Rajneeshpuram, OR: [Unknown], 1984. 24 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with rusted staples, faint diagonal crease and slight soiling to front wrap. A program for the third annual festival at the Oregon religious community Rajneeshpuram, with seven days of workshops and activities listed, photos, and lots of ads for a...... More
Atlanta, GA: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. 126 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Staples visible at front and rear inner hinges. Former owner notation to front paste down, crease and wear to front free end paper. Hinge at final page of text is..... More
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
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
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
[Boston]: The Massachusetts Colonization Society, 1857. First American edition. (Reprinted from the London edition of 1856.) Original saddlestitched wraps. 31, [1, note] pp. Very Good with small chip at head, light tidemark to upper left corner of margin, wraps a little soiled and edges slightly worn. This pamphlet is a...... More
[San Cristobal, New Mexico]: Lama Foundation, 1970. First edition. Signed by Ram Dass on the first page of the main book, and inscribed to a former owner. [ii], 108 pp. Brown paper sheets bound with twine, mandala label mounted on front cover; all supplements present except for the mailing box..... More
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
New York and London: Sheed & Ward. First edition. xxxvi, [2], 275 pp. Original grayish blue cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with name and bookstore label on front free endpaper, light dampstaining to spine, in Very Good dust jacket with sunned and slightly dampstained spine panel, chip near foot..... More
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
Rochester, NY: Press of C. W. Hebard, 1859. 23 pp. Bound in publisher's original grey printed wraps. Near Fine, with light wear and toning to wraps. Originally a Quaker group, the 1859 board members included abolitionists and Women's Rights activists such as Frederick Douglass, who served on the Business Committee..... More
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
London: Collins, 1967. First edition. xxv, 645 pp. Original cloth. Fine in bright, unfaded and unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear in top of front panel, light wear at head, Near Fine. An attractive copy. More
London: Harvill Press, 1960. First British edition. 256 pp. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with toned edges, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, spine a little darkened, small spot of sticker wear to front panel. More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1949. Second edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to a former owner, "With very good wishes to Louise Evans, [signed] W. Y. Evans-Wentz / Santa Barbara December 16, 1950." University of California professor D.M. Brown, who drove many times over the..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Third edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to "My brother on the path," Sri Deva Ram Sukul, an author and yogi. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. First edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to a former owner, Louise Evans. University of California professor D.M. Brown, who drove many times over the hills and canyons above Santa Barbara with a septuagenarian Evans-Wentz scouting property on which to build an ashram..... More
Chicago: Universal Publishing Co., 1924. First American edition. 128 pp. Yellowish orange cloth with navy lettering. Very Good+ with lightly worn tips, a bit of toning to cloth and age-toning to contents, lacking jacket. More
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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to covers, softening to corners and spine ends; spine faded with stamping rubbed. Previous owner name and date to front free end paper..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition, first printing. Very Good. Faint lean to spine. Cloth lightly rubbed at edges; spine faded and with a few spots. Large previous owner bookplate to front paste down; small vintage bookseller ticket to rear paste down. Pages toned. A nice copy, lacking..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited, 1950. First British edition, first printing. Ten books in Three Series, of which, this is the First Series. 1238 pp. Blue cloth over flexible boards with gilt lettering to spine; lacking the dust jacket. Covers rubbed at extremities and lightly creased; spine slightly darkened..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition. ix, [1], 1238 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine in an attractive example of the dust jacket, unclipped with light wear along edges. Gurdjieff's most best-known work. Gurdjieff International Review states "This translation was made under the personal direction of the..... More
(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
