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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CATALOGUES: Ancient Teachings & the Inner Life of Man. Twenty Eight Volumes.
Aurora, OR; Morris, NY: Charlottesville, VA: David Kherdian, 1983-1991. A FINE SET, with only purchases [by JDH] circled. Of the first 29 issued, only Catalogue Three is missing. Each catalogue averages 32 pages with approximately 300 listings. Much on Gurdjieff, including many titles related to the Fourth Way, but not.....
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Volume II.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. 1968, Revised Edition. A FINE CLOTH COPY. [xlii] ,2516 pages. Square octavo.
BLAKE: A Biography.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First American Edition. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. 399 pages. Tall octavo.
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. Excellent reference work on the Irish poet and mystic, George Russell a/k/a AE, the friend of Yeats, and many other members of the Golden Dawn. Foreword by Padraic Colum. Compiled by Alan Denson. Twelve illustrations. 255.....
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.
A ZEN WAVE: Basho's Haiku and Zen,
Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1982. Quality trade paper edition; FINE. 191 pages. 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.
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.
CHTHONIC GNOSIS: Ludwig Klages and his Quest for the Pandaemonic All.
Munich: Theion Publishing, 2015. Limited to 720 copies only. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY with embossed vignettes on front and rear panels, headbands, and Smythe-sewn. Edited, with annotations, by David Beth. With eight gray-scale photographic reproductions. Klages was a driving force in a notorious Cosmic Circle of German mystics. He.....
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.....
THE PLATONISM OF MARSILIO FICINO: A Study of His Phaedrus Commentary, Its Sources and Genesis.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Continuation of Allen's excellent work on the Renaissance Platonists. 284 pages with index. Tall octavo.
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.
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. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp, 1888-1923), who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield, died at the young age of 34, from tuberculosis. Royal Octavo. 466 pages.
THE QUINTESSENTIAL CAT.
New York: Macmillan, 1994. FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. [xiv], 289 pages. Small 4to.
HOW TO BUY & SELL OLD BOOKS: A Primer Prepared by ALF Editors.
Watkins Glen, NY: ALF, 1965. In side-bound wraps as issued; VERY GOOD. Book lore a-plenty with sections on classifying lots, problems of pricing, study guides for booksellers, section on ephemera, trade codes, etc. 100 pages. Octavo.
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.
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+ CLOTH SET in slightly 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. Tall octavos.
THE UNKNOWABLE GURDJIEFF.
London: Arkana Book, 1991. In wraps; Fine, unread copy. 212 pages. Dedicated to Jane Heap. Octavo.
THE UNKNOWABLE GURDJIEFF.
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1991. In quality paper; Very Good. Dedicated to Jane Heap. 212 pages. Octavo.
