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.
A READER'S GUIDE TO THE GREAT RELIGIONS: An Annotated Bibliography,
New York: The Free Press, 1965. Ex-libris; no internal marking; firm, clean binding; Very Good reference volume. [xv], 364 pages. Tall 8vo.
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.
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.
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; owner's stamp on front end paper; A FINE COPY. Tenth century Sufi classic, translated into English for the first time. 121 pages. Octavo.
SUFISM FOR TODAY.
Alif Publishing, 1967. In wraps; Very Good or better volume. 215 pages.
EUPHEMISM & DYSPHEMISM: Language Used as Shield and Weapon.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. A Fine Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Glossary and References Cited. 263 pages, indexed. Royal octavo.
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.
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 QUINTESSENTIAL CAT.
New York: Macmillan, 1994. FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. [xiv], 289 pages. Small 4to.
PACIFICA: Myth, Magic and Traditional Wisdom from the South Sea Islands.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1993. First Edition. FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Color photography by John Tristam. 160 pages. Tall 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.
MY THIRTY YEAR'S WAR: An Autobiography. 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.
New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1930. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. Clipping about the author laid in. Twenty two photographs. Anderson was among the group known as "The Rope" which was "tutored" by Gurdjieff in the Paris of the 1930's. An excellent read. 274 pages. Tall octavo.
THE UNKNOWABLE GURDJIEFF.
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1991. In quality paper; Very Good. Dedicated to Jane Heap. 212 pages. Octavo.
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.
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.
A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON JAPAN IN ENGLISH.
Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group, 1988. Limited to 25 hand-numbered copies. In custom stitched wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Listings for Japanese history, religion, literature, arts, and crafts. 41 pages. 8vo.
