Tel Aviv: Sinai Publishing, 1971. Metal bound with elaborate tactile decorations and turquoise, white, and red designs. [viii], 1586, [10] pp. Text in Hebrew and English. Very Good with a little tarnishing to metal, a few prelims and terminals creased along edges. A nice vintage Torah with an elaborate binding. More about The Holy Scriptures: A Jewish Bible According to the Masoretic Text
London: John Murray, 1837. Signed by Babbage "To Mrs. Davenport with the author's regards" on half title in ink; Edward Davies Davenport's bookplate on front endpaper. First edition. 240 (1, ads) pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with paper label on spine, light yellow endpapers. About Very Good with backstrip coming... More about The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise: A Fragment
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. First US edition. 235 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with slightly toned spine panel, else Near Fine. A very nice copy. More about Jesus
London: Printed for Thomas Northcott, 1691. Second edition. [181]-236 pp. Complete text but does not include Appendix: "Robert Barclay, His Vindication[...]" other copies were apparently bound with. Disbound with paper tape on spine. Very Good with slightly worn corners, small stains on last page and a small marginal checkmark there... More about The Anarchy Of the Ranters and Other Libertines, the Hierarchy Of The Romanists, and Others...
Paris: Johannem Anisson, 1698. First edition. (xxiv), 440 (7, Indiculus Locorum), (1) pp. Period speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut title page device, head and tail-pieces and initials. In Latin. Very Good with worn head and tail, small sliver of biopredation to front joint also effecting front free endpaper, joints starting... More about De Nova Quaestione: Tractatus Tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus...
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation. Later printing. Signed by Ram Dass on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Good. Covers creased and rubbed. Heavy creasing to top corners of roughly half the pages. Copies signed by the author are scarce. More about Be Here Now
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. One of only 15 hors de commerce copies matching the limited edition of 150. Signed by artist on the title-page and the printer, Andrew Hoyem, on the colophon. [64] pp. Illustrated with 29 woodblock prints. 11.5" x 15.25" Uncovered oak boards decorated with lightning-bolt... More about The Apocalypse: The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. The Last Book of the New Testament from...
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1915). First British edition. xi, 456 pp. Original scarlet cloth with gilt lettering. Some underlining and marginal notes in light, easily-erasable pencil, else Near Fine with name and date written on front free endpaper, slight sunning to spine. A milestone in the development of... More about The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. First edition. Warmly inscribed by author on front free endpaper, "For Morris [probably Morris Philipson, long time director of Univeristy of Chicago Press and novelist] & Suzy, a (too short!..) introduction in the most recent Romanian mythology affectionately, Mircea Eliade Chicago, Jan... More about The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
London: Printed for, and Sold by, the Author, 1790. Third edition, enlarged. Also the first single-volume edition. viii, [14, subscribers and contents, 1-20, [missing leaf], 23-180, [2], 181-359, [1, blank] pages. One folding plate, split along center fold with detached half laid in. Lacking frontispiece. Recent brick-red cloth; black leather... More about The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written...
London: Oxford University Press, 1927. First British edition. xliv, 248 pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. A little sunning to spine cloth, else Fine with bright, clean contents and sharp gilt. Lacking dust jacket. A very attractive copy. The first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist... More about The Tibetan Book of the Dead: or, The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to...
Boston: No Publisher, 1945. A collection of sermons bound by their former owner, one Olga Warburton. Apparently a one-of-a-kind book, privately-produced. No copies in OCLC. 220 pp. hand-numbered in pencil. Leather ruled and lettered in gilt. Warmly inscribed by Ferris to Warburton on front free endpaper and signed. Near Fine... More about Sermons 1944-1945
Paris: Fortune Press, [1930]. Limited edition. Copy #560 of 1,200. xvi, 243 pp. Original dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with a little wear at head, rubbing to cloth. Lacking jacket. An illustrated edition of the book first published in Latin in 1591 detailing the gruesome suffering of Christian martyrs. More about Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black paper covered boards over dark blue cloth spines, with titles on upper board and spine stamped in gilt. Very Good, with rubbing to covers at extremities, worn through at tips, small scuff to rear cover. Foxing... More about The Madman: His Parables and Poems
(No Place): The First Zen Institute of America in Japan, 1961. First edition. (One of only 500 copies printed. McNeil A5) 56pp. Japanese square-sewn brown wrappers. A Good or better copy. Typical writing in margins, perhaps more so than in other copies, with rear blank filled with written explanation of... More about The Wooden Fish: Basic Sutras & Gathas of Rinzai Zen
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. 41 pp. Paper-covered boards with paper label. Very Good with sunned spine, bumped corners. British scientist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane looks at the apocalypse in this neatly-designed, uncommon little book. More about The Last Judgment: A Scientist's Vision of the Future of Man (THINGS-TO-KNOW SERIES
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing... More about A Physician's Counsels to His Professional Brethren by A Practicing Physician
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. First British edition, first printing. Publisher's grey-green cloth binding with paper title label on spine. Good. Sunning and rubbing to cloth, with heavy bumping to the tail of the spine and associated short splits to the joints there. Pages toned. First blank is heavily... More about The Varieties of Religious Experience
Philadelphia: Christian Education Press, 1959. First edition. 34 pp. Green cloth with black lettering. Very Good in Very Good original dust jacket, unclipped ($1.00), with rubbing, bottom edge of front panel creased, wear, and edge-toning. Slight waviness to front free endpaper. The uncommon first book publication of MLK's sermons. These... More about The Measure of a Man
Millbrook, NY: League for Spiritual Discovery (Kriya Press of the Sri Ram Ashrama), 1967. 27 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original stapled wraps; illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good, with light toning and light soiling to wraps, rubbing to spine fold at top, corners bent... More about Start Your Own Religion
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First edition. xxxvii, 377 pp. with black and white photo section. Blue cloth and gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine panel, worn along edges. The companion volume to Seven Storey Mountain. More about The Waters of Siloe
Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1959. First edition. Copy #1 of 50 copies signed and numbered by Thomas Merton on the front free endpaper. [ii], 36, [1, colophon] pp. Original blue-gray boards. Plain white wraps over slightly-stained very good dust jacket, book itself near fine with a few reading smudges. Printed by Victor Hammer. More about What Ought I To Do?: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, from the Collection in Migne's Latin Patrology
New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968. First edition. ix, 141 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with very faint stain near spine panel, unclipped. A bit of rubbing to spine lettering and faint discoloration of cloth. A very neat, clean copy of... More about Zen and the Birds of Appetite
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Inscribed by author on title page to former owners "with affectionate regards [signed] Reinhold Niebuhr." First edition. xi, 306pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Some inked marginal notes and underlining, bumped corners. In unclipped Very Good dust jacket with some edge wear and slight... More about Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History
New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1909. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine... More about Vedanta in Practice