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    AIKEN, Robert.

    The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice.

    $40.00
    Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992. First trade edition. 76 pp w/index of occasions for practice. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some light foxing to page edges. Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh. SIGNED by Aiken on the title page.
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    AITKEN, Robert with Daniel W.Y. Kwok. trans.

    Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living.

    $30.00
    (np): Shoemaker & Hoard (2006). First edition. xiii & 224 pp w/glossary. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine.
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    AITKEN, Robert.

    A Zen Wave: Basho’s Haiku and Zen.

    $15.00
    Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard (2003). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1978). xxii + 154 pp w/notes. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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    BABA, Meher.

    Darshan Hours.

    $20.00
    Berkeley: Beguine Library (1973). First trade edition. 72 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Eruch Jessawala and Rick Chapman.
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    BABCOCK, Jon and Bhiksu Heng Ching (Steven Klarer), trans.

    Hsing An: Activate the Thought of Enlightenment.

    $150.00
    Montana Buddhist Association, 1978. First edition. 56 pp. Fine in printed paper covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Frontispiece illustration by Ralph Aeschliman. Binding designed and executed by Fenicia Burke. One of 40 copies printed by Clifford Burke on Twinrocker handmade paper.
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    BERRIGAN, Daniel with Lee Lockwood.

    Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations after Prison.

    $25.00
    NY: Random House (1972). First edition. xx + 227 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with small ink price on front flap.
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    BERRIGAN, Daniel.

    A Book of Parables.

    $20.00
    NY: Seabury/Crossroad (1977). Uncorrected proof. 140 pp. Faint toning along spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers.
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    BERRIGAN, Daniel.

    A Book of Parables.

    $25.00
    NY: Seabury/Crossroad (1977). First edition. 149 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is folded slightly off-center.
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    BLOCH, Ariel and Chana Bloch. trans.

    The Song of Songs: A New Translation.

    $20.00
    NY: Random House (1995). First printing of this edition. x + 253 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Afterword by Robert Alter. Translation by Ariel and Chana Bloch, with their introduction and commentary.
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  • The Buddha’s Law Among the Birds.
    CONZE, Edward.

    The Buddha’s Law Among the Birds.

    $45.00
    Oxford: Bruno Cassirer [c 1955]. First edition. 65 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by J. Bacot. Conze’s own translation from the original Tibetan, with his commentary. This is the first appearance of this text in English. Illustrated.
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    DASS, Baba Hari.

    The Yellow Book: The Sayings of Baba Hari Dass.

    $40.00
    San Cristobal: Lama Foundation (1973). First edition. Ninety 7 x 5 inch sheets with a wrap-round folder and publisher’s slipcase. Green sticker closure opened, cover toned, slipcase near fine.
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    DOUGLAS-KLOTZ, Neil.

    Desert Wisdom: Sacred Middle Eastern Writings from the Goddess Through the Sufis.

    $25.00
    San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco (1995). First edition. 266 pp w/texts cited & resource list. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translations and commentary by Douglas-Klotz.
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    EASWARAN, Eknath.

    A Meditation Manual.

    $25.00
    Berkeley: Blue Mountain Center of Meditation (1972). First edition. 16 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
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    FAST, Howard.

    The art of Zen Meditation.

    $25.00
    Culver City: Peace Press (1977). First edition. [46 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Fast on the first leaf.
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    GOLD, E.J.

    American Book of the Dead.

    $20.00
    San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1975. First revised printing. viii + 116 pp w/appendixes. Covers lightly rubbed, else near fine in printed wrappers. Foreword by John C. Lilly. The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Americans.
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    HANSEN, Ron.

    A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction.

    $20.00
    NY: HarperCollins (2001). First edition. 267 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with one short tear to front cover. Promotional flyers laid in.
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    INADA, Kenneth K.

    Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika with an Introductory Essay.

    $125.00
    Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1970. First edition. x + 204 pp w/glossary & bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tanning and two light droplet marks to spine.
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    MERTON, Thomas.

    Love and Living.

    $25.00
    NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1979). Uncorrected proof. 171 pp. Light diagonal crease to front cover, small smudge on front free endpaper, else near fine in tall printed wrappers.
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    MERTON, Thomas.

    The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.

    $25.00
    NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1989). First edition. xvi + 383 pp w/index. A bit of foxing to fore-edge, else fine in fine dust jacket.
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  • The Waters of Siloe.
    MERTON, Thomas.

    The Waters of Siloe.

    $75.00
    NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1949). First edition. 377 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Companion to THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, detailing the daily life of a monk.
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  • Abraham and Isaac.
    PITTS, J. Martin.

    Abraham and Isaac.

    $100.00
    Llandogo: Old Stile Press (1999). First edition. Oblong 8vo. [42 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Text from the fourteenth century Chester cycle of miracle plays, illustrated with linocuts by J. Martin Pitts. One of 220 numbered copies on Hahnemühle Ingres paper SIGNED by Pitts.
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    ROSENBERG, David and Harold Bloom.

    The Book of J.

    $45.00
    NY: Grove Weidenfeld (1990). Second printing. 340 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Rosenberg. Interpreted by Harold Bloom. SIGNED by Bloom.
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    SAYERS, Dorothy L.

    The Man Born to be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of our Lord and Saviour.

    $45.00
    London: Gollancz, 1943. First edition. 343 pp. Light foxing to lower fore-edge and bottom edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Dr., J.W. Welch. Production note by Val Gielgud.
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    SISSON, C.H.

    Is There a Church of England?

    $35.00
    Manchester: Carcanet (1993). First edition. vi + 302 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    STEINBERG, Leo.

    The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.

    $75.00
    NY: Pantheon (1983). First edition. 222 pp. Boards slightly bowed, else very near fine in like dust jacket. The first edition of Steinberg's controversial study of the representations of Christ's genitalia in Renaissance art and the theological implications of the insistent emphasis on his sexuality and masculinity. Handsomely illustrated with 250 black and white reproductions.
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    SUJATA, A.

    Beginning to See: a collection of epigrams about the problem of living and the freedom to be gained through the buddha’s insight meditation.

    $20.00
    Santa Cruz: Unity Press (1975). First revised edition. [96 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Pen art by Julie Wester.
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    SUZUKI, D.T.

    Buddha of Infinite Light.

    $25.00
    Boston & London: Shambhala, 1997. First printing of this revised edition. 95 pp w/notes & suggested reading list. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction and notes by Taitetsu Unno who revised this edition.
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    SUZUKI, Daisetz Teitaro. trans.

    The Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text.

    $25.00
    London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1966). Later printing. xlix + 300 pp w/appendix & fold out plates. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small hole to spine.
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    TAKAHASHI, Masanoubu.

    The Essence of Dogen.

    $35.00
    London, Boston & Melbourne: Kegan Paul International (1983). First edition. x + 90 pp w/indexes. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with sunned spine. Translated from the original Japanese by Yuzuru Nobuoka.
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    VISSER, Margaret.

    The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church.

    $25.00
    London: Viking (2001). First edition. 322 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    WALTERS, Donald writing as “Kriyananda.”

    The Singer and the Nightingale: A Tale of Awakening.

    $20.00
    San Francisco: Ananada Records and Publications (1968). First edition. 68 pp. Covers a bit dusty, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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    WATTS, Alan W.

    Zen Buddhisme: Een nieuwe schets en inleiding.

    $25.00
    Lochem: H. Buys, 1949. First printing of this edition. 28 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Text entirely in Dutch.
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