Birth and Rebirth: Initiation in Human Culture 1958 Mircea Eliade ~ First Edition
$75.00
Title: Birth and Rebirth: The Religious Meanings of Initiation in Human Culture
Author: Mircea Eliade / Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
Publication: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958
Description: First Edition, stated. Blue cloth boards with silver-lettered black spine. Previous owner's name rubber-stamped on front free endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket rubbed; light edge-wear; faint spots of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped ($3.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. xv + 175 pages.
A study of the rites, ordeals, symbols and myths of Initiation, representing the Haskell Lectures which Eliade delivered at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1956 under the title ''Patterns of Initiation''. For its publication, he added an Introduction, some notes and bibliographical references.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG
Jacket Condition: VG+
Keywords: history of religion, religious studies,
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