Washington, D.C. Counterpoint, 1996. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Stated first printing. xii, 241 p.p. Quarter bound in brown cloth with tan paper boards, gilt lettering to spine and author's initials stamped in gilt to front board. Light sunning to head. Dust jacket is sunned at spine with very light..... More
Nutley, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 254 p.p. Blue cloth boards with blue illustrated dust jacket. Some wear to jacket and a few small tears. Small blue stains to FFEP at foot and edge. Lit-sen Chang was the former president of..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. brown cloth, 252pp. With 200 illustrations, 30 in colour. Eratta slip laid-in. Light bumping to spine o/w fine in near fine d/w, a small tear to foot of rear jacket corner. Offers insights into the early beginnings of the Indus Valley through..... More
Point Loma, California: Theosophical University Press, 1940. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 338 p.p. Original beige cloth boards with red spine label and gilt titling to spine. Boards and spine are damp stained. Rear hinge cracking at flyleaf. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. Hard Cover. 8vo. [xxxiv] 449 p.p. With a memoir of the author by Sir Harold Parlett. Printed fromt he Barnes & Noble sheets, with Routledge cancel to title page. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket a little discoloured, with bumping to spine head..... More
Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press, 1995. Soft Cover. 8vo. Translated from the German by Sophie Francis Kidd, under the supervision of Ernst Steinkellner. xviii, 247 pp. Heavy bumping to top rear corner. Light cracks to spine. Light rubbing to spine ends. Light scratches at front cover. Light..... More
New York, San Franscisco and Toronto: Sutra Translation Committee of The United States and Canada, 1997. Soft Cover. 12mo (tall). Dharma Series No, 10. Paperback. 60 pp. Near fine. Ex libris stamp of the Cham Shan Temple Library. Some creasing to upper corner of pages near front. THis book is..... More
New York: Atria, 2009. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth, grey paper boards. x, 256 pp. Rear board bowed, else fine. In Becoming Englightened, His Holiness the Dalai Lama powerfully explores the foundation of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to age-old questions: How can we live free..... More
Boston: Chinese Service Bureau, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. 18mo. Signed by author. 96 p.p. Yellow cloth with red lettering, w/ dust jacket. Jacket sunned at spine, small tear to front Laid in reviews and comments about the author and book. "'Selected Pearls of Wisdom' is not a necklace with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. White paper boards. viii, 275 pp. Fine. One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and..... More
Staten Island, NY. Soft Cover. 8vo. [n.d.] Yellow illustrated wrappers lettered in blue, 16pp.Ilustrated. Errata slip and brochure laid-in. Some faint smudges on wrapper but o/w about fine. More
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology, No. 5. xv, [3] 4-161 p.p. Small scratch to rear jacket cover and sporadic scratches to boards. Tight. A fine copy in near fine jacket. An exploration of psychoanalysis and Buddhism that..... More
New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 6" x 9" First edition, first state. Cover drawing in purple by Jesse Sorentino. Original printed wrappers, staple bound. Unpaginated, [18] pp. Age toning to edges, else fine. A collection of 66 prose poems by Kerouac..... More
Minato-ku, Tokyo: Kosaido Printing Co., 1984. Hardcover. Original jacket and decorative black cloth, (12), 307pp. Rubber stamp of Society for Buddhist Understanding to front free endpaper, some passages marked and underlined with highlighter and pencil, part of a publishers add blacked out with marker after endpapers, light staining to leaves..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). xii, 264 p.p. Light tear to jacket's spine tail. Light bumping to spine tail. Book and Jacket in Near Fine condition. More
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback, 69 p.p. English and Scottish Gaelic. Light creasing to joints and scuff to foot of rear cover, else fine. This book marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil's voice and vision, while rooted in the..... More
London: The China Society, 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo. China Society Sinological Series, Edited by Cyril Birch, No. 6. Based on a lecture delivered before The China Society on 26 June 1957. 51 p.p. Blue cloth boards with black lettering to front board. Damp stain to rear board. Dust jacket has..... More
London: Readers Union, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Creme cloth, xiii, 303pp. With 16 pages of double-sided photographs and illustrations. A small bump to top-edge of rear board, spine a bit faded o/w near fine in d/w. Jacket sunned with tiny tears at spine and extremities. After the Second World..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2009. Tranquillini, Michele. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. First English edition, full number line. Originally published in Italian as Uomini Dio. Black glossy paper boards. 255 p.p. Numerous colour photographs throughout. Light bruising to tail edges of boards, a few scuffs and small dents. Dust jacket..... More
s.l. The Nick Murray Company Inc., 2008. Hardcover. 8vo. Revised Third Edition. Light green cloth, 185pp. About fine in d/w. More
Kandy, Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Buddhist Publication Society, 1972. Soft Cover. 12mo. The Wheel Publication No. 183/184/185. Cream card wraps with red and orange, sewn binding. [6], 119 p.p., [3 p.p., incl. select readings and errata]. Wraps are sunned to extremities, bumpted at spine ends and corners, light rubbing to rear..... More
Washington: Counterpoint, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Text and commentaries translated from Sanskrit and Chinese. Full number line. Soft cover. 471 p.p. Bumping to spine ends, worse at head with short tear. Bruising to head and small spot of wear to rear cover. Zen Buddhism has inspired some of..... More
Vancouver: The Buddhist Spectrum Study Group, 1999. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED by Brian Ruhe. Part One of a trilogy. Illustrated soft cover. 416 p.p. Very light rubbing to extremities, sticker ghost to rear cover at foot, else a fine copy. A few pages have some yellow highlighting. Part one of..... More
San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1993. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, brown paper boards. XI, 535 p.p. Bruising to lower corners of boards. Bumping to corners of dust jacket. This book appeared just as religious leaders, scholars and faithful gathered for the first Paliament of the World's Religions..... More
New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv, 178 p.p. Jacket rubbed at spine head and edges of covers. Front inner flap price clipped. White smudges to rear board. Spine head and top of front board bruised, otherwise near fine. A collection of Zen sayings and haiku..... More