Vedanta for the Western World
by Christopher Isherwood [ed. & intro.]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; [viii],452pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a few scuffs to surface. Small dampstain visible on jacket interior at bottom front near spine, with front board showing a corresponding spot of fading to cloth. Boards otherwise lightly edgeworn, with nudging to spine ends and a few stray scuffs to cloth. Endpapers sparsely foxed and toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Anthology of works reprinted from Vedanta and the West magazine, with works largely by Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Swami Prabhavananda, with a few from Isherwood and a other authors scattered throughout.
[Westby & Brown p. 29].
Anthology of works reprinted from Vedanta and the West magazine, with works largely by Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Swami Prabhavananda, with a few from Isherwood and a other authors scattered throughout.
[Westby & Brown p. 29].
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11359
- Title
- Vedanta for the Western World
- Author
- Christopher Isherwood [ed. & intro.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Marcel Rodd
- Place of Publication
- Hollywood
- Date Published
- 1945
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