J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

BUDDHISM AND SOCIETY: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes.

Spiro, Melford E. · 1970

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ Cloth Volume. This book is a careful study of the principal ideas of Buddhism, and the ways in which it has undergone changes, related to both the means, and the goal of salvation. 510 pages. Royal octavo.

MONOLITHIC JINAS: The Iconography of the Jain Temples.

Pereira, Jose. · 1977

$24.75 (€22.46 | £18.73 | ¥3,952)

New Delhi: Motilal Barnasidas, 1977. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY in dust jacket. Well illustrated with plans and photos. 186 pages with index. Tall 8vo.

BLAKE: Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Lindsay, David. · 1989

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1989. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Critics Debate Series. Lindsay surveys the methods of criticism pertinent to this work, and the many mutations that Blake applied to its symbolism, including the Neo-P...

FRIENDS & INFLUENCES: The Memoirs of an Artist; Austin Osman Spare; Ellen Spare; Walter E. Spradbery; Boris Anrep; L.S. Lowry; Haydn Reynolds Mackey; Siegfried Moos; and Lotte Moos.

Sargeant, Gary. · 2013

$54.95 (€49.86 | £41.59 | ¥8,775)

London: Jerusalem Press, 2013. Limited to 500 premium cloth copies. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine illustrated dust jacket, featuring a self portrait of Spare. The afterword by Stephen Pochin charts the constellation of artists, who Spare befriended from the end of WWI until his de...

HERETICS: The Other Side of Early Christianity.

Ludemann, Gerd. · 1996

$57.00 (€51.72 | £43.14 | ¥9,102)

Louisville: Westminster & John Knox Press, 1996. First American Edition. Owner's tag on front free end paper; otherwise, A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket Translated from the German by John Bowden. 335 pages. Tall 8vo.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA.

Oesterley, W.O.E. · 1958

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.98 | ¥5,270)

London: SPCK, 1958. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. 345 pages with index. Octavo.

WORLD OF THE BUDDHA: An Introduction to Buddhist Literature.

Stryk, Lucien. (ed.) · 1982

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

New York: Grove Press, 1982. In quality trade wraps; A FINE COPY. Commentary by Strykand, and the volume includes translations Buddhist literature from Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and other Asian languages. 423 pages. Octavo.

ARISTOTLES, AVERROES, UND DIE BEIDEN ECKHARTS.

Merlan, Philip. · 1955

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Louvain; Publications Iniversitaires de Louvain, 1955. In stitched wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Text in German. 22 pages. Tall octavo.

ARISTOTLE'S UNMOVED MOVERS.

Merlan, Philip. · 1946

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

New York: Cosmopolitan Science & Art Service, 1946. In wraps as issued; A FINE COPY of an offprint from Traditio{ Studies on Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion [Vol. IV]. Text in English. 30 pages. Small quarto.

THE MIRROR OF LIGHT.

Collin, Rodney. · 2007

$19.95 (€18.10 | £15.10 | ¥3,186)

Holmes Publishing Group / By the Way, 2007. Limited Edition. Custom end papers; A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket, sewn and archival. Revised and corrected by JD Holmes, in cooperation with the family of Rodney Collin, who provided many unpublished photographs of O...

THE EMPEROR JULIAN'S RELATION TO THE NEW SOPHISTIC AND NEO-PLATONISM.

Wright, Wilmer Cave. · 1980

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York: Garland Publishing, 1980. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY, sewn, archival, and nicely printed as per usual, with this quality publisher. 107 pages, plus Garland's Ancient Philosophy book list. Octavo.

NEWLY DISCOVERED GNOSTIC WRITINGS: A Preliminary Survey of the Nag Hammadi Find.

Van Unnik, W.C. · 1960

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London: SCM Press, 1960. Good Research copy. In original wraps as issued; few paragraph markers, but no underlining; Studies in Biblical Theology No. 30. Octavo.

THE ORAGEAN VERSION. 35 mm Microfilm, Gurdjieff-related.

King, C. Daly. [Collectible] · 1951

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Originally published at Long Valley, NJ: By the author, 1951. In the original microfilm box, with title label, applied by the Memorial Library, Madison, commissioned by JDH, A FINE COPY, and an unusual collectible. Film is positive to enhance viewing or copying on a microfilm...

GERSHOM SCHOLEM: Master of the Kabbalah.

Biale, David. · 2018

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2018. First Edition. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait. [xi], 232 pages, indexed. Octavo.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES ON THE TEACHING OF G.I. GURDJIEFF AND P.D. OUSPENSKY. Volume 5.

Nicoll, Maurice. · 1975

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

London: Watkins, 1975.. A VERY GOOD+ COPY in publisher's royal blue cloth binding, without internal marking or defect. 253 pages. Small 4to.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARIES ON THE TEACHING OF G.I. GURDJIEFF AND P.D. OUSPENSKY. Volume 4.

Nicoll, Maurice. · 1976

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

London: Watkins, 1976. Clean, firm binding; Good Cloth Research Copy. Annotated and lined by an enthusiastic student. 268 pages. Small 4to.

THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR: The Paradox of the Martial Arts.

Reid, Howard & Croucher, Michael. · 1995

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

London: Leopard Books, 1995. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Glossary of terms, index and hundreds of illustrations. 240 pages. Quarto.

CREATING FORM FROM THE MIST: Wisdom of Women in Celtic Myth and Culture.

Sinclair-Wood, Lynne. · 1999

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

UK: Capall-Bann, 1999.. FIRST EDITION. Quality trade paper edition; A FINE COPY. This volume relates the stories of powerful women in Celtic tradition, then looks beyond the storyline to the symbolic meanings behind these characters to illuminate the spiritual journey. Octavo.

TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME.

Campbell. Joseph. · 1990

$19.25 (€17.47 | £14.57 | ¥3,074)

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Oversize trade paper edition; VERY GOOD+. Illustrated. Campbell's last lecture series. 263 pages. 4to/

FOUR PILGRIMS.

Boulting, William. · 1935

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., no date (circa 1935). Trubner's Oriental series. The four are Hiuen-Tsiang (his perilous journey to the Sacred Land of Buddha, A.D. 627-643; Saewulf (an English pilgrim to Palestine); Mohammed ibn Abd Allah (better known as Ibn Batuta...