first edition Hardcover
1977
by [Monotheistic Religion] [Persia] Boyce, Mary
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 284pp. Octavo [22 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards. Library of Congress stamp on copyright page (it has bled through to the title page). Periodic underlining and folding of pages in the first part of the text. Else, the majority of the pages are clean. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with general rubbing. An expansion of the Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, delivered in Oxford in 1975, this book contains the results of a year spent by the author in the Zoroastrian village of Sharifabad in Iran. The significance of the material is due to the fact that centuries of persecution made (truncated)
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