Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. Paperback. xvi, 80p., coated paperstock throughout with b&w reproductions in the extensive text; 9x7 inch glossy wraps, ex-library with rubberstamp and pen notation on front wrap and extensive pen notation on verso of title page, else good condition. More
Cat.No: 173771
[Madrid]: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1983. 177p., illustrated with folded line-maps and tables, 11x8 inch wraps lightly shelfworn, foxing to front endpaper and textblock edges; ownership label on front endpaper blacked out, interior otherwise clean. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 203845
San Francisco: Zen Center, 1969. Pamphlet. 55p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, illustrated with b&w photographs, remains of stickers used to held shut for mailing on all three open edges of both wraps, address penned on rear wrap else good condition. Letter announcing the Center's move to San Francisco laid in..... More
Cat.No: 251504
London: Tiger Books International, 1999. Hardcover. 96p., 12.5x9.3 inch hardcover, coated paperstock, profuse color portrait and site photography amidst the text, first edition laminated pictorial boards in same-image dust jacket. Clean and sound, a fine copy. More
Cat.No: 177217
New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1979. Paperback. 68p., a large pamphlet-style softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps, profusely illus., wraps lightly soiled, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 252157
Madrid: Real Monasterio de El Escorial, 1960. Pamphlet. Pagination as above, softbound, a sewn booklet in 9.5x6.5 inch photo-decorated wraps, illustrated with a number of b&w plates on semi-glazed inserted stock (clerical photoportraits, exhibit photos), a generally sound, handleable copy with a ruined spine panel that resembles "disbound" status but..... More
Cat.No: 312766
Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Co., 1975. Magazine. 48p., small magazine in 8x6 inch color wraps, illustrated with b&w portraits of followers, mild edgewear with a couple mild corner creases, else sound, and clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 299939
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. xii, 383p., illustrated with numerous b&w photos and featuring two separate doublespread endsheet maps of Tibet, 'historic' and 'today'; hardbound first edition in clothbacked boards and dust jacket. Jacket is a little edgeworn, a sound, clean, unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 226099
London: Open Court Publishing Co, n.d., reprint of 1906 edition. 121p., very good hardcover in orange-brown cloth boards titled brown, an immaculate copy. Compiler-editor Carus has woven a story from ancient texts. More
Cat.No: 216090
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. American hardbound first edition in excellent shape. x, 280p., vii, first American edition red cloth boards with green and gilt spine labeling; spine panel a bit sun-faded, corner-tips minutely turned, small adhesion to back cover. A sound clean copy that lacks the jacket..... More
Cat.No: 271525
Cairo: L'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire, 1971. Hardcover. 391p., text entirely in French, hardbound in textured plastic boards, this casing is white with no titling, enclosed in a dust jacket with titling and a blurb flap. Three of four corner-tips bear minute bumps, dj is edgeworn with some dust-..... More
Cat.No: 278089
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. xvi, 166p., clothbacked boards in two fabrics, titled gilt on black, glossy maroon dust jacket. Entirely clean and sound, a fine copy. Discussion of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and Eusebius' Life of Origen. More
Cat.No: 178004
Berkeley: [the author], 1930. 172p., hardcover, mild handling wear and dust-soil. Account of a pilgrimage through Tibet. More
Cat.No: 222645
New York: The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., Inc., 1957. Paperback. 456p., softbound in journal wraps with a plain printed cover; a little edgeworn with mild handling wear, textblock bears a few faint pencillings, a previous owner has written author's name on spine, an otherwise clean..... More
Cat.No: 230255
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. Hardcover. xviii, 380p., first edition faux-leather gilt in glossy dj, very good. Millennialism in the late third century. From the dj concerning this manuscript of a Coptic apocalypse, being "an extended prophecy of the end-times that enjoyed wide circulation in late antiquity, reflecting a type of..... More
Cat.No: 172996
Tokyo: Japan-Bharat Sarvodaya Mitrata Sanga, 1982. Paperback. 64p., illustrated in b&w photography showing shrines and gatherings, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps; first printing of this translation into English by Yumiko Miyazaki. A near-new copy: pace faintest signs of handling, item is entirely sound, clean and unmarked. The word sarvodaya..... More
Cat.No: 313528
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1920. Hardcover. xii, 436p., sepia photogravure frontispiece (a tissue-guarded Botticelli)), numerous sketches as called for reproduced in vignette, a b&w fold-out city map has a small tear at the stub, hardbound in 7x4 inch grey cloth boards with lavish gilt, the spine gilding rather dim..... More
Cat.No: 279178
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1939. Pamphlet. 40p., 4 fold-out monastery floor plans, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled, staples rusted else good condition. Historical Association Pamphlet, No. 112. Revised and enlarged reprint of Historical Association Pamphlet No. 32, originally published in 1913. More
Cat.No: 250833
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. ix, 217p., scattered illustrations, hardbound in papered boards and dust jacket. A sound, clean, unmarked copy. Heine promotes a reconciliation between traditionalist and revisionist views; critics have pointed out worldly motives amongst the transcendental. More
Cat.No: 244850
London: Chatto and Windus, 1970. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 376p., a few period illustrations, hardbound in the "collected" format: 8x5 inch teal-blue openweave cloth boards gilt. Lacks the "series" dust jacket, unfortunately. Slight wear to extremities, a bright sound copy, clean and unmarked. The collected works of Aldous Huxley. More
Cat.No: 315554
London: Chatto and Windus, 1941. Hardcover. viii, 278p., hardbound in light grey cloth boards with spine-titling gilt on a printed red field, first edition, top edge tinted a dusky red, mild edge- and handling-wear. Lacks the jacket. A satisfactory copy, not as-new but respectfully read, with hinges sound, textblock clean..... More
Cat.No: 315868
Mexico, D. F. SEP INAH / Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1980. Paperback. 38p., illustrated with line drawings, seven (7) fold-out drawings (these show layout of chapel, excavation cross-sections, bone locations) and some b&w photography. Small softbound in 7.5x5 inch decorated wraps; covers rubbed, one folded plan has a...... More
Cat.No: 245881
Berkeley: University of California, 1946. Hardcover. ixvii, 272p., second printing, brown cloth-covered boards gilt in distressed dust jacket; line illustrations from ancient images, fold-out maps (one on onion-skin), extensive tables. Corner-tips slightly turned and shelfworn, otherwise undamaged, unmarked, a very good clean copy, the dust jacket somewhat abraded and lacking..... More
Cat.No: 61805
San Francisco: Golden Phoenix Press, 1982. 34p., 5.5x8.5 inches, personal inscription signed by the lead author in year of publication, very good first edition booklet in stapled green pictorial wraps. Jerry, an obstinately simple man, had a sense of vocation from youth and stayed in his chosen order until death..... More
Cat.No: 189423
Tokyo / Amsterdam: Time-Life Books | Bijutsu Shuppan-sha | Harry N. Abrams, N.V. Hardcover. 554p., massive 14x10 inch hardbound covered in irridescent brocade, protected by its original acetate sur-wrapper and a strong slipcase that may have been repaired (anyway it's sturdy). The old acetate is edgeworn and faintly cloudy and..... More
Cat.No: 277073
