Boston: Nathan Haskell Dole, 1904. 8vo, quarter white cloth over brown paper boards, black titles, bevelled edges, 212pp. Boards chipped and faded to corners, toning to spine. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. The Delphic Edition of The Breviary Treasures (selections of the Koran in English), privately printed in a......
Harper & Brothers, 1959. 8vo, black textured paper boards, gilt titles, 62pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.00) toned and rubbed to panels, chipping and edge wear, ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. The first major publication of the 3rd century apocryphal Coptic text, attributed to the.....
The Truth Seeker Company. 8vo, tobacco buckram cloth, gilt titles, 103pp [v]. First thus. Undated, lacking dust jacket. Boards heavily faded and age darkened. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Series of essays on Christian doctrine as it relates to pagan and world religious mythologies. From the personal library of.....
Harper & Brothers, 1949. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 383pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.75) moderately rubbed to panels, short closed tear to rear panel. Slight spine slant, foxing and rubbing to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. First series of essays by the Zen Buddhist master, edited by Christmas.....
Weatherhill, 1982. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles stamped in blind, gilt decoration, 132pp. Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket (17.95) moderately rubbed and toned to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘Some stories, fables, parables, sermons, and prints with notes and commentaries’ selected from Japanese Zen masters. From the.....
Late E.J. Brill Ltd. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles, 118pp. Library bound softcover book with wrappers sewn into cloth, withdrawn copy from Columbia University. Board corners bumped, fraying to cloth at spine, chipping to preliminary pages. Library stamps to endpapers, pages gently marked in pencil. Binding firm. Anthropological study of.....
Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 8vo, brown cloth, black and gilt titles, 340pp. 1980 printing. Unpriced dust jacket mildly toned to rear panel and flaps. Contents clean, binding firm and square. The fourth volume by the philosopher of history in his monumental Order and History series, the Ecumenic Age refers.....
Stillman Publishing, 1908. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt titles, 471pp. Second edition, first thus, with introductory profiles of Andrew Jackson Davis and Emmanuel Swedenborg. Mild wear to edges of cloth, bumping to corners, faint discoloration to rear boards, faint foxing and toning to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. Esoteric book on.....
W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. Two volume set in slipcase. Super 8vos with dust jackets, 4000pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jackets. Contents clean, binding as new. Critical anthology containing sacred texts from the dix major world religions with scholarly commentary and notes. Volume I (Hindiusm, Buddhism, Daoism), Volume II.....
Partisan Review, 1950. 8vo, softcover wrappers, 139pp. Wrappers heavily toned, sunned. Contents clean, binding firm. Brief conjectures and observations on the state of religion in relationship to modern secular thought by a varied cast of novelists, poets and scholars, among them Marianne Moore, Allen Tate, Dwight Macdonald, Robert Graves, John.....
Cornell University Press. 8vo, orange buckram cloth, black and red titles, 276pp. Stated second printing, 1981. Unpriced dust jacket with faint creases to edges, small chips and a short closed tear to rear panel. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A major monograph by the medieval and religious studies scholar.....
Cornell University Press, 1993. 8vo, red cloth, black titles, 296pp. First Edition. Unpriced dust jacket moderately rubbed to panels, toned to flaps. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Academic study of the medieval clamor, or church sanctioned cursing of enemies used by medieval monastic communities between 900 and 1250. A......
Coombe Springs Press, 1983. 8vo, softcover wrappers, 70pp. Wrappers ever so gently worn at edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. First English language edition of a comparative religious study on the concept the ‘Lord of the World’ or figural manifestation of the activity of God on Earth within the.....
Sheed and Ward, 1957. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 133pp. First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket with a closed tear to front flap edge, loss to spine crown and tail, toning to rear panel. Ownership stamping to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A three part essay on the.....
The Anthroposophic Press, 1988. 8vo, blue softcover wrappers, gilt titles, 192pp. Stated fourth edition. Wrappers moderately toned with a few small soil marks present to front wrap. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Exegetical studies and essays on the Gospel of John by the esoteric philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy.....
Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1969. 8vo, blue grey buckram cloth, blue titles, 241pp. First edition. Ex library copy with sticker residue to endpapers, stamping to text block. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression.’ Discusses the numerology of astrology.....