END-TIME VISIONS: The Road to Armageddon?
NY/London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Replete with comparative tables and illustrations. 428 pages with index. Royal 8vo.
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THE PILGRIM'S WAY: Shrines and Saints in Britain and Ireland. Photographs by Peter Cheze Brown.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1978. FIRST EDITION. A Very Good+ cloth copy in dust jacket. 4to. 208 pages. With 169 Twenty color plates, two maps; 199 illustrations overall.
PRINTED WRITINGS BY GEORGE W. RUSSELL: A Bibliography. With Some Notes on his Pictures and Portraits.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1961. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume without marking or defect. Good reference work on the Irish poet and mystic, the friend of Yeats, and many other members of the Golden Dawn. Foreword by Padraic Colum. Twelve illustrations. 255 pages. Octavo.
THE WHIRLING ECSTASY. On Rumi.
Novato: Prophecy Pressworks, 1973. FIRST EDITION. Small custom monograph printed on colored paper with illustrations. A FINE COPY. Aflaki was a disciple of the grandson of Rumi and this small work is excerpted from a 14th century work. Considered by some to be the work of Rodney Collin. 12mo.
INVITATION TO AHMADIYYAT; Being a Statement of Beliefs, A Rationale of Claims and an Invitation, on Behalf of the Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation and Rejuvenation of Islam.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. FIRST EDITION. A FINE cloth copy in dust jacket. The Ahmadiyya movement was formed in 1889, and sought a return to the putrity of Islam. [xvi], 328 pages. Octavo.
THE TAWASIN OF MANSUR AL-HALLAJ.
Berkeley & London: Diwan Press, 1974. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY issued without jacket. Gilt Islamic device on front panel. 81 pages, plus book list. Octavo.
HINDU VIEW OF CHRIST.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Very good, tight cloth volume in chipped dust jacket. 291 pages, indexed. Introduction by Dr. Walter Muelder. One of the first comprehensive writings on the life of Christ from a Hindu perspective. Small octavo.
THE BOOK OF SUFI CHIVALRY: Lessons to a Son of the Moment.
NY: Inner Traditions, 1982. In quality wraps with colored calligraphic and illuminated panel; A FINE COPY. Tenth century Sufi classic translated into English for the first time. 121 pages. Octavo.
CORRESPONDING MOTION: Transcendental Religion and the New America.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. 210 pages with index. "On September 19, 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson and some of his friends gathered at the home of George Ripley for an evening of serious conversation. In addition to Emerson and Ripley, this.....
SUFISM FOR TODAY.
Alif Publishing, 1967. In wraps; Very Good or better volume. 215 pages.
ICASTES: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's Sophist.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION. FINE premium archival cloth copy in fine dust jacket. Includes an excellent bibliography of works cited. 317 pages with index. Tall octavo.
NUPTIAL ARITHMETIC: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Chapters are "Ficino's Commentary on the 8th Book of the Republic"; "Figured Numbers and the Fatal Number"; "Eugenics, the Habitus, and the Spirit"; and "Jupiter, the Stars, and the Golden Age", plus the.....
VLADIMIR SOLOVIEV: Russian Mystic.
Blauvelt, NY: SteinerBooks, 1978. FIRST EDITION. Quality trade paper edition; A FINE COPY. Illustrated. Excellent biography of one the lights of Russian orthodoxy in the early 20th century. 449 pages. Octavo.
A CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ ANTHOLOGY.
Blauvelt, NY: Spiritual Science Library, 1981. A FINE CLOTH COPY. Well illustrated particularly with Behmenist images. 644 pages, [ii]. Tall 4to.
MONARCHY: A Series of Papers Delivered to the Temenos Academy Published to Mark the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Temenos Academy, 2009. In premium wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Partial contents: Carey's "Ideal Kingship in Early Ireland'; Lindop's "The Wheel-Turning Monarch: An Ideal of Kingship in Early Buddhism"; Milne's "Shakespeare and Divine Kingship"; and Kathleen Raine's "Monarchy and the Imagination". Temenos Academy Papers 18. 122 pages. Tall octavo.....
THE LIFE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD.
New York: Viking Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Very Good+ copy in dust jacket. Royal Octavo. 466 pages.
JAPAN AND ZEN.
Cincinnati University Press, 1961. FIRST EDITION, signed. Illustrated boards; VERY GOOD+ copy, signed by Van Meter Ames on front free end paper.
A GROUP OF HINDOO STORIES, Collected and Collated.
London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1881. FIRST EDITION. Top of spine shows edge chipping; internal bright and free of marking; binding firm; custom end papers; A VERY GOOD CLOTH COPY with lined, decorated title panel. 158 pages. 8vo.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Vol. I: My Thirty Years' War: Beginnings and Battles to 1930. Vol. II: The Fiery Fountains: Continuation and Crisis to 1950. Vol. III: The Strange Necessity: Resolutions and Reminiscence to 1969. Three volumes.
NY: Horizon Press, 1969. A VERY GOOD+ three volume cloth set in used dust jackets. Anderson was among the group known as The Rope which was "tutored" by Gurdjieff in the Paris of the 1930's. A stimulating and wonderfully opinionated woman: an excellent read! See Patterson's "Ladies of the Rope".....
THE UNKNOWABLE GURDJIEFF.
London: Arkana Book, 1991. In wraps; Fine, unread copy. 212 pages. Dedicated to Jane Heap.
THE UNKNOWABLE GURDJIEFF.
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1977. In quality trade wraps; FINE COPY with slightly faded spine, but an unread copy. 212 pages. 8vo.
THE LITTLE REVIEW ANTHOLOGY.
New York: Hermitage House, 1953. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. VERY GOOD CLOTH VOLUME. 383 pages. Anderson's review that presented a new literature after World War I with the first appearance of Joyce and others. It was at the time that Anderson and others began a close association with Gurdjieff.
PLATONISM IN THE MIDWEST.
Philadelphia: Temple University, 1963. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ or better in dust jacket. Brings light to the work and relationships of K.S. Guthrie, Alexander Wilder, Hiram Jones and Thomas Johnson in the America of the mid-19th century, and the influence of Thomas Taylor on each. Octavo.
OPEN SECRETS: A Western Guide to Tibetan Buddhism.
New York: Viking, 1979. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in dust jacket. Kum-nye illustrations by Adele Aldridge. 230 pages with index. Octavo.
CHRISTIANOPOLIS: An Ideal State of the XVIIth Century.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1916. FIRST EDITION. Bookplate; A FINE CLOTH COPY. Frontispiece of Andrae under tissue. Translated from the Latin, with historical introduction, by Felix Emil Held. [xi], 287 pages, indexed. Octavo.
