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xxstf172167

The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change


HANNE, MICHAEL

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Berghahn Books 1994

KEYWORDS: literary criticism literature politics philosophy psychology fiction sociology

$50.00
2i42a/1

Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China


LIU, KWANG-CHING (Ed)

LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 364pp, Near FINE (v sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperial civilization civilisation congresses philosophy studies humanities class stratification

$42.50
2i42a/3

Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki


HAKUSEKI, ARAI & ACKROYD, JOYCE (Trans)

Super octavo, cream cloth boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 347pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's v sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, 1cm loss to lower spine extrem, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press & University of Tokyo Press 1979

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arai Hakuseki Japanese literature philosophy Confucius

$45.00
2i42a/4

Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution: Zhang Binglin and Confucianism


KENJI, SHIMADA & FOGEL, JOSHUA A. (Trans)

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 190pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Confucius philosophy essays prose collection revolution thought religion

$40.00
2i42a/18

Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning: A Translation of the Meng Tzu tzu-i shu-cheng


CHIN, ANN-PING & FREEMAN, MANSFIELD (Trans & Intro)

Super octavo, beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xi + 222pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to upper extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese meng tzu tzu-i shu-cheng Tai Chen Ch'ing philosophy Confucius confucian

$85.00
2i42a/24

Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics


GU, MING DONG

Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 334pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to cover corners & edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China Chinese theories literature reading writing theory Asian studies literary criticism philosophy

$60.00
2i42a/25

Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China


ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, xxxiii + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's sm name label to prelims, adhesive errata slip to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history classicism politics philosophy imperial confucianism confucius literature

$14.50
xxstg172203

The Green Leaf: A Tribute to Grey Owl


DICKSON, LOVAT (edi.)

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Lovat Dickson Ltd 1938

KEYWORDS: grey owl the green leaf philosophy biography humanitarianism first peoples canada indigenous collection

$22.50
xxstg172229

Realism and Social Vision in Coubert & Proudhhon


RUBIN, JAMES HENRY

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: gustave coubert art analysis theory social commentary vision history realism anarchist anarchy philosophy pierre-joseph proudhon

$42.50
2i45a/18

Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas


GOSSMAN, LIONEL

Super octavo, white heavy boards, purple lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (moderate deformity/mishapening to spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 2000

KEYWORDS: Basel 19th nineteenth century history Switzerland Europe philosophy culture

$16.50
xxsti172298

Figuring it Out: What Are We? Where Do We Come From? The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archeologists


RENFREW, COLIN

Ex. library. Imperial octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 2006

KEYWORDS: origins of humanity philosophy archeologists artists art history theory interdiscipline sculpture

$25.00
xxsti172309

The Platform of the Sixth Patriarch


TUN-HUANG; YAMPOLSKY, PHILIP (trans.)

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Columbia

KEYWORDS: platform sutra fifth patriarch tun-huang tun huang translated buddism philosophy spirituality religion religious

$40.00
2i46a/23

Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition


GIEDION, SIGFRIED

Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, lvi + 897pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sm lettering in ink to lower page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light closed tearing in various spots, light soiling to spine & covers, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1967

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings philosophy art history technology

$48.50
2i46a/34

Genuine Fake: A Biography of Alan Watts


FURLONG, MONICA

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: william Heinemann 1986

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Alan Watts sixties 60s philosophy

$45.00
2i48a/2

Enlightenment! The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; A New Translation and Commentary


MSI

Super octavo, light card covers, gilt lettering to spine, 332pp, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink inside front cover, light annotation in ink to rear pgs)

PUBLISHER: Society for Ascension 1996

KEYWORDS: spirituality yoga sutras patanjali religion philosophy meditation

$100.00
2i48a/6

Earth at Omega: Passage to Planetization


KEYS, DONALD & COUSINS, NORMAN (Intro)

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 117pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, prev. ownership stamp in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss, 3cm loss to top of front flap, moderate chafing with light surface loss)

PUBLISHER: The Branden Press 1982

KEYWORDS: philosophy politics Donald Keys planetary existence

$42.50
2i48a/8

The Seven Human Temperaments


HODSON, GEOFFREY

Sm octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xviii + 81pp, folding chart to rear, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ownership ink stamp to ffep, 2cm closed tear to folding chart- otherwise tidy) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Theosophical Publishing House 1973

KEYWORDS: theosophy philosophy spirituality meditation New Zealand Geoffrey Hodson literature

$50.00
2i48a/12

The Impossible Question


KRISHNAMURTI, J.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 207pp, VG+ (light fading to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, gift inscription in pencil & ownership stamp in ink to ffepsl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate foxing, light discolourationt o spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, 1cm closed tear to lower edges of front cover with archival tape repair)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1972

KEYWORDS: first edition spirituality meditation teachings Krishnamurti philosophy

$100.00
2i48a/16

Atmatattwam: Recorded Talks of Sri Adwayananda (Sri K. Padmanabha Menon)


ADWAYANANDA, SRI (MENON, SRI K. PADMANABHA)

Octavo, brown light card covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 201pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing to covers, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & creasing to spine & edges)

PUBLISHER: Advaita Publishers 1995

KEYWORDS: talks religion spirituality Sri Adwayananda philosophy

$40.00
2i48a/18

Spiritual Elixir: Timeless Excerpts From Correspondence


SINGH, KIRPAL

Octavo, blue light card covers, yellow lettering to spine & covers, frontispiece, xi + 383pp, VG (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light foxing to page edges, some page edges roughly cut & creased, prev. owner's name in ink to inside front cover)

PUBLISHER: Ruhani Satsang (Books) 1978

KEYWORDS: spirituality religion philosophy Kirpal Singh India

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