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HUNGRY GHOSTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Counterpoint, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring stuntwoman Darcy Lott. SIGNED on the title page. Set in San Franciso. 264 pp. ISBN: 1582434174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48778More details Price: $30.00 -
THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 65703More details Price: $28.50 -
THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47882More details Price: $24.50 -
THE LADY AND THE MONK: Four Seasons in Kyoto.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1992.). SIGNED - The author's second book, an account of his stay in a Buddhist monastery in Japan, because he wanted to learn more about Zen Buddhism and Japan today. While he was there, he met a young woman who came to embody both the old and new Japan to him - the wife of a 'salaryman,' locked into an arranged marriage, but who was conversant with both the ancient tea ceremony and modern rock, who wore leg warmers one day and a kimono another. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author - "For -- Hope you have a wonderful time in Japan, with warmest wishes" and dated in 1993. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-679403086.
Condition: Good+ condition - usual toning to the pages, minor wear to covers.
Book ID: 50672More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WILD, WHITE GOOSE, VOLUME II; The Diary of a Female Zen Priest.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Mount Shasta, CA: Shasta Abbey Press, (1978). First edition - The chronicle of her last six years in Japan by Jiyu-Kennett, one of the first Western women to become a Zen master. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-930066030.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 71464More details Price: $19.50 -
NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER: Zen Journals 1969 -1982.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Boston: Shambala, 1987. A journey deep into the heart of American and Japanese Zen Buddhism. ISBN: 0-87773-4011.
Condition: Very good - (a few marginal brackets.).
Book ID: 26100More details Price: $9.50 -
![THE RECORDED SAYINGS OF LAYMAN P'ANG: A Ninth-Century Zen Classic. [P`ang chu-shih yu-lu] by P'ang Yun (740-808) Translated from the Chinese by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya and Dana R. Fraser](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/82959---200.jpg?v=1628727799)
THE RECORDED SAYINGS OF LAYMAN P'ANG: A Ninth-Century Zen Classic. [P`ang chu-shih yu-lu]
Edition: First edition.
New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first English translation of this record of the later years of P'ang Yun, recounted in an anecdotal style. Illustrated with two color and four halftone plates, planned, designed and produced at the Tokyo offices of John Weatherhill. Includes an introduction, supplemental notes, bibliography and index. 109 pp plus colophon. lllustrated endpapers. Jacket design by Naoto Kondo.
Condition: Very near fine in tan boards printed with Chinese text and red cloth spine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82959More details Price: $30.00 -
SEARCHING FOR A MUSTARD SEED: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Costa Mesa, CA: Quality Words in Print (QWP), (2003.). First edition - Poet's account of her attempt to deal with grief and to move on in her own life, when her husband, Robert, a Zen priest, died of colitis at the age of 36. The title refers to a Buddhist teaching story. 207 pp.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 29662More details Price: $10.00 -
AMBIVALENT ZEN: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Dustjacket praise from Normam Mailer and Gretel Ehrlich, who calls this a 'hilarious provocative account of what being a student of Zen has been for Lawrence Shainberg.'. ISBN: 0-679-441166.
Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket (binding cracked before title page.)
Book ID: 26093More details Price: $8.00 -
A ZEN FOREST: Sayings of the Masters Compiled and Translated with an Introduction By Soiku Shigematsu.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The distillation of Zen Buddhism is contained in its sayings - this book presents for the first time over 1200 of these short sayings in a poetic English translation by Soiku Shigematsu, calligraphy by his father, Kiju Shigematsu, abbot of the Shogun-ji Zen temple in Shizuoka. Illustrated. Includes an introduction by the translator, a foreword by Gary Snyder, an appendix with the original Chinese characters and their Japanese romanizations, map, glossary and a bibliographical note. xiv, 178 pp. ISBN: 0-834801590.
Condition: Fine in black cloth with silver lettering in a very near fine dust jacket (bit of sunning to letters on spine of dj)
Book ID: 84623More details Price: $45.00 -
OUTSIDER IN AMSTERDAM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in the series of mystery novels featuring Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam police. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-395-207053.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (spine slant, tears to edges of dj)
Book ID: 46961More details Price: $30.00
![THE RECORDED SAYINGS OF LAYMAN P'ANG: A Ninth-Century Zen Classic. [P`ang chu-shih yu-lu] by P'ang Yun (740-808) Translated from the Chinese by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya and Dana R. Fraser](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/82959---800.jpg?v=1628727799)
