Click for full-size.
TIBET'S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA
by W. Y. Evans-Wentz
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good -/Good +
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1963. Second Edition. Hardback. Very Good -/Good +. Second Edition, Third Impression. Forest green cloth over boards with gilt particulars, decoration and two bands to spine; debossed rule to boards with gilt decoration to front board. Pages have tanning to margins, but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Text block is soiled; lower edge deckled. Binding cracked at frontispiece, but still holds. Boards are soiled with rubbing to edges, corners and ends of spine; corners and ends of spine bumped; sunning to spine with some tarnishing and rubbing to gilt. Binding is sound, spine is cocked. Dust jacket has light to moderate rubbing, creasing, closed tears and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine; open tear at fore edge of front cover; large chips at ends of spine; red pen mark to lower edge of front cover and price mark in pencil to front flap; sunning to spine. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64480
- Title
- TIBET'S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA
- Author
- W. Y. Evans-Wentz
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Metaphysical
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
This Book’s Categories
Michael Bond - the man behind Paddington Bear
“All the same ... it’s a very important name. And I don’t expect there are many bears in the world called Paddington!”
A lonely toy bear on an empty shop shelf on Christmas Eve in 1956 first captured the attention of Michael Bond, who kindly shared Paddington with the world.
Collecting Arkham House
Learn about collecting the iconic horror and fantasy publisher that produced books by the likes of Ray Bradbury, August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft.
