First UK edition. Octavo. Original publisher’s cloth, lettered gilt to spine, in the original dustwrapper.
 
A near fine copy, stain to top-edge, in a near fine dustwrapper, slightly faded of spine.
 
In this work, Timothy O’Neill used Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious to explain the huge popularity of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and how the narrative of the story can be explained by individuation - the healthy realisation of the self.