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THE MORNING STAR: NEW AND SELECTED ZEN WRITINGS.

By: Aitken, Robert.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, D.C., (2003), Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 12820

288 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover with self-flaps. "The introduction to this volume offers Robert Aitken's latest presentation of Zen practice, addressing the great matter from a historical and personal perspective. This wonderful, long piece is followed by twenty-nine essays, gathered into three sections: 'The Basics', 'Commentaries', and 'Reflections'. Aitken has selected some works from his previous books and added much new material never before available in book form. The resulting capstone becomes a book to cherish and study for all people interested in the spiritual path." Interior - ...
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A DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS. WITH A COLLECTION OF MAXIMS, PHRASES, PASSAGES, POEMS AND ANECDOTES FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE.

By: Baz, Petros D.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1963

Seller ID: 21918

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

169 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H). "The product of many years' preparation, this volume is divided into two sections. The first, which gives the book its distinct flavor, is a concise anthology of quotations, phrases, anecdotes and poetic passages from both ancient and modern literature. The second section is a complete compendium of proverbs, aphorisms, homilies and wise sayings from nine languages. The collection is as amazingly diverse as it is astonishing in its demonstration of the profound similiarity of the ideas of the great and near-great thinkers of history." Interior - minor browning to pag...
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JOURNEY TO MINDFULNESS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BHANTE G.

By: Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. With Jeanne Malmgren.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Wisdom, Boston, (2003), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 12821

262 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. "Bante G., as he is affectionately called - has long been among the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West. Ordained at twelve, he would eventually become the first Buddhist chaplain at an American university, the founder of a retreat center and monastery, and a bestselling author. Here, Bante G. lays bare the often-surprising ups and downs of his seventy-five years, from his boyhood in Sri Lanka to his decades of sharing the insights of the Buddha, telling his story with the 'plain-English' approach for which he is so renowned." Interior - clean and ti...
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THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exist in the...
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ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. JANUARY 1956. VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 5.

By: Campbell, John W., Jr., ed. (Algis Budrys; Theodore Sturgeon, Everett B. Cole, Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, P. Schuyler Miller). Cover art by van Dongen.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Street & Smith, New York, 1955.:

Seller ID: 11640

162 pp, soft cover (digest size), stapled inside wraps. B&w illustrations by Freas, Rogers and van Dongen. Contents: The Executioner by Algis Budrys; Won't You Walk- by Theodore Sturgeon; Indirection by Everett B. Cole; Under Pressure by Frank He rbert (Conclusion); Labor of Love (article) by Murray Leinster; The Editor's Page; In Times To Come; The Reference Library by P. Schuyler Miller. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - mainly on spine. VG
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THE JAPANESE ART OF WAR: UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURE OF STRATEGY.

By: Cleary, Thomas.

Price: $12.95 USD

Publisher: Shambhala, Boston, 1991, Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 14583

126 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai have dominated Japanese culture for centuries, virtually to the present day. According to Thomas Cleary - translator of more than twenty-five classics of Asian philosophy - the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the manners and mentality of this outlook remain embedded in their individual and collective consciousness..." Contents: Introduction; A Martial History of Japan; Zen in Japanese History; Bushido and Martial Arts; The Way of the Ze...
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BUDDHIST-SUTTAS. TRANSLATED FROM THE PALI. THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST VOL. II.

By: Davids, T.W. Rhys. F. Max Muller, editor.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass: 1989

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 25024

ISBN: 8120801121

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H) - burgundy boards with gold lettering and banding on spine. Contents: General Introduction to the Buddhist Suttas; The Book of the Great Decease (Maha-parinibbana Suttanta); The Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness (Dhamma-Kakka-ppavattana Sutta); On Knowledge of the Vedas (Tevigga Suttanta); If he should desire (Akankheyya Sutta); Barrenness and Bondage (Ketokhila Sutta); Legend of the Great King of Glory (Maha-Sudassana Suttanta); All the Asavas (Sabbasava Sutta); Index; Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the...
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NORTHROP FRYE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES.

By: Denham, Robert D. (Northrop Frye.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28208

ISBN: 0802026303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

449 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Northrop Frye was one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century. His output was prodigious: his publications include thirty-eight books and monographs, nearly 300 essays and articles, and some 15 reviews and miscellaneous pieces. His reputation is international: he has been the subject of numerous books, a forthcoming biography, and thirty doctoral dissertations from universities as far-flung as Freiburg, Oxford, and Texas. With this bibliography, the massive body of work by and about Frye is now made readily accessible for the first time. More than 2500 ...
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INSTRUCTIONS AU CUISINIER ZEN: TENZO KYOKUN / CORPS ET ESPRIT: D'APRES LE SHOBOGENZO / LA PRESENCE AU MONDE. 3 VOLUMES.

By: Dogen. Books 1 & 2: Textes choisis et traduits du japonais par Janine Coursin. Book 3: Textes traduits et presentes par Vera Linhartova.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Le Promeneur / Editions Gallimard: 1994

Seller ID: 29226

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

1. Instructions au cuisinier zen - ISBN 2070739945 - 71 pp. Avant-propos; Instructions au cuisinier zen; Propos de cuisiniers (Chia-shan Shan-hui 805-881 [Kassan Zenne] / Kuei-shan Ling-yu 771-853 [Isan Reiyu]); Plaisirs de table. 2. Corps et Esprit - ISBN 2070751007 - 150 pp. Avant-propos; Introduction (Le "Shobogenzo" / La dialectique de Dogen); Presentatiion de Dogen par Keizan Jokin; Le zen de Dogen; Corps et esprit; L'essence de la Voie; Les embuches de la Voie; Notes. 3. La presence au monde - ISBN 2070735190 - 80 pp. Dogen ou la presence au monde; Le temps d'une presence (Uji); L'i...
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PHILOSOPHER OF EVIL: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE.

By: Drummond, Walter. (pseud. of Robert Silverberg.) (Marquis de Sade.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Evanston, Illinois, Regency: 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8592

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

158 pp, 7" H. "Man or monster? What drove this Eighteenth Century nobleman to pen the works that made the name De Sade forever infamous? His life was a sorry record of imprisonment for the terrible deeds he perpetrated. But what of his books? Revolutionist, gaolbird, sentenced to die - reprieved, imprisoned again - and yet, also a Chief Justice finally deposed by the French Revolution because he was 'too humane' - what was he trying to say to the world? Was he, in embracing all Evil, hopefully testing the power and validity of Good? In this brand new biographical analysis of the Marquis...
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A FLOATING LIFE: THE ADVENTURES OF LI PO. AN HISTORICAL NOVEL.

By: Elegant, Simon. (Li Po.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Hopewell, New Jersey, Ecco Press: 1997

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 22693

ISBN: 0880015594

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

312 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "History and legend brilliantly combine in Simon Elegant's bawdy 'autobiographical' account of China's famed rabble-rousing versemaker Li Po. (A) magnificent portrayal of a critical time in China's history and the life of a literary legend. Nearly thirteen hundred years after the fact, Simon Elegant's scrupulously researched novel captures the essence of the eccentric bard of spontaneous verse in fullest splendor and bravado." Minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling.
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A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST. VOLUME IV. EMERGING FEMINISM FROM REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR. (GENERAL EDITORS: GEORGES DUBY AND MICHELLE PERROT.)

By: Fraisse, Genevieve and Perrot, Michelle, eds. (Dominique Godineau, Elisabeth Sledziewski, Nicole Arnaud-Duc, Stephane Michaud, Michela de Giorgio, Jean Bauberot, Nancy Green, Francoise Mayeur, Anne Higonnet, Yvonne Knibiehler, Judith Walkowitz, et al.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap / Harvard University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 23476

ISBN: 0674403738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

640 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Volume IV only. B&w illustrations. "With its Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, the French Revolution opened a whole new stage in the history of women, despite their conspicous absence from the playbill. The coming century would see women put in their place as never before, their subordination to men codified in all manner of new laws and rules; and yet the period would also witness the birth of feminism, the unprecedented emergence of women as a collective force in the political arena. The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distan...
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CARTESIAN SONATA AND OTHER NOVELLAS.

By: Gass, William H.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998, First edition.:

Seller ID: 15589

274 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "...four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represented by a housewife who is a modern-day Cassandra. And Matter is, what (and who) else but the helpless and confused husband of Mind. In the novella that follows, the concept of salvation is explored through material possessions - a collection of kitsch - as a traveling salesman is slowly lost in the sheer surfeit of matter in a small Illinois town. In...
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THE RIGANTE SERIES. FIRST 3 VOLUMES. 1. SWORD IN THE STORM. 2. MIDNIGHT FALCON. 3. RAVENHEART. 3 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

By: Gemmell, David A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Corgi:

Seller ID: 30503

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good+

First three volumes of the 'Rigante' series - 7" H. 1. Sword in the Storm - 478 pp, 1999, ISBN 0552142565. "Deep in the green mountain lands of the Rigante lies the settlement of Three Streams, whose people worship the gods of Air and Water, and the spirits of the Earth. Among them lives a boy whose destiny is written in starlight. He in Connavar, the Demonblade, born in a storm that doomed his father. A man with the making of greatness will always have enemies and from the start of this epic chronicle it is prophesied that the Armies of Stone will one day cross the water - and that their com...
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NIGEL COATES: BODY BUILDINGS AND CITY SCAPES. (CUTTING EDGE SERIES.)

By: Glancey, Jonathan. (Nigel Coates.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, New York, (1999).:

Seller ID: 11103

64 pp, square 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0823012115 Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos and drawings. "...examines the philosophy and design thinking of one of today's most innovative architect-designers; includes a detailed examination of Coates's key projects and inspirations; presents 150 color photographs, sketches, and drawings, some of them published here for the first time; provides a chronology of career and milestones; features designs for buildings, furniture, and exhibitions, including work for the Millennium Dome 'Body'." Fine/Fine
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THE GREAT NEW GOLF COURSES OF CANADA.

By: Gordon, John.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Warwick: 2006

Seller ID: 25067

ISBN: 1894622820

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

213 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with color photographs. "(Examines) thirty-four of the best courses built (in Canada) since 1990. Each course is given a lavish six-page treatment that includes gorgeous photos of the best holes and a 900-word essay on its history, design philosophy, and toughest hole descriptions. The result is an ideal gift for the avid golfer." Contents: The Algonquin; Andersons Creek Golf Course; Bear Mountain Golf & Country Club; Bigwin Island Golf Club; Blackhawk Golf Club; Dakota Dunes Golf Links; Dundarave; Eagles Nest Golf Club; Club de Golf le Fountain...
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THE ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM.

By: Gracian, Baltasar. Adapted from the translation by Joseph Jacobs. Introduction by Willis Barnstone.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Shambhala: 2004

Seller ID: 30446

ISBN: 1590301412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

185 pp, 7" H. Integral ribbon bookmark. "This perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, the teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal concerns such as friendship, morality, effective leadership, and how to manage one's emotions. (This book) is for anyone seeking to combine ethical behavior with worldly success." Minor wrinkle at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling at top/...
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THE SCHOOL OF FEMININITY. A BOOK FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN AS THEY ARE INTERPRETED THROUGH FEMININE WRITERS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY.

By: Greene, Margaret Lawrence.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson: 1972

Edition: First Canadian Edition

Seller ID: 28861

ISBN: 0773700072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

382 pp, 8 3/4" H. 6 b&w illustrations. "As provocative and challenging as when it was first published in 1936, (this book) traces the development of female thought as reflected by the creative imagination of writers from Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen to Pearl Buck and Virginia Woolf. With superb balance of reason and passion, the author probes the minds and hearts of her fellow creatures. She assesses their feeling towards their existence as women and examines their reactions to the role society expects them to fulfil." Contents: Part I. The Nineteenth-Century School of Femininity. W...
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APULEIUS AND HIS INFLUENCE.

By: Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton, PhD.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27544

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

190 pp, 12mo (7 5/16" H), blue cloth with lettering and Greek key pattern in gold on spine. B&w illustrations. Chapter headings: Presenting Apuleius; The Age of the Antonines; The Life of Apuleius; The Writings of Apuleius; Apuleius in the Middle Ages; Apuleius the Writer of Romance from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century; The Most Pleasaunt and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupide and Psyches (Done in English); The Story of Cupid and Psyche in Art; Ave Atque Vale; Notes; Bibliography. One of the "Our Debt to Greece and Rome" series. Previous owner's name and date on free front ...
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KIERKEGAARD AND THE TREACHERY OF LOVE. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RELIGION AND CRITICAL THOUGHT 9.

By: Hall, Amy Laura. (Soren Kierkegaard.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 2002).:

Seller ID: 13101

222 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H), soft cover. "This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. Amy Laura Hall explores Kierkegaard's description of love's treachery, difficulty, and hope, reading his 'Works of Love' as a text that both deciphers and complicates the central books in his pseudonymous canon: 'Fear and Trembling', 'Repetition', 'Either/Or', and 'Stages on Life's Way'. In all of these works, the characters are, as in real life, complex and incomplete, and the conclusions are perplexing. Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being, and her interpretation is as much abou...
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Keyword: Philosophy