The Hero With A Thousand Faces.

CAMPBELL, Joseph.

Item Number: 1679

New York: Pantheon, 1949.

First edition. Octavo. Original boards. Light wear, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

In his seminal work, Joseph Campbell explores the theory that important myths from around the world have survived for thousands of years all share a fundamental structure, which he called the monomyth. Campbell's theory has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists, among them the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas.