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1940ref. 010639Boston: The Christopher Publishing House 1940. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page - " To my old boyhood friend Chancellor Frank H. Dodge with best wishes from the author Gus Fulk Little Rock Ark. Feb. 27 1940." Dodge was Chancellor of Chancery Court in Pulaski County Arkansas. Laid in is a TLS from Little Rock attorney C. H. Moses to Dodge gifting him a different book. Augustus Marion Fulk 1878-1954 was a prominent attorney and a circuit court judge in Little Rock Arkansas. Black satin cloth covered boards with gilt lettering gilt rules and design to front and spine. Top page edges dyed light orange. Illustrated. Frontispiece of "The Universe". Near Fine. Minimal rubbing to edges small corner bumps. SCARCE especially so SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. . The Christopher Publishing House Hardcover books
2000ref. 167432London: London Gallery 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Text in English and Japanese. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Okura Museum from November 2 through December 24 2000 in collaboration with London Gallery. Fine with no dust jacket as issued in publisher's about Fine paper slipcase. London Gallery unknown books
ref. 010568New York : Pantheon Books 1973. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To Evie and Anyas with love from its author - Alan." A warm and personal inscription suggesting a close personal friendship. First Edition First Printing with Pantheon a division of Random House adopting the Random House First Edition statement with number row running from 2 to 9. Near Fine small scuffs bottom edge of page block sunning at edges of boards in a Near Fine dust jacket narrow 1/2" chip top edge rear panel. Laid in is a single page Bulletin from The Society for Comparative Philosophy Inc. announcing the death of Alan Watts. Watts was the founder and President of the SCP. Coffee cup stain to the bulletin. Alan Watts last book published in his lifetime SCARCE Signed. . Pantheon Books Hardcover books
1960ref. 007060Thailand 1960. Book. Near Fine. No Binding. 12 1/2" h x 16 1/2" W. Original dark green oblong cloth photograph album 12 1/2" h x 16 1/2" W tied with green laces cover title "Photographs" in gilt and gilt embossed mandala center of front cover internal title "Art Objects in the Touring Exhibition of Thai Arts in the United States of America". No date no place circa 1960. Contains 313 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white photographs each individually numbered and labelled mounted on black album pages with gilt corner mounts representing a touring exhibition that opened in 1960. at the Indiana University Art Museum and coincided with the first official visit to the United States of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Near Fine 2 photos missing 6 blank pages at end photos mounted both sides of page with tissue guards in between. hardcover books
1987ref. 006901Ahmedabad India: Navajivan Publishing House 1987. Book. Near Fine. Paper Covered Boards. 4th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Copyright page states "First Edition July 1949 5000 copies. Fourth Reprint April 1987 2000 Copies. Total 18000 Copies". Quite SCARCE in a dust-jacketed early printing. Near Fine prior owner name city and date front end page slight toning to end pages in a Very Good dust jacket 1" triangular chip top edge front panel 1/2" chip at head of spine. Navajivan Publishing House Hardcover books
1909ref. 006662London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1909. Book. Near Fine. Half-Leather. Fourth Impression. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SCARCE. Handsomely bound in half-leather and orange cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine 624 pp. Near Fine a few spots light soiling to edges of page block. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
1965ref. 006465Monuments Serica 1965. Book. Near Fine. Pamphlet. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE. Reprint from Monumenta Serica Vol. XXIV 1965. Near fine slight soiling rear cover. Paginated 207-272. Addenda sheet laid in. Monuments Serica Paperback books
1817ref. 2238Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe 1817. First edition. contemporary morocco over marbled boards. Very Good. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. "Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale Paris 1817. ". Ozeray's book represents a landmark in the history of the Western discovery of Buddhism. Published three years after the establishment of Europe's first academic chairs for indology and sinology and just before the organized academic study of Buddhist texts began Ozeray's reliance on images and reports by embassies and European residents in Asian countries rather than missionary literature marks a watershed as does the author's firm advocacy of a single historical founder his unwillingness to engage in etymological and mythological flights of fancy and his insistence on Buddhism's status as the largest of all religions of the Orient or even of the entire world. Though the book did not reach a large pan-European readership it was read by intellectuals interested in Buddhism such as the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Europe's first professor of Sinology Abel-Rémusat and the linguist Julius Klaproth. Klaproth and Abel-Rémusat were around the time of publication expressing increasing interest in Buddhism and its history. Both were involved in the birth of France's earliest Orientalist journal the Journal Asiatique which from the early 1820s became one of Europe's most important sources of information about Buddhism. Ozeray's book thus stands near the end of the mythological speculation period and near the beginning of organized research on Asia's greatest religion" Urs App The First Western Book on Buddhism and Buddha. Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe 1817. Octavo contemporary half-morocco marbled boards and endpapers. Complete with half-title. Some scuffing to binding small closed tear to half-title. Text in outstanding condition with large margins. SCARCE. Chez Brunot-Labbe unknown books
1961ref. 161678Colombo: The Bauddha Sahitya Sabha by arrangement with OUP 1961. xii 215p. publisher's ad leaf first issue of this third edition gilt-titled clothbacked printed boards; casing is slightly rolled and cloth spine is heavily "silverfished" i.e. find scattered losses of sizing to spine panel faint soil to cover binder's paste-creep has browned the free endsheets. An else sound clean copy. "The present edition does not make any noticeable changes in the text apart from supplying a number of untraced references and rectifying some instances of incorrect spelling. The synopses of chapters have been deleted." Wijesekera adds that "To those who would regard Buddhism as merely one of the so-called 'organized religions' Dr. Tachibana" gives a vigorous noogie. The Bauddha Sahitya Sabha (by arrangement with OUP) unknown books
2005ref. 40358NY:: Norton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0393059065 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Norton, hardcover books
1969ref. 1363274Tokyo: Academic Press of Japan 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Large quartos. Very good in Fair slip case. Vol. 1 bound in gold cloth with black titling in Chinese on spine; Vol. 2 in red paper wraps with black titling in Chinese to front wrap. Slip case age-toned with clear packing tape to all joints. Bindings lightly bumped; text blocks and plates lightly age-toned. Text in Japanese and English. Contents: Vol. 1: 8 262 12 pages. Vol. 2: Folio of loose plates including 1 large folding plate a plastic folder of diagrams on onionskin paper labeled A-1 through I-7 and loose black and white photographic plates labeled A-1 through I-8. SH consignment. This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. 1363274. Special Collections. Academic Press of Japan hardcover books
1969ref. 24691London, Luzac & Company Ltd., 1969. Volume I and II complete. - Reprint of the fist edition (1963). LVII, 324; X, 327 S. 8°, OPb.
1962ref. 24692London, Luzac & Company Ltd., 1962. Reprint of the second edition (1928). XI, 466 S 8°, OPb.
1959ref. 2407100222xbvkKyoto/Japan, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1957-1959. Overall ~2.100 pages. - 4 Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-bindings in 3 publ. slipcases (Vol. 3 and Index-Vol. in 1 slipcase); 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 17 cm; ca. 5 kg.).
1964ref. 2407100220xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1964. 889 (1) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-binding in the publ. slipcase; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 5 cm; ca. 2 kg.).
1965ref. 2407100221xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1965. 20 p., pages 883-1.825 (1) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-binding in the publ. slipcase; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 5 cm; ca. 2 kg.).
1960ref. 2407100218xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1960. 887 (2) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-binding in the publ. slipcase; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 5 cm; ca. 2 kg.).
1965ref. 2407100219xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1964/1965. 20, 1.825 (2) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-bindings in the publ. slipcases; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 10 cm; ca. 3,5 kg.).
1954ref. 2407100213xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1954. 383 (1) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-binding in the publ. slipcase; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 2 cm).
1960ref. 2407100214xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1954/1960. 120 (1) / 178 (1) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-bindings in the publ. slipcases; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 4 cm; ca. 2 kg.).
1958ref. 2407100217xbvkKyoto, Jimbunkagaku Kenkyusho Kyoto University, 1958. 48, 180 (1) pages. - Publisher's gilt titled orange-colour cloth-binding in the publ. slipcase; 4to.(ca. 26 x 19 x 2,5 cm).
1876ref. 1908210711xbvkAmsterdam, C. G. van der Post, 1876. 32 (14) pages. - Black halfcloth-binding around 1900 with brown-marbled panels and cloth-corners; 4to.(ca. 31 x 23 cm; 0,338 kg.).
1992ref. 1102190483xbvkKyoto, 1992. 138 pages, partly-colour illustrated throughout; Publisher's colour-illustrated softcover; 4to.(ca. 30 x 21 cm).
2004ref. 58874ABFrankfurt/M, O. W. Barth Verlag im S. Fischer Verlag, 2004. 8° (22x14), 479 S., Oln mit OU, 14. Aufl. geringe Lesespuren, sauber und wohlerhalten,
1931ref. OKKU1303Berlin-Frohnau, Neu-Buddhistischer Vlg. (Paul Dahlke) (1931). 60 S., 1 Front., OKart., Gebrauchsspuren. Vorderdeckel bestemp.
