Publisher, Macdonald General Books, London, 1980. first edition.
Hardback with D/J, bound in black book-cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pp. 218
Condition, Very-Good, the case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and bottom corners.
The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The D/J is also very good with some shelf wear and bumping to the spine ends and corners.

John Cowper Powys and the Magical Quest is a detailed examination of Powys’s ‘mythology’. The term was used by him to cover not only his philosophy and his art, but all that had influenced him in the literature, legend and occult lore of the past. The book shows how his studies in the Grail Quest, Welsh legend and the writings of the alchemists were used to shape his philosophy and how this in turn helped to dictate the form and and content of the novels he wrote mainly to express it.