New York: Pantheon Books (The Spiral Press), 1954. 1st. Decorative Cloth. The 1954 signed/limited. #247 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY BEN SHAHN on the limitation page. A sharp, well-preserved copy to boot: Solid and VG+ in its buckram boards, with bright gilt-insignia at the front panel and lightly-flecked gilt-lettering along... More about The Alphabet of Creation: An Ancient Legend from the Zohar
Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Records. Record. An Alan Watts lecture on "Om: The Sound of Hinduism". The 33 1/3 LP Record is very clean and the pictorial sleeve is bright and crisp, with very light rubbing to the front cover and light soiling at the rear cover. More about Om: The Sound of Hinduism
Harvard University Press, 1996. 1st. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 390 pgs. More about Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution
Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, Inc., 1992. 1st. Cloth. The 1992 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its navy-blue cloth, with bright gilt-lettering along the spine. Light dustiness to the panels, otherwise clean as could be. Octavo, 428 pgs. More about The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: (I: Problems in the Literary Source Material
Hong Kong: Periplus Editions, 1992. Original Wraps. A handsome example of the 2 volume set. Both volumes 1992 2nd printings and both volumes immaculate and Fine in their pictorial wrappers. Thick octavos, 759 pgs. all told. Volume I: Essays on Religion, Ritual and Art; Vol. II: Essays on Society, Tradition and Craft. More about Bali: Sekala & Niskala (2 Vols
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1958. 1st. Original Wraps. A clean, crisp copy of the 1958 1st edition. VG+ in its original wrappers AND in a bright, VG+ pictorial dustjacket. Octavo, 299 pgs., crisp black-and-white plates thruout. More about Islam d'Espagne: Une Recontre De L'Oriente et De L'Occident
Japan Publications Trading Company, 1967. 1st. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the July 1967 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a bit of wear along the tips. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind... More about Dynamic Judo: Grappling Techniques (with Dustjacket AND Slipcase
Tokyo: Seibundo-Shinkosha Publishers, 1961. Hardcover. A very solid copy of the 1961 stated 6th printing. Tight and VG+ in its patterned burlap boards, with bright, unflecked letering at the front panel and spine. Tasteful former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper and very small "Charles Tuttle" (the publisher and... More about Canon of Judo: Principle and Technique
Los Angeles & San Francisco: Suttonhouse, 1933. Hardcover. The 1933 1st edition, #19 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR NATALIA DOBBINS on the limitation page. Solid and VG in its ribbon-tied orange boards, with very light spotting at the front panel and light staining to the upper edges of... More about Feng Ching--Chinese Sketches
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Cloth. A very solid copy of the 1977 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with just a touch of light creasing to the front panel. Octavo, 225 pgs. More about The Tao Is Silent
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. 1st. Decorative Cloth. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1892 1st edition. Tight and VG+, with bright silver lettering and decoration at the front panel. 12mo, 276 pgs. More about An American Missionary in Japan
Published for the British Academy By Oxford University Press, 1995. Cloth. Translated from its original Arabic and annotated by J McL. Ritchie in 1995. A very solid copy. Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 182 pgs. plus original Arabic text. More about The History of the Mazru 'i Dynasty of Mombasa
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY SWAMI AKHILANANDA on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of this 1946 early --but not 1st-- edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the panel edges and along the spine... More about Hindu Psychology: Its Meaning for the West
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1958. Cloth. A very solid copy of the 1958 1st English language edition, "translated from the Chinese with introduction and notes by Laurence Thompson". Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with light wear at the spine ends and very light... More about The One-World Philosophy of K'ang Yu-Wei
Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1999 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 236 pgs. More about Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the 'Abbasid Caliphate
Los Angeles: Falcon Press, 1987. Original Wraps. INSCRIBED BY TIMOTHY LEARY (in huge, loping letters) on the half-title. A sharp copy to boot of the 1987 3rd printing. Crisp and clean and VG+ in its pictorial wrappers. Tall octavo, 138 pgs. "A Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous... More about Info--Psychology (A Revision of Exo--Psychology
Paris: Les Editions Vega, 1951. Original Wraps. A clean, crisp copy of the 1951 1st French edition, IN A LOVELY EXAMPLE OF THE PUBLISHER'S PRINTED WRAPAROUND BAND. Solid and Near Fine in its glassine dustjacket. Octavo, 145 pgs. plus bibliography. Text in French. More about La Danse Hindoue
Cambridge University Press, 1992. 1st. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1992 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 313 pgs. More about Byzantiumand the Early Islamic Conquests
Columbia University Press, 1981. Cloth. A crisp, tight copy of the 1981 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Light pencil underlining by the former owner, a Vassar sinologist and professor of Chinese history. Octavo, 267 pgs. More about Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart
