Axis of Eros Tapa dura - 1988

Schocken, 1973. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Fair with some spotting to endpapers but otherwise clean. Some heavy wear to jacket with chipping and tears. Boards are somewhat warped but still tight

>jacket edge worn, rubbed and chipped at spine edges

Schocken, 1988. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Stored new. Dust jacket in near fine condition. Photos emailed upon request

Schocken Books Inc, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Used book has very little markings, writing from the previous owner. DJ has some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. This unique volume - a montage of paintings, statues, and photographs, captioned by poems, hymns, aphorisms, and quotations, from psychologists, philosophers, and other thinkers and linked by the author's own commentary - shows how sexual imagery reveals basic differences between the cultures of the East and the West. Since Eden, Western mas has never found the explanation for his fate in guilt and sin. The reality principle has defeated the pleasure principle, and there is no escape from time. The Indian, on the other hand, seeks a still point outside of time; he has never lost Eden. The Rasamandala - the dance of Krishna and his innumerable adorers - demonstrates that in the East Sacred and profane love are the same ... The Axis of Eros is at once a picture album, a book of spells, and a chant of… Leer más

Schocken Books, 1973. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Covers sunned along top edge. Dust jacket edgeworn and chipped.