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$45.00London: 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.$45.00London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (1965). First edition. v + 216 pp w/index. Very near fine in full blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Translated by Ralph Manheim.$25.00NY: Pantheon (1974). First printing of this new US edition. 342 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Originally published in 1948 with the title, “THE HISTORY OF MAGIC.$125.00London: Rider & Company (1959). First UK edition. xiv + 333 pp w/index of names & subjects. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dr. Herbert V. Guenther. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate.$35.00Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (1995). First edition. xvi + 347 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$45.00Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2003. First edition. xxi + 452 pp w/index. Fine in decorated full cloth. No dust jacket. Translated by Inagaki Hisao.$45.00NY: Oxford University Press (2010). First US edition. ix + 355 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.$35.00New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal (1984). First edition. xvi + 168 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by A.K. Warder. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate.$35.00Manchester: Carcanet (1993). First edition. vi + 302 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$45.00DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press (2009). First edition. ix + 295 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$85.00Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (1983). First edition. xxix + 385 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate.$250.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1982). First editions. xix + 491 pp w/index + xix + [370 pp]. Two volumes, both fine in very near fine dust jackets but for a small bump and tear to the lower rear corner of the second volume. For the pair:$125.00London: Oxford University Press, 1959. First editions. xv + 149 pp w/index & x + 188 pp w/vocabularies. Both volumes fine. The jacket of the first volume has a closed snag to the rear panel, the jacket of the second has a stray mark to the front panel, otherwise both are near fine. Part One: Introduction and Translation, Part Two: Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts. London Oriental Series Volume 6.$35.00Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, 1985. First edition. v + 407 pp w/list of works cited. Near fine in printed wrappers. Small bookseller label inside front cover. Preface by Craig J. Reynolds. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate on the title page.$45.00Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (2003). First edition. xviii + 244 w/notes & indexes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and translated by Vladimir Wozniuk.$45.00London: Dennis Dobson (1948). First edition. 213 pp w/bibliography. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small pale spots to front panel, and some toning to spine and extrems. Introduction by Pete Peter Zouboff.The Lotus of the Wonderful Law or The Lotus Gospel Saddharma Pundarika Sutra Miao-Fa Lien Hua Ching.
$45.00Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. First edition. xi + 275 pp w/index. Near fine in full green cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover. Tarn’s typical light pencil brackets to the text, there are pencil notes on the first three leaves that do not appear to be in NT’s hand. However, unlike in other volumes from his library, he did not feel compelled to indicate in the book that these were not his notes!$45.00Essex: Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, 1996. First edition. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$45.00Essex: Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist.< 1991. First edition. viii + 504 pp. Pages lightly toned, else fine in fine dust jacket with faint sunning along spine.$45.00Essex: Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, 2016. First edition. 367 pp w/index of bibliographical references. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$250.00London: Soncino Press (1956). Later printing. Five volumes. Offsetting and light foxing to endpapers, and light stains to top edge of most volumes, else all very good plus or better in very good dust jackets with the first volume being darkly toned to spine and rear panel with chips to spine, and most of the others having wear to base and crowns. Introduction by Dr. J. Abelson in the first volume. For the set:$50.00Dordrecht & Boston: D. Reidel (1973). First edition. viii + 125 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Sprung, with his introduction.$50.00Jordanville: Printshop of St. Job of Pochaev, Holy Trinity Monastery, 2000. Fourth printing (originally published in 1897). 558 pp. Very near fine in boards. No dust jacket. Translated by E.E. Goulaeff.$25.00Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967. First edition. xxiii + 142 pp w/index. Long non-authorial insription on the half-title page, else fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated and edited by Thomas Esper.$20.00Fairacres: SLG Press (1991). Ninth impression. 21 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers.$75.00NY: Oxford University Press (2007). Later printing. xii + 315 pp w/bibliography & indexes. Fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. A print-on-demand hardcover.$40.00Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1994). First edition. xii + 261 pp w/bibliography & indexes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$75.00NY: 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.$75.00Rangoon: Burma Buddhist World Mission [c 1950s]. First edition. 72 pp. Previous owner’s inked name and note on the first leaf. Very good plus in printed wrappers. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his pencil initials “EMM” = Edward Michael Mendelsohn. Uncommon.$40.00Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005). First edition. viii + 268 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in decorated boards. Lacks dust jacket.$40.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1992). First edition. xviii + 390 pp w/notes, glossary, bibliography, & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate.$25.00Berkeley: Shambala Publications (1970). First US edition. 231 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his light pencil marginalia.