Sacred and the Profane, The – Mircea Eliade
VG Paperback

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional second paperback edition, early printing copy of The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade. Second Edition described, 2007 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Thirty-eighth Printing with partial letter line.

The exterior of the paperback edition is in Very Good  condition, with lightly soiled covers with no creases, a strong title on a square spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no spine cracks, no spine tilt, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Good condition with Heavy underlining and margin notes mostly in the first 60 pages. Also with an erased price on the first free end paper.

In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. It’s this premise that both drives Eliade’s exhaustive exploration of the sacred—as it has manifested in space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself—and buttresses his expansive view of the human experience.

Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.