J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

THE FOLK ARTS OF JAPAN.

Munsterberg, Hugo. · 1958

$28.75 (€26.08 | £21.76 | ¥4,591)

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth (decorated fabric) copy in dust jacket, and housed in the original slipcase. Hand made kozo end papers, plus eighteen color plates & 110 gravure illustrations. Preface by Yanagi. Square 4to.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MONTAGUE SUMMERS.

Smith, Timothy d'Arch. · 1964

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New Hyde Park: University Books, 1964. Top and bottom edges are shelf worn; internals fine without marking or defect; Very Good Cloth Copy. Superb bibliography and reference for this prolific author, which included works on witchcraft and vampirism. His portrait is placed at ...

DIMENSIONS OF THE SACRED: An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs.

Smart, Ninian. · 1996

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. FIRST EDITION. A Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 331 pages with index. Tall 8vo.

THE SACRED SCRIPTURES OF THE JAPANESE; With All Authoritative Variants, Chronologically Arranged, Setting Forth the Narrative of the Creation of the Cosmos, the Divine Descent of the Sky-Ancestor of the Imperial House & the Lineage of the Early Emperors.

Wheeler, Post. · 1952

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

New York: Henry Schuman, 1952. FIRST EDITION. A Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 562 pages, with superb annotation on the sacred literature of Japan. Tall Octavo.

C.S. LEWIS: An Annotated Checklist of Writings about Him and his Works.

Christopher, Joe & Ostling, Joan. (comps.) · 1973

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Kent State University Press, 1973. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy, sewn. 389 pages. Reviews and blurbs accompany most titles in this exhaustive study.

THE ICONS OF YUHANNA AND IBRAHIM THE SCRIBE.

Mulock, Cawthra & Langdon, M.T. · 1946

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London: Nicholson & Watson, 1946. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ Cloth Volume. Colored frontispiece, and twenty full-page plates. Small quarto.

SUBTLE SHINING SECRECIES: Writ in the Margents of Books; Generally Ascribed to William Shakespeare, the Actor and Here Ascribed to William Shakespeare, the Poet.

Booth, William Stone. · 1925

$110.00 (€99.80 | £83.26 | ¥17,566)

Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1925. Limited edition (#899), signed by author. Frontispiece of Lord Bacon under tissue; A FINE COPY, bound in paper covered boards, with tipped labels.Errata slip tipped in rear. 292 pages with index. Small 4to.

THE HISTORY OF HELL.

Turner, Alice K. · 1993

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

New York: Harcourt, 1993. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Impressive research. Stunning color work on the plates. 275 pages. Tall quarto.

KINDNESS, CLARITY, AND INSIGHT.

Tenzin Gyatsho, The XIV (the current) Dalai Lama of Tibet. · 1984

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1984. FIRST PRINTING. In quality wraps as issued; small crease upper corner of rear cover, else, A FINE COPY. Translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, and co-edited by Elizabeth Napper. 232 pages. Octavo.

ZEN & ORIENTAL ART.

Munsterberg, Hugo. · 1965

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Rutland, VT: Charles Tuttle Company, 1965. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY, quarter bound in linen and boards, in a fine dust jacket. Fifty three nicely selected plates. Bibliography. 158 pages, indexed. Quarto,

METAPHYSICS OF WAR: Battle, Victory & Death in the World of Tradition.

Evola, Julius. · 2010

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

UK: Arktos Press, 2010. Quality trade paper edition as issued; A FINE COPY. Edited by John Morgan and Patrick Boch. 154 pages. Octavo.

MYSTICISM AND CATHOLICISM.

Stutfield, Hugh E.M. · 1925

$33.50 (€30.39 | £25.36 | ¥5,350)

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Some foxing at the prelims and fore edge; slight wear lower corner edge; otherwise, A VERY GOOD COPY. Wide subject matter in this volume as it takes in Gnosticism, the ancient Mysteries, demonology, the Logos, and the dangers of ec...

MOTHER OF GOD.

Cunningham, Lawrence. · 1982

$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.79 | ¥3,753)

San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Preface by Mary Gordon. Photographs by Nicolas Sapieha. 4to.

KAETHE WOLF GUMPOLD: Priest, Artist, Writer. An Illustrated Biography, Connected with the Life of William Blake.

Fletcher, John & Rathgeber, Ernest. · 1989

$23.75 (€21.55 | £17.98 | ¥3,793)

London: Mercury Arts, 1989. A FINE COPY in original wraps. Forty three plates, mostly in color. Wolf was a metaphysical artist, who worked under the auspices of Rudolf Steiner. 179 pages. Small 4to.

A SURVEY OF CATHOLIC LITERATURE.

Brown, Stephen. · 1945

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Milwaukee: Bruce, 1945. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD or better cloth volume in nice dust jacket. Covers the literature from beginning of the Reaniassance into modern Europe. [ix], 250 pages. Octavo.

WHERE EVERY BREATH IS A PRAYER: A Photographic Pilgrimage Into the Spiritual Heart of Asia.

Ortner, Jon. · 1996

$21.50 (€19.51 | £16.27 | ¥3,433)

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. FIRST EDITION. A fine premium cloth copy in fine dust jacket. Extraordinary global selection, and great color work by then printers. More than 300 photographs. 232 pages. Tall quarto.

THE HISTORY OF BUDDHIST THOUGHT.

Thomas, Edward. · 1959

$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.79 | ¥3,753)

New York: Barnes (Routledge & Kegen Paul), 1959. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME. Beautiful gilt vignette on front panel. 316 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.

PANDORA'S BOX: The Changing Aspect of a Mythical Symbol.

Panofsky, Dora and Erwin. · 1962

$49.50 (€44.91 | £37.47 | ¥7,905)

New York: Pantheon, 1962. Second edition, revised by the author, with new material & additions. Very Good+ Premium Cloth Copy printed on a quality enamel stock. Sixty plates and illustrations. Bollingen series LII. 185 pages, indexed. 4to.

THE DOUCE APOCALYPSE.

Hassall, A.G. & W.O. · 1961

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1961. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Top of spine has minor bruise; else, A VERY GOOD CLOTH COPY. Twelve colored hand-tipped plates, with commentary, plus additional material. This apocalyptic work dates from the thirteenth century, and depicts scenes from ...

AMIDA BUDDHA UNSERE ZUFLUCHT: Urkunden zum Verstandnis des japanischen Sukhavati-Buddhismus. [AMIDA BUDDHA, OUR REFUGE: Documents for the Understanding of Japanese Sukhavati Buddhism]

Haas, Dr. Hans. · 1910

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Leipzig: Theodor Weicher, 1910. Very Good+ cloth volume. With rare plates. Text in German. LC Duplicate purchased in 1976. 185 pages, indexed. Small 4to.