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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: $13.50 -
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: First printing.
Boston: Shambala, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journey deep into the heart of American and Japanese Zen Buddhism, culminating with Matthiessen's 1982 pilgrimage to Japan with his Zen teacher. Foreword by Hakuyu T. Maezumi. Index. xii, 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-552512.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (prev owner's name, some edgewear to dj especially at top of spine.)
Book ID: 54054More details Price: $17.50 -
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 -
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 -
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