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By: Adikaram, E. W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Migoda, Ceylon, D. S. Puswella: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5966
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
[12] 154, [50] pgs. Index. Original soft cloth covers in dark cream buckram with red. Covers are soiled, worm holes throughout spine. Interior front and first few pages have extensive worming at the center gutter, front board starting to separate at bottom gutter (outer cloth not separating) , contents a bit proud and leaning forward, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Quite scare first edition of this scholarly history of buddhism in Sri Lanka. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages View more info
By: Chinul & Robert E. Buswell Jr.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawai'i Press: 1983
Seller ID: 5952
ISBN: 0824807855
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Xvi + 468 pp. Index. Glossary, bibliography, character list. Frontis plate, illustrated with tables and charts. Grey cloth with silver gilt has moderate normal wear. Bottom edge has "Korea" written in black marker. The reason the price is so low is that the top edge of the entire interior of the book has water damage with a ripple throughout -- appears to be a beverage catastrophe -- otherwise clean and unmarked. Aethetically unpleasing but the book is still sound and usable. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 468 pages View more info
By: Cornu, Philippe
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Paris, Editions du Seuil: 2001
Seller ID: 5853
ISBN: 2020362341
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
843 pp. Glossary of Chinese terms with Japanes & Sanskrit equivalents. In French. Black dust jacket with Bhudda's face in green with gold has a bit of edge wear, old price sticker at rear, book itself has hint of wear at spine tips, otherwise clean and nice. Good copy. ; French Edition; 10.55 X 7.64 X 2.44 inches; 843 pages View more info
By: Cox, Collett
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Tokyo, International Institute for Buddhist Studies: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10030
ISBN: 4906267369
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Xxiii, 479, [i] pp. Chinese characters, bibliography, index. Pale pink textured paper covers have slight bit of shelf wear, corners a little toed-in, interior is clean and unmarked, slight bend at the top pages from storage. Nice copy of this hard to find work. "Abhidharma demands careful study, not because it was an extended prelude, interlude, or episode in the history of the Buddhist thought, but because it was a period of indispensable historical importance: the focus for the religious life of the intellectual elite of much of the monastic community for over 600 years and the foundatio... View more info
By: Getty, Alice
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1928
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 7562
Condition: Good
2nd editionlii, 220 pp. Index. Color plate at frontis, LXVII plates of which I, V, XXXVI, XLII, XLV, LV, LXI and frontis are in colours. Green cloth with gilt of the Buddhist Wheel with the six syllables of the Mantra of Avalokitesvara. Illustrations from the collection of Henry H. Getty. Ex-lib with white spine numbers at bottom spine, interior has normal library marks, pocket. Bottom front board bumped at corner, some rubbing at edges, back board is slightly bowed in, blanks a little grubby and title page has some thumbing, but otherwise clean and attractive. A beautiful book. Indispen... View more info
By: Jinshi, Fan
Price: $195.00
Publisher: London, Scala Arts Publishers Inc.: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7368
ISBN: 1857598741
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
256 pp. Chronology, glossary. Heavily illustrated in color. Matte heavy paper wraps with a photo of Bhudda in parinirvana is clean and nice. A beautiful copy. Mogao, and the other cave sites at and around Dunhuang were a meeting point of Buddhist and Central Asian art and culture with Chinese civilization. The caves, founded by Buddhist monks from the 4th century, were the focus of worship for over 1000 years. The murals with which they were decorated create one of the finest examples of Buddhist art in Chinese Central Asia, reflecting the changing styles of Chinese and Central Asian art f... View more info
By: Nobuyoshi, Yamamoto, Director
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Nara, Japan, Nara National Museum: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004650
Condition: Good
370 pp. Printed back to front. Primarily in Japanese but English list of exhibits as well as a short English essay on the history of the art. Magnificent plates. Glossy red paper covers with gilt and black are clean, bit of edge curling, interior bottom edges have a little curl as well, otherwise clean and unmarked. 2 leaf folio flyer tucked in. Lovely, scarce copy. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1953
Seller ID: 9130
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
xix, 114pp + 4 unnumbered pages. Frontis, photographs, index. Book has yellow and blue cloth hardcover with gold text on spine. Dust jacket is grey and cream with black text on spine and covers with illustration on front cover. Dust jacket has mylar cover. Illustrated front and back pastedowns and flyleaves. Book plates on front flyleaf and edge page. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 137 pages View more info
