced from scattered relics ... read more
Edition: Amend&EnlrgEd
Binding: 22nd ptg
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1948, 1988
ISBN-13:9780374504939ISBN:0374504938
Description: 3 goddesses & man cover art. GOOD+ Condition..1 poem highlited. 5x8" thick Paper Covers 511pg heavy Postscript, Index. gift names ep....NOONDAY EDITION....BRIGHT YELLOW COVERS.. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Creative Age Press
Date Published: 1948
Description: Fair. Creative Age Press, 1948. Hard cover, 412 pp. Stated First Edition. Fair/ NO dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with three cranes and a star in black on the front cover and black lettering on spine. Rubbing and bumping to edges and corner with the color rubbed off in a few places along the edges and a tiny bit of fraying to the corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Cloth is lightly rippled on front cover from moisture exposure. Moderate overall rubbing, fading and soiling to ... read more
Edition: Reprint. 10th Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1976
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in near perfect condition. 511p. Trade paperback in new condition. Yellow and white with black decorative design, title and author. Part of an estate library collection. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Noonday Pr
Date Published: 1997-01-01
ISBN-13:9780374504939ISBN:0374504938
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780374504939. read more
""...I cannot make out why a belief in a Father-god's authorship of the universe, and its laws, seems any less unscientific than a belief in a Mother-goddess's inspiration of this artificial system. Granted the first metaphor, the second follows logically--if these are no better than metaphors....""
"This is a difficult read so if you're not a lover of mythology, it's not for you. However, if you want to take the next leap Graves is the man your looking for. Brilliant!"
"Francesca Lia Block made me read this. I have know idea if this man is insane or not but I was young enough when I read it that it blew my mind anyway."
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