Published by The Macaulay Company, New York, 1927
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First US edition. 235 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with slightly toned spine panel, else Near Fine. A very nice copy.
Seller Inventory # 180715003
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xxxvii, 377 pp. with black and white photo section. Blue cloth and gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine panel, worn along edges. The companion volume to Seven Storey Mountain.
Seller Inventory # 180806007
Published by Collins, London, 1967
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. xxv, 645 pp. Original cloth. Fine in bright, unfaded and unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear in top of front panel, light wear at head, Near Fine. An attractive copy.
Seller Inventory # 140939116
Published by Kailas Press, New York, 1931
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. First edition. Signed by J.C. Chatterji on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Freyer with the compliments of the scribe New York Feb. 1931 > [signed] Jagadish Ch. Chatterji." 75 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with rubbing to front panel, small stain there as well, light wear. An uncommon signature from a scholar of ancient Indian religion, at the time of publication the director of the India Academy of America, former founder of the Kashmir Research Department. Features an introduction by American philosopher John Dewey.
Seller Inventory # 140941699
Published by Dionisio Rodriguez, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1853
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
74 pp. Bound in publisher's stringbound wraps. Text in Spanish. Good+, brittle with chipping along front wrap, dampstaining to margins. Apparently a guide to the religious precepts of the order of N. Padre San Francisco. Uncommon.
Seller Inventory # 140944084
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1951
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. xiv, [16, photos], 474, xvii, [3] pp. Finely rebound by Asprey in full morocco with five raised bands, gilt spine lettering and ornate turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Near Fine. An expose of fascist networks active in the Middle East after WWII by muchraking anti-fascist journalist John Roy Carlson, an Armenian-American journalist whose bestselling book Under Cover brought similar networks in the US before and during WWII to light. Scholars of terrorism post 9/11 have called attention to some of the figures in this book as early proponents of Islamic fundmentalism and third-positionism. An unusual, obscure choice for such a luxurious binding, but for the intrepid collector of parapolitical literature and the history of political extremism perhaps it's ideal.
Seller Inventory # 140944789
Published by The Octagon Press, London, 1978
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first printing. 193, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, bookseller's label on paste down, in a lightly worn dust jacket, Near Fine. An uncommon work by the Afghan Sufist writer (1924-1996), who also wrote under the pen name Arkon Daraul. The titular "perfuming of a scorpion" is a reference to a symbol used by Bahaudin Naqshband of Bukhara when he taught about the ubiquitous problem of hypocrisy and self-deception in both individuals and institutions: "Whoever might perfume a scorpion will not thereby escape its sting.".
Seller Inventory # 140946266
Published by Schocken, New York, 1965
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. First American edition. [xii], 351 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with remainder mark on bottom edge in Good only dust jacket with a large chip at the head, edge wear, creasing and wear to fold at back panel, price-clipped. The influential German-born philosopher's thoughts on Spinoza and the meaning of truth and myth in societies.
Seller Inventory # 140943565
Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, 1868
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition. 277 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown coated endpapers. Very Good, dulled spine lettering, tear in head cloth, light wear, former owner's name on title page and upper margin p. 42, pages toned with age.
Seller Inventory # 140945131
Published by Roofhopper Enterprises, Inc, Auckland, New Zealand, 1971
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First New Zealand edition. First New Zealand edition. [ii], 65 pp. with illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering. Good+ with dampstaining to boards, slight musty smell, in a Good dust jacket with a small scrape along front gutter, light dampstaining and edge wear.An American alien contactee memoir first published in the US in 1955. From the front flap of the jacket: "Here is one of the most startling stories ever written! The narrator, calmly working in his auto repair shop, suddenly finds himself playing host to a pair of visitors from Outer Space. From that moment his entire life is changed. For weeks the Spacemen practice all types of weird experiments upon their bewildered friend, who is too terriified to protest. Finally, wearying of their ingenious supergames, they decide to take the poor auto mechanic on a trip to Hell. You will thrill to the excitement of riding, while in the comfort of your easy chair, in the flying saucer that makes the trip from California to Hell.".
Seller Inventory # 140945714
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1965
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. 223 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering, green topstain. Near Fine with one or two dog-eared pages in a slightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear along top edge, front flap creased, unclipped ($4.95). A major 20th century defense of Catholicism, which has gone through three editions since publication. Sidney Hook wrote of it in Commentary: "A remarkable book.by Michael Novak.who writes with verve and distinction about God, man, and the world. Impressed by the scrupulous restraint with which naturalist philosophers refuse to read their fears or hopes into the universe and by the depths of their tragic humanism, he has made a fresh attempt to restate the case for Christian theism and to meet the challenge of naturalism without sacrificing or diluting his own faith.".
Seller Inventory # 140945720
Published by Self-Realization Fellowship Publishing House, Los Angeles, 1952
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [iv], 160 pp. with photo frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with turquoise lettering. First edition. A Very Good copy with rubbed lettering, tiny tear in front free endpaper, lacking dust jacket. A collection of the spiritual guru's sayings published not long after his death in 1952.
Seller Inventory # 140939997
Published by Swan Sonnenschien & Co, London, 1895
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red blind ruled burgundy cloth. Ex-library with typical markings. Good with lean to binding, moderate wear at extremities and light soiling to cloth. Tender binding with pencil markings to contents. A critical biography of the Russian mystic and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. The Buddhist author, Lillie, believed Blavatsky was a plagiarist and questioned the claims of the Theosophical Society.
Seller Inventory # 140946334
Published by Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia, 1859
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing to text, a few corner-creased pages. A very neat, clean copy. An American Presbyterian doctor's religious and professional advice to his fellow doctors, published anonymously. Rare.
Seller Inventory # 140938017
Published by Public Information Communications Association, Compton, CA, 1962
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Original pressing in red vinyl with Pica labels. DTL-831. About Very Good record with light wear and some surface srctahcing, label darkened, in a Good sleeve, some staining and wear to bottom of front and back, text effaced MLK's speech at a civil rights rally at The Zion Hill Baptist Church in Los Angeles, June 17, 1962. Some tracks have accompanied Gospel music but are uncredited on this recording.His first album.
Seller Inventory # 140945515
Published by Abelard-Schuman, London and New York, 1959
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first impression. 128pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket a little toning and small scuff to spine panel, price clipped in a rectangular shape. An early work by the perennially popular English philosopher and interpreter of religious/spiritual practices around the world, on the Christian tradition of Easter and its roots in European paganism.
Seller Inventory # 140946083
Published by The Sunday School Publishing Board, Nashville, 1928
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lettering a little rubbed, wear at tips, former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon.Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown (1863-1947) was one of the first African Americans to write Sunday School literature. He served as editor-in-chief of the National Baptist Convention's Sunday School Publishing Board for 23 years. This volume describes itself as "An experimental study, observation and suggestion on the deaconship, by himself, and many of the very best ministers and scholars of the denomination both colored and white.".
Seller Inventory # 140943459
Published by Harper and Row, New York, 1963
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. First American edition. xvi, 204 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with white and red lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper in Very Good+ dust jacket, price-clipped, light rubbing. A nice copy.
Seller Inventory # 140945438
Published by The Baker and Taylor Company, New York, 1909
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Very Good. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine toned and stained at rear cover. A lovely copy, signed by the author.
Seller Inventory # 140938275
Published by Methodist Book Concern, New York, 1915
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth stamped in black. Very Good or better with light staining to cloth visible in raking light as well as staining to the bottom corner of the rear cover. Three small areas of abrasion to front and rear endsheets and very light marking in text. Thoughts on the proposed unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the foul treatment of African American members. The author was a pastor in Baltimore, MD, and on account of civil rights leader Booker T. Washington's recommendation of Lyon to President Theodore Roosevelt, Lyon served as the United States Ambassador to Liberia.
Seller Inventory # 140943077
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited, London, 1950
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. First British edition, first printing. Ten books in Three Series, of which, this is the First Series. 1238 pp. Blue cloth over flexible boards with gilt lettering to spine; lacking the dust jacket. Covers rubbed at extremities and lightly creased; spine slightly darkened, gilt lettering heavily rubbed. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. Endsheets tonned, several page corners creased. A nice copy of Gurdjieff's best-known work, uncommon in the British first edition.
Seller Inventory # 140938799
Published by National Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, 1903
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. [iv], 298 pp. Bound in publisher's pebbled blue cloth lettered in gilt; appears to be the more modern-looking of at least two variants. Near Fine with light shelf wear, age-toning to pages. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown (1863-1947) was one of the first African Americans to write Sunday School literature. He served as editor-in-chief of the National Baptist Convention's Sunday School Publishing Board for 23 years.
Seller Inventory # 140943456
Published by Johannem Anisson, Paris, 1698
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. (xxiv), 440 (7, Indiculus Locorum), (1) pp. Period speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut title page device, head and tail-pieces and initials. In Latin. Very Good with worn head and tail, small sliver of biopredation to front joint also effecting front free endpaper, joints starting, bookplate on paste down with former owner's name in ink there and on title page, slight rippling to pages. Three tracts by theologian and renowned orator Jacques-B�nigne Lignel Bossuet (1627-1704) against Quietism, Jansenism, and other religious movements deemed heretical by the Catholic church.
Seller Inventory # 140937363
Published by John Chapman, London, 1845
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth, elaborately blind-stamped spines lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Complete in three volumes. Very Good with frayed heads and wear along edges, private ex libris bookplates of Union officer Hiram Scofield (who had one of the largest US private libraries in the 19th century) on paste downs, front hinges of volumes 1 and 3 cracked, front free endpaper and frontis of Vol. 1 detached but present, a few light pencil marginal checkmarks and notes on rear endpapers. The memoirs of a Spanish-born theologian, poet, and political thinker associated with the Oxford Movement.
Seller Inventory # 140941242
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1935
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. xxiv, 389, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. Very Good with dulled and a little rubbed spine, bumped corners, former owner's name on front free endpaper, small tape repair there as well.
Seller Inventory # 140943913
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1983
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Alberto Giovannetti on the front free endpaper. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's black boards with red cloth backstrip, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, worn at tips, unclipped ($14.95). Rare signed. The first novel by Italian Monsignor Alberto Giovanetti, Vatican historian and observer to the United Nations for the Holy See from 1964 to 1973. A Cold War espionage novel first published in Italy as Requiem per una spia in 1978.
Seller Inventory # 140944944
Published by Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, Kansas City, MO, 1901
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first printing. 500pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue buckram with gilt spine lettering, floral endpapers. Very Good, well-worn along edges, gift inscription to rear endpaper and a few previous owner stamps to endpapers, limited underlining to text and few marginal notes. The best known work by an American Spiritualist, featuring conversations with a medium, William W. Aber. According to Nixon's obituary in the 1915 Spring Hill (Kansas) New Era he was born in 1831 and raised a Quaker; he was a "police judge" and city attorney in Spring Hill for many years. That town was the center of what was known as the Aber Intellectual Circle. This book features Aber's conversations with spirits, some of whom were famous historical figures. According to the Topeka Library's account of Aber's exploits, "In the early 1900s Aber's fraudulent seances were exposed several times in the Kansas City area. In one instance he was exposed by two men who were worried about a woman who had been seeing Aber to contact her deceased husband. The two men grabbed Aber, who was dressed as a spirit. Aber managed to escape and locked himself in the bathroom until authorities arrived. He tried his luck again on the West coast. Authorities arrested Aber in Seattle in 1920 while, once again, dressed as a ghostly apparition. He was told to leave town. Newspapers across the nation carried the humorous headline 'Ghost Fined and Must Walk Earth Elsewhere.'".
Seller Inventory # 140946256
Published by Unknown, Cordoba, Spain, 1709
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Bound in vellum with fragmentary straps, contents printed on rag stock, title and author handwritten in ink on spine with date. 823 pp. bicolumnar. Very Good with staining and wrinkling to vellum, foxing to fore edge, typical offsetting to contents, title page a bit rubbed. A Latin philosophical text by an Augustinian Father who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Salamanca. The second volume in a series.
Seller Inventory # 140939624
Published by Unknown, Cordoba, Spain, 1724
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Bound in vellum with fragmentary straps, contents printed on rag stock, title and author handwritten in ink on spine with date. 635 pp. bicolumnar. Very Good with staining and wrinkling to vellum, a few ink blots and faint dampstain to fore edge, typical offsetting to contents, ink doodle to verso of title page. A Latin philosophical text by an Augustinian Father who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Salamanca. The fifth volume in a series.
Seller Inventory # 140939625
Published by Rider and Company, London, 1949
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 403 pp. with photo frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. First British edition. A Good+ copy with mottled cloth, foxed edges, small scratch to front board, in a tattered dust jacket with multiple chips and tears, Fair. The first British appearance of a classic of modern spirituality.
Seller Inventory # 140939999