The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage and of Primitive Thought in Its Bearing on marriage (2 Vols.)

  • Cloth
  • London: Methuen & Co, 1927
By Ernest Crawley
London: Methuen & Co, 1927. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. The 1927 2nd edition, "revised and greatly enlarged by Theodore Besterman" and complete in 2 volumes. Both volumes solid and VG (former owner armorial bookplate at each pastedown, light offsetting to the endsheets) in crisp, VG examples of the uncommon dustjackets, with light chipping at the spine ends and along Vol. II's top-edge, and darkening along the spines. Still though, very presentable. Thick octavos, "one of the very few classics of anthropology and of primitive psychology

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