ISBN10: 0571089399, ISBN13: 9780571089390, [publisher: Faber & Faber, London] Hardcover FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1972. Hardback. Black cloth; gilt lettered spine. In black and red printed dust-jacket (price clipped). Minor wear only to jacket. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. NEAR FINE. Jacket VERY GOOD INDEED; now in an archival quality clear protective sleeve. 295 pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-290). Index. CONTENTS: Part I: Introduction -- Part II -- Twilight in a golden age -- A circle in time -- Circe's realm -- Death in a sunlit landscape -- Time's baleful face -- Part III: Destructive encounters -- Part IV -- Gotama and the corpse -- New worlds of the mind -- The perennial philosophy -- The diabolic element -- Shadows in the void. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
[WIGTON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1972]