NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First edition. Original green cloth, octavo (6.25 x 9.25 inches), pp vii, 339. 2-page advertisement for "The Evolution of Woman" by Mrs. Gamble at rear. Light wear to covers, contemporary owner name to front fixed endpaper, front inner hinge starting. A very literate and compelling..... More
London: Printed by J. G. for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane, 1659. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio (11 x 7 inches), [12], 23, [22], 24-711 pp., (pagination includes the engraved allegorical title-page); vignette engraving on text title-page, folding engraved emblem plate titled "Tree of the Church." Contemporary full..... More
[np: np, 1931]. Limited first edition. Hardcover. viii, [4], 76 pp.; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title. More
Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Original pale blue pictorial cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches; 49 pp., illustrated. Contains 6 tales of nature and fairy spirits: A Rainy Day; Poppy; Under the Ocean; The Cloud Fairies; The Gnome; The Salamander. Though the stories are presented as fiction..... More
Los Angeles: Mazdaznan Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. LV, 1 fl, 48 pp., tipped in photo frontispiece; 12mo, original blue cloth with gilt title. A study of Omar Khayyam and his iconic poem by the founder and leader of the Mazdaznan religious cult. More
Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1714. First edition. Hardcover. Original full calf; quarto; [8], 32, 232, 104, [2], 105-163 (but 164), 31 pp. (penultimate section with page 152 misnumbered 151 with error continued). Boards somewhat warped, joints cracked but cords holding, covers scuffed, contemporary ink..... More
Santa Rosa: Published by the Author / Fountaingrove, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 314 pp. + leaf of adverstisements for other works by the author, frontispiece (mounted albumen photograph portrait of the author with facsimile autograph in blue ink); octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt title, top edge gilt. This..... More
Santa Rosa: Privately Printed, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pp.; octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles. Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) born in England, his family emigrated to the US when Harris was 5 years old. At the age of 20 he became a Universalist minister for a year before..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1945). Early reprint. Hardcover. xvi, 504 pp., with illustrations from photographs, line drawings by Theresa Garrett Eliot; octavo, original cream cloth with title stamped in green. Dustjacket. "The tracing of the evolution of the gods of men in a search for the innermost motive of society."..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth and patterned boards; octavo, xi, 286 pp.,color frontispiece from photograph, page decorations by Mac Harshberger. The life of Buddha told as a story narrative. More
Boston: Sherman, French & Co., 1912. Hardcover. [12]. 53 pp.; small octavo, parchment spine and gray boards, gilt title. A sort of creation fable in the style of Aesop. Foreword by Edward J. Wheeler (which is dated March 1, 1915) is largely a head-scratching attempt to categorize the tale. More
New York: Castle Books, (1958). Reprint of the 1923 Rider first edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, octavo, xii, 238 pp., 5 full-page plates, many illustrations in the text. "The intriguing facts abou the Horse and his role in the Develpment of Mankind." More
Louvain: Secretariat du Corppus SCO, 1978. First edition. Paperback. xiii, 75 text pp, followed by 35 leaves of photographic reproductions of the manuscript; original printed wrappers, 26.5 x 16.5 cm (10 x 6.5 inches). Introductory text in English. Publisher E. Peeters sticker over Corppus imprint on front cover. Corpus Scriptorum..... More
Lovanii (i.e., Louvain, Belgium): E. Peeters, 1983. First edition. Paperback. 35 text pp, followed by 62 double leaves of photographic reproductions of the manuscript; original printed wrappers, 26.5 x 16.5 cm (10 x 6.5 inches). Introductory text in English. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium Vol. 449, Subsidia Tomus 68. More
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1990. Limited edition. Paperback. [11] pp introductory text + 50 leaves monochrome facsimile; printed wrappers, 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Edition of 250 copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press. This copy un-numbered. More
Boston: American Unitarian Association, (1910). First edition. Hardcover. [3], 42 pp., small octavo, white cloth and gilt blue boards. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "'The force of arms must be kept far from the gospel,' David Starr Jordon, Palo Alto, California, February 24, 1911." David..... More
Los Angeles: The Magazine Theosophy, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. [5], 237 pp. + 7-page catalog of Theosophical publications; 12mo (5.75 x 4.25 inches), full limp leather with gilt title and ornament. Rare original edition of this volume on the Bhagavad-Gita by one of the founders of the original Theosophica Society..... More
Washington, DC: C. P. Farrell, 1882. Second printing. Hardcover. 126 pp. 12mo (6.75 x 5 inches), green cloth over thin card, gilt title. This copy ex libris J. Leroy Nickel (1895-1959) with his bookplate to front fixed endpaper. Nickel was known as one of the largest land barons in California..... More
New York: Redfield, 1854. Early reprint. Hardcover. 212 pp. + 22-page catalog at rear, frontispiece, many engraved illustrations in the text; small octavo, original purple cloth. A well-written dissertation on Rome's catecombs and their significance in the early Christian church. More
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, (1946). Revised edition. Hardcover. xvi, 112 pp. + [4] pp. adverts for additional books by the author at rear; 12mo, cloth spine and printed lavender boards. J. C. (Joseph Chelladurai Cornelius) Kumarappa (1892-1960) was an Indian economist and close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. A biography of..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth,octavo, xxiii, 555 pp. Catalogue at rear. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. From the publisher's "History of Civilization" series. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., nd (circa 1925). Hardcover. xi, (139) pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, dustjacket. More
New York: Truth Seeker Co., nd [1915]. Early reprint. Hardcover. 103, [5] pp., frontispiece illustration; octavo, original yellow cloth. An atheist's analysis of the Christian beliefs. Scarce. More
London: L. N. Fowler (and) Modern Astrology, 1909. Second edition. Hardcover. viii, 305 pp. + 4-page catalog at rear; small octavo, original pale green cloth. Originally published in 1904. More
Chicago: Theosophical Press, (1925). First edition. Paperback. Green wrappers, 7.5 x 5.25 inches; 50 pp.. Slight fading to wrappers, else fine. This title one of several in the "Theosophical Science Series" by W. Scott Lewis. More