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Book Description Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Seller Inventory # M00710002572-G
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. first edition book, includes the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # mon0003174390
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a couple pulls to the binding but remains solid overall, a slight skew to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends, a touch of wear to the cover edges and corners, and faint sunning to the head. Overall, a Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and rubbing to the covers with a smudge that extends from the head of the front gutter to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 204799
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, x + 142pp + 24 pages of glossy b&w plates. A touch of sunning to boards edges, else fine condition. Book is clean and bright throughout, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Dust jacket with one really tiny edge-nick, gently sunned spine, mild edgewear. -- Contents: Introduction: Counter-culture, magic and the new consciousness; Pt.1. Magic and cosmos: -- 1. The magical universe 2. Archetypes and belief systems: The relevance of C.G. Jung and John Lilly 3. The Tarot and transformation; Pt.2: Sound and symbol: - 4. Surrealism and the Qabalah 5. Magic and fantasy: The new visionary art 6. The rise of cosmic music; Conclusion: Where is it all going?; Notes; Bibliography; Index -- "Several commentators, among them Theodore Roszak and Joseph Chilton Pearce, have suggested that the current wave of interest in exotic religions, cults and beliefs reflects our need to re-affirm our position in a world from which we have begun to feel alienated. Nevill Drury,who has written widely on magic and the occult, discusses the nature of contemporary magical thought - encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah - and considers its impact on the creative imagination. He presents a fusion of the creative, magical and mythological undercurrents which are part of the 'new consciousness', and traces the influence of surrealist art and the expansive psychedelic period on the art and music of the 1970s. He looks, for example,at the relationship of the fantasy art on record sleeves to the electronic inner-space music which it often accompanies, and shows that this form of modern music represents one facet of the contemporary reaction against scientism and of the search for what Roszak has termed the visionary sources of our culture. Nevill Drury concludes that a major mythological impulse is emerging in our culture and that magical and surreal approaches represent a profoundly invigorating and inspiring attitude linking the individual to the cosmos. The book is illustrated by examples of the work of Ernst, Dali and Magritte, as well as Roger Dean, Mati Klarwein, Wilfred Satty and others.". Seller Inventory # 005641
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Discusses the nature of contemporary magical thought and its impact on the creative imagination. Traces the influence of surrealist art and the expansive psychedelic period on the art and music of the 1970's. References to Austin Osman Spare & Aleister Crowley. First Edition. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London 1979. illus x + 142pp hb dw faded & rubbed, book vg. Seller Inventory # 040781
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Discusses the nature of contemporary magical thought and its impact on the creative imagination. Traces the influence of surrealist art and the expansive psychedelic period on the art and music of the 1970's. References to Austin Osman Spare & Aleister Crowley. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London 1979. illus x + 142pp hb dw clipped & faded, inscription on fep, book fine. Seller Inventory # 001793