Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy by Sekida, Katsuki; Edited by Intro by A.V. Grimstone - 1976

Santa Cruz: Hsien Taoist Monastery, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sold here as a collection are thirteen publications dealing with the teachings of contemporary Hsien Taoism. All were published by the Hsien Taoist Monastery in Santa Cruz, California from the period 1982 - 1986. All are first printings unless otherwise noted. All are in very good condition and are in stapled wrappered format. They include: The Inward Journey Volume 1 Number 1, Number 2, Number 3, Volume 2 Number 4 and #5, Volume 3 Number 1, The White Iris Volume III Number V, Volume IV Number !, The Healing Journey Volume 2 Number 5, Dragon-Fly Sparrow-Song (second printing from 1983), and Alpha Stress Reduction Training. All of these publications seemed to have a fairly limited print run and are now quite hard to locate.

Attractive Nouveau Prize PLATE 1906 on first end paper. V Good copy. 147pp plus ads, 240 grms, 19 x 13 cms.

New York: The Philosophical Library. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 498 pages. Index. Forty-nine black and white photos and illustrations. Map of India. Frontis portrait of author. "The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." - Dust jacket. "His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West." - Preface. Selected as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century" by a committee led by Philip Zaleski on behalf of HarperSanFrancisco. Included in the book "50 Spiritual Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Unmarked with moderate wear to beige publisher's cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Steve Jobs thought so… Read More

1656 1ed Gospel Harmony & Life of Jesus Christ Dutch Protestant Vossius Elzevier

Gerardus Vossius was a 16th-century Dutch classical theologian known for being one of the first to treat theological dogmas and non-Christian religions from a historical point of view, rather than the more accepted theological.

This 1656 Elzevier printing of 'Harmoniae Evangelicae de Jesu Christi' is a fine first edition describing the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Item number: #7402
Price: $499
VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes
Gerardi Joannis Vossii Harmoniae evangelicae de passione, morte, resurrectione ac adscensione Jesu Christi servatoris nostri libri tres.
Amstelodami: Apud L. et D. Elzevirios, 1656. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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References: Willems 1209; Goldsmid III, p. 71
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Provenance: Armorial Bookplate - Beilby Thompson of Escrick
o Beilby Thompson (1742 – 1799) was a British landowner and politician, who sat in the… Read More

Keiseisha, 1909. Green cloth hardcover with thread-tied binding. Used- Good condition. Book shows shelf wear. Light scuffing on the edges and corners. Small tear on the bottom right corner on the back cover. Slight creasing on the spine. Light pencil markings on pg. 2-8, 31, 173, 175-177. No further markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

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Attractive Nouveau Prize PLATE 1906 on first end paper. V Good copy. 147pp plus ads, 240 grms, 19 x 13 cms.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Lee Lozowick, 1975. Paperback. Used - very good condition. Book is clean and tight with some shelf wear and signs of age/use. Front cover is creased vertically along spine and about 1.25" from spine. Bottom corner of front cover is also creased. Light bumping at corners and edges. Back cover is tanned around edges and has dry residue from a sticker on the original price marking. Binding glue is visible at the top corner between title page and first page of text. No writing or highlighting. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Abdullah, Achmed. The Thief of Bagdad. Readers Library Publishing Co. Ltd., London Film Edition, 1924. USED. TONED. Good Condition/ Good- DJ. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET Front dj panel states "Film Edition" Actor Douglas Fairbanks photo on back panel. DJ Spine is chipped. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Summary: The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from "One Thousand and One Nights", it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad.