The Esalen catalog: May-October 1996
Big Sur: Esalen Inst. 1996. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, course descriptions, biographies, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 193112
Big Sur: Esalen Inst. 1996. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, course descriptions, biographies, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 193112
n.p. Human Kindness Foundation, n.d. [6p.], 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left corner, very good condition. Text appears to have been downloaded from internet, in a form very different from what is now on the website of the Human Kindness Foundation. Discusses the Project's goal of teaching compassion to..... More
Cat.No: 141096
San Bernardino, CA: the author, 2016. 433p., gargantuan paperback novel (11x8 inches), rather an awkward format for fiction because of the resultingly huge printblocks. First installment in a spiritual trilogy by the Princeton graduate who became a meditation teacher (though flunked book design). From back-cover introductory text: "..the world's longest..... More
Cat.No: 217914
New York: New Directions, 1949. Paperback. 32p., softbound first American edition in book form, presswork on nice paperstock, staplebound in blank wraps furnished with a plain printed blue sur-wrapper. One staple is faintly rusted, with no migration; the sur-wrap faintly sunned along spine and fore-edge margins; a brief line of..... More
Cat.No: 316891
Culver City: Peace Press, 1981. Paperback. [xvii], 220p., softbound, apparently the first issue of the paperback edition, 9x6 inches. Mild edgewear with a tiny ding to a back cover margin, else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 291231
npl: Self-published by the author, 1976. Pamphlet. 57p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound; rubberstamp on back cover of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project, Berkeley Christian Coalition, Berkeley, Calif., slight uneven toning, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 310531
Wallingford PA: Pendle Hill, 1953. Pamphlet. 32p., softbound, a small pamphlet in 7.5x5 inch grey-blue wraps, nice clean copy with a touch of sunning to spinefold. Sound, clean, unmarked, really near-new. Inspirational; a reassuring guideline to inner acceptance how life baffles one. Pendle Hill 73. More
Cat.No: 312505
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1957. Hardcover. 211p., foreword, texts in English, obi band texts pasted onto front pastedown endpaper, first printing stated but ex-library with check-out sheet and card pocket pasted on rear endpapers (only checked out once), good in lightly worn decorative boards and matching slipcase. Scarce first..... More
Cat.No: 297915
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1958. Hardcover. 231p., hardbound in 8x5 inch dark blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the plain printed dust jacket. Item's last reader used the back flap (blank) as a bookmark, and its fold-line is slightly askew with a tiny marginal tear. Item is..... More
Cat.No: 317224
San Francisco: Sadhana Brothers, 1994-96. Newsletter. Fifteen issue broken run, single 8.5x11 inch sheets with the month events printed one side only, some wear, some with addresses on rear and stamps. Gay Men on the Path of Eternal Truth. Issues include: April, June, August, October-December 1994; January-April, June-August, Nov/Dec 1995;..... More
Cat.No: 279540
np: Self-published by the author, 2010. Pamphlet. [32]p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illus., very good condition in stapled wraps. Guide to meditation by the Japanese-American artist. More
Cat.No: 274097
Taiwan / Sri Lanka: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 2022. Flexible Cloth. 118p., text in English translation, hardbound in 9x7 inch colorphoto flexi-boards; handsomely designed. A near-fine copy with a faint touch of edgewear. FYI, this item was originally distributed free, and has an evangelical tone... More
Cat.No: 296334
San Francisco: 1979. Paperback. xvii, 300 pages, closed tear to front cover, otherwise very good. Laid in is an eight-panel brochure introducing the members of the delegation. More
Cat.No: 194610
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1832. Hardcover. viii, 340p., small hardbound book in 7.2x4.5 inch boards, half-bound in cheap morocco over marbled boards, a re-bind of an earlier production; raised bands gilt with plain gilt titling. The textblock was trimmed, affecting an old sepia ownership signature to titlepage, but we see..... More
Cat.No: 305170
Taiwan / Sri Lanka: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 2021. Paperback. [53]p., text largely in English, plus several facsimile pages of either Tamil or Sinhala; softbound in 9x6.5 inch colorphoto wraps. A near-fine copy with a faint touch of edgewear. FYI, this item was originally distributed free..... More
Cat.No: 296325
Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1988. Paperback. [365p] daily meditations, very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Hazelden Meditation Series. More
Cat.No: 120112
Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1948. Pamphlet. 33p., plus publisher's menu, softbound in 7.5x5 inch tan wraps slightly handled, staples have rusted with spotty migration to cover surfaces, a good (good-only) copy. Pendle Hill pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 311777
Marion, OH: The Buddhist Ray, Inc, 1994. Magazine. 128p., 8.5x11 inch wraps; slightly handled wraps, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 292225
Sussex, NJ: TAO, 1977. Pamphlet. 9p., 5.5x8.5 inches, personal inscription initialed R by author, bibliography, rusty paperclip mark else very good pamphlet in stapled wraps illustrated with a drawing of the author meditating nude. First in a series self-published by the educator at William Paterson College in Wayne. More
Cat.No: 311593
Fairacres, Oxford: SLG Press / Convent of the Incarnation, 1980. Pamphlet. 26p., softbound, a pamphlet stapled into 8x5.5 inch lavender wraps printed in purple ink. Just inside the cover, a neatly placed seller's fiche from the Dawn Horse shop. Nice clean copy, perfectly sound and unmarked. Fairacres publication 43. More
Cat.No: 261255
Brooklyn: Dem Dare Books, 1990. 27p., staplebound wraps, very good. Brief poems related to Buddhist meditation. Washington, incarcerated in New York prisons for many years, received national recognition for his poetry and his play, THE BOYS IN CELLBLOCK "C". He was released after a campaign by a number of New..... More
Cat.No: 206372
Zürich: Rascher Verlag, 1939. Hardcover. xviii, 150p., illus., boards edgeworn, spine faded, gilt titles worn off in some places, else very good condition. No dust jacket. Text in German. More
Cat.No: 319383