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Jessie L. Weston. 
From Ritual to Romance.
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, n.d. (previously issued by Cambridge U.P.)
[No ISBN].
Paperback, perfect bound.
106x180x14mm.
xvii,217pp. 
English.
Fair condition: covers grubby; creasing to the spine; at least 10 pages have some marking in red biro, mostly sidelining in the margins. 

This item £5.00 
[Several editions in print]
150g. 

Best known as the inspiration for some of the symbolism in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Weston applies the insights of Frazer's Golden Bough to the Holy Grail corpus. Contents: Introductory; Task of the hero; Freeing of the waters; Tammuz & Adonis; Medieval & modern forms of nature ritual; The symbols; The sword dance; The medicine man; The fisher king; Secret of the Grail - (1) The mysteries, (2) The Nassene document; Mithra & Attis; The perilous chapel; The author.   

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