The new Golden Bough, a new abridgment of the classic work / by Sir James George Frazer. Edited, and with notes and foreword, by Dr. Theodor H. Gaster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazer, James George, 1854-1941.

Contributor:

Gaster, Theodor Herzl, 1906-1992.

Feinberg, Sidney.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Golden bough

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology.

Religion.

Magic.

Superstition.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 738 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Criterion Books, [1959]

Notes:

"Designed by Sidney Feinberg."

"The completely new, one-volume abridgment presented here, prepared by an outstanding authority, makes available a condensation of Frazer's twelve-volume monumental work ... faithful to the original in all basic respects, while eliminating secondary material now obsolete as a result of the vast anthropological and other scientific studies of the intervening years..."

Includes index.

"Notes" and "Additional notes" included at the end of each part.

"Part I: The Magic of Kings (1-142) -- Part II: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (143-188) -- Part III; Death and Resurrection: The Rhythm of Nature (189-207) -- Part IV: Dying and Reviving Gods (208-302) -- Part V: Spirits of the Corn and Wild (303-431) -- Part VI: The Riddance of Evil (432-470) -- Part VII: Between Old and New (471-481) -- Part VIII: The Golden Bough (482-585).

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok April 1961 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

OCLC:

586083