(SIGNED) Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens Van Der Post - 1975

Hardcover Cloth 276 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition Second printing 1975 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Foxing on top edge, otherwise Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Inscribed by author on title page.

Laid in photo of author at Jung's Stone in Bollingen.

"The fascination of Jung is inescapable and van der Post has given us an excellent book--eloquent, learned and most impressive in its evocation of a devilishly provocative man."--The Nation

That Laurens van der Post should have chosen to write about Jung will come as no surprise to the millions of people who saw the three television programs that he devoted to the story of Jung's life and work. Indeed, part of the compulsion for putting the experience of his extraordinarily fruitful friendship with Jung into book form was precisely that the limitations of a single film sequence left him with the insistent feeling of a challenge only partially met.

To present Jung as he knew him, not Jung the psychologist but rather Jung the man, the discoverer and explorer of a new dimension in the human spirit, was the task which Laurens van der Post set himself and which has taken his special gifts to accomplish. Published in 1975, this book is mainly about fears held by Jung in the 1930s, regarding the Germany of the 1930s. It is also a prophetic treatise about the more recent rise of fascism and the internal colonization of the working class, women, people of color and other marginalized people, in the United States.