DORIS LESSING: A Bibliography of her First Editions.
Wellingborough: Metropolis, 1984. Limited edition of 255 copies of which this is number 113. In wraps as issued; FINE CONDITION in mylar sleeve. Portrait of Lessing as frontispiece. Octavo.
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ON THE COMPOSITION OF IMAGES, SIGNS, & IDEAS.
New York: Willis, Locker & Owens, 1991. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Premium Cloth Copy in a fine Mylar jacket as issued. Translated by Charles Doria from the original 1591 Frankfort edition. Edited and annotated by Dick Higgins. Foreword by Manfredi Piccolomini. 377 pages. Royal octavo.
INARI: Its Origin, Development, and Nature.
Tokyo: Tyo Bun Kwan (for the Asiatic Society of Japan), 1935. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Second Series, Vol. XII. Ex libris with minimal markings; VERY GOOD or better copy with illustrations. Inari is the chief agricultural deity of Japan. 8vo. 191 pages.
THE TWILIGHT LANGUAGE: Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism.
London: Curzon, 1986. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. 233 pages. Octavo.
EGYPTIAN RELIGION: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life.
University Books, 1959. Facsimile of the 1900 London edition. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. With a new introduction and additional illustrations. Small 8vo. 224 pages.
EGYPTIAN RELIGION: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life.
New York: Bell Publishing, 1989. Facsimile of the 1900 London edition with new introduction and additional illustrations. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. Small 8vo. 224 pages. Illustrated.
FROM FETISH TO GOD IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
NY: Benjamin Blom, 1972. Facsimile of the London, 1934 edition. FINE cloth volume, sewn and archival; no dust jacket issued. 240 Illustrations and plates. Contains much of his finest work. [xii], 545 pages, indexed. Royal Octavo.
HERB-DOCTORS AND PHYSICIANS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.
Chicago: Ares, 1978. In quality wraps as issued; A VERY GOOD+ COPY without marking or defect. Illustrated. 96 pages, indexed. 8vo.
THE ENGLISH MYSTICS.
London: Michael Joseph, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Blake frontispiece; Mylar protector; A FINE CLOTH COPY. 239 pages, indexed. Octavo.
THE DREAM OF SCIPIO. Studies in the Hermetic Tradition.
Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1983. First Edition. In quality wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Introduction by Robert Temple. 88 pages, 8vo.
A STRANGE STORY. A Novel of Witchcraft & Magic.
Chicago, Rand, McNally, & Co., no date. Spine slightly dull; internals clean and free of marking; top edge gilt; half tone frontispiece; A VERY GOOD+ or better cloth volume. 537 pages. Octavo.
ANCIENT MYSTERY CULTS.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. Quality text paper edition; A FINE COPY. [ix], 181 pages, indexed. 8vo.
A CELEBRATION OF THE LIGHT: Zen in the Novels of Neil Gunn.
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1988. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine pictorial dust jacket. 188 pages. Tall 8vo.
PERCUSSIVE WELL-BEING: The Healing Drum.
Thame: IHO Press, 2001. FIRST EDITION. In quality wraps with two color title page; A FINE COPY. Signed by publisher, A.R. Naylor, on half title. 53 pages.
THE GENESIS OF EZRA POUND'S CANTOS.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. In sewn academic wraps; A FINE COPY. 332 pages with index. Octavo.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY with internals free of marking and deckled edges. Splendid work on cults and heresies throughout the world from the Aryan and Dravidian cults of India through Greek thought and the Chaldeans to a very thorough survey of the Dualist opposition.....
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Some pulling at top of spine (repaired); light foxing on the end papers; internals free of marking; paper crisp and fine with edges left deckled; A VERY GOOD+ or better copy in original publisher's red cloth. Splendid work on cults and heresies throughout the.....
THE ZEN MONASTIC EXPERIENCE: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea.
Princeton University Press, 1992. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in dust jacket. With sixteen plates. 264 pages index, bibliography, & appendices. Royal 8vo.
ART IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: A Handbook of Styles and Forms by Amiet, Pierre; Noblecourt, C.D.; Devaux, Marie-Joseph; Pasquier, A. & F. Baratte.
New York: Rizzoli, 1981. FIRST EDITION. [Printed by Hertig in Switzerland as per colophon]. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY with pictorial boards in original slip case. Glossary. 568 pages. Octavo.
HOW THE SHAMAN STOLE THE MOON: In Search of Ancient Prophet-Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991. FIRST EDITION. A FINE cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Well illustrated. 223 pages. Royal 8vo.
THE LAND OF THE CAMEL: Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia.
New York: Ronald Press, 1951. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME, being free of marking or defect. Illustrated with forty two plates. [x], 200 pages. Royal 8vo.
TO SQUARE WITH GENESIS: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapi.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. 198 pages with index. Study of the Wayapi Indians of northern Brazil's Amazonian rain forest, and their Shamanic ritual and magic. Octavo.
BAKSHEESH AND BRAHMAN: Indian Journal, 1954-1955.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. FIRST EDITION. Very good+ copy in nice dust jacket. 314 pages with index. The saga recounted by Campbell in this volume is quite telling. He says he went to India to find the ancient wisdom, but only found politics and patriotism. From this experience, he.....
THE MASKS OF GOD: Occidental Mythology.
New York: Viking Press, 1964. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. VERY GOOD cloth volume in rubbed dust jacket. 564 pages with index. Octavo.
THE RELIGION OF THE HEART: A Study of European Religious Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
University of South Carolina Press, 1991. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. [x], 218 pages. Tall 8vo.
