Chan hai li ce
Taibei: Lao gu wen hua shi ye gong si, 1986. 390p., very good hardcover, tenth printing. More
Cat.No: 232709
Taibei: Lao gu wen hua shi ye gong si, 1986. 390p., very good hardcover, tenth printing. More
Cat.No: 232709
Kobenhavn: Glydendalske Boghandel - Nordisk Forlag, 1942. Hardcover. 176p., numerous b&w site and portrait photos on inserted coated stock, a custom-bound travel/anthropology account entirely in Danish; the textblock consists of the softback original with its striking wraps well-preserved, now cased into quarter-leather over 10x7 inch marbled boards. The brown leather..... More
Cat.No: 259035
Kyoto: Daiho Printing Co., 1961. 318p. paperback, minor shelfwear, private owner's address rubberstamped at end. Not found in OCLC as of April 2024. Posthumously published Buddhist missionary text by the California-based author, who had lived in the US for more than 30 years. More
Cat.No: 320059
Kyoto: privately printed for the author, 1956. 164p. in Japanese, 30p. in English; paperback, minor shelfwear. Not found in OCLC as of April 2024. A collection of writings by the California-based Buddhist, written while he was convalescing at Olive View Sanatorium. After having been interned at Tule Lake during the..... More
Cat.No: 320058
Los Angeles: the museum, 1978. Paperback. 58p., profuse b&w exhibit photography with several lovely color photos (color images are better-reproduced than b&w), softbound in 10x8.5 inch glossy colorphoto wraps. Front cover corner-tips are creased, else the item is is as-new: sound, clean, unmarked. More
Cat.No: 298368
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Paperback. 236 pg. paperback, 6 x 9 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with photographs, maps, and charts. An examination of the history of Raku, the Japanese pottery firing technique. More
Cat.No: 278257
North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1979. Paperback. ix, 220p., wraps, ex-library with usual markings, wraps toned and handled, else good with clean interior. More
Cat.No: 273960
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. Pamphlet. A substantial pamphlet in good shape, and, nested within, a fragile supplementary brochure in very good shape. First item is 10x8 inches with presswork on glazed alkaline stock, consists of 16p. of introductory text printed double-column followed by 56 numbered b&w..... More
Cat.No: 297930
New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications, 1983. 303p., includes chronology and bibliography; hardbound in cloth boards gilt and glazed dust jacket. Casing is slightly edgeworn, jacket more so, half-title bears a faint grey smear, sewn textblock exhibits some of the quirkiness of South Asian binderywork, a sound copy free of..... More
Cat.No: 183998
New York: American Fabrics, 1967. Pamphlet. [40]p., illustrations, wraps. 8.25 x 6 in. Author's inscription on title page, signed in black marker and thumb printed in red ink. Very Good. Series of 16 short poems with accompanying illustrations, inspired by Zen Buddhism. More
Cat.No: 319137
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
New York: Tibet House New York in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996. Hardcover. 488p. color illustrations, very good condition in like dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 318295
Cupertino CA: Foothill-De Anza Community College District, 1982. Paperback. 46p., a large softbound booklet, 11x8.5 inches, printed on super-glossy coated paperstock, illustrations from b&w exhibit photography, cuts usually quarter- and half-page size fitted into the double-column text. Covers have some soil and faint discolorations, and front wrap bears a large..... More
Cat.No: 246862
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Hardcover. xx, 273p., illus., very good condition in an unclipped and yellowed dust jacket with an old price sticker on the front panel. More
Cat.No: 171345
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965. Paperback. xxix, [250]p., no illustrations, a handsome softbound in 9.5x6 inch frenchfold wraps. Mildest signs of handling, a sound square exemplar, covers bear a little dust-soil and numerous mystery flecks, a very good copy: text perfectly clean and unmarked. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1959..... More
Cat.No: 299409
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. 176p., profusely illus., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 287943
Toronto: Lang Van, 1996. 229p., 8x5.5 inch wraps, very good. Text in Vietnamese. Vietnamese edition of Satomi's autobiography, "Journey in search of the Way." More
Cat.No: 137565
Tokyo: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1945. Paperback. 115p. paperback, spine panel chipped at top, pages evenly toned. On the fundamentals of Buddhist painting. More
Cat.No: 296597
npl: npub, nd. Paperback. x+78p.+ unpaginated Chinese text, diagrams, text in English and Chinese, very good in original pictorial wraps. A Buddhist reading of the Judeo-Christian commandments. More
Cat.No: 97766
Los Angeles: SGI-USA, 1994. Staplebound. 44 pg. staple-bound booklet, 5.75 x 8.5 inches, very good. Testimony from Soka Gakkai members about their negative experiences with Nichiren Shoshu priests. Since 1990, conflict between Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai, its former lay organization, has erupted due to disagreements between the two groups..... More
Cat.No: 276672
Taipei: Guoli Taiwan Daxue Wenxueyuan 國立臺灣大學文學院, 1970. 134p., wraps, textblock partly bent, Text in Chinese with two page summary in English. Guoli Taiwan Daxue Wenshi Congkan / History and Chinese Literature Series No. 33. More
Cat.No: 167468
n.p. Buddhist Churches of America, 1974. Staplebound. 25p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches. Small scar at top edge of front cover, else very good. More
Cat.No: 289042
Honolulu: Takiko Ichinose, 1959. Paperback. 85p., paperback, 5.5x8 inches. Light soiling to wraps with black box drawn on cover, small stain on fore-edge of text block, else very good. More
Cat.No: 289045
Kyoto: English Publication Bureau, Honpa Hongwanji, 1954. Hardcover. 84 page hardcover, very good. Buddhist Publication Series No. 2. More
Cat.No: 307315