first edition
1950 · New York
by Wilhelm, Richard [Translator]; Cary Baynes [Translator]; Carl Jung [Introduction]
New York: Pantheon Books / Princeton University Press, 1950. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, housed in publisher's slipcase. Fine, in Very Good+ dust jackets, spine panels dulled, scratched, and soiled; vol. I jacket worn along top edge. Near Fine slipcase.The very first English-language translation of the Chinese classic text The I Ching, attributed to Fu Xi. Baynes' English rendering of Wilhelm's German translation continues to be widely read today. With an introduction by eminent psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
(Inventory #: 140944869)