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Very Good in wraps. Foxing on top/side text block edges.

Quarto in green and black cloth; 416p; illus. The Bollingen Series, 17 Held / Literatur, Sprache; Mythologie / Einzelne Motive und Stoffe / 1900- ersch; Märchen / Geschichte, Kritik.

New York: Pantheon Books / The Bollingen Series XVII, 1949. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo. 416 pp. Black and white illustrations. Green and black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Title page printed in green and black. Missing dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with chipping and loss to crown; brief exposure to other edges. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked. Still a Very Good copy of Campbell's hugely influential work.

First edition. xxiii, 416 pp. Bound in publisher's black and green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good+ with staining to fore edge, wear and rubbing along edges. Text free of marking. Lacking dust jacket. The first appearance of the influential mythology book, which inspired Star Wars and 2001, among other popular works.

First edition of Joseph Campbell's magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 22 textual drawings, 12 plates. Boldly signed by Joseph Campbell on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First editions are rare, especially signed. In his seminal work, Joseph Campbell explores the theory that important myths from around the world have survived for thousands of years all share a fundamental structure, which he called the monomyth. Campbell's theory has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists, among them poet Robert Bly, novelist Richard Adams, directors Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas, and musician and lyricist Jerry Garcia. Listed by Time Magazine as one of best 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923.