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  • THE RAINMAN'S THIRD CURE: An Irregular Education. by Coyote, Peter.
    Coyote, Peter.
    THE RAINMAN'S THIRD CURE: An Irregular Education.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A reflective memoir in which Coyote describes the mentors who shaped him - a violent, intimidating father, a be-bop Bass player, an ex game-warden who initates him into the laws of nature, a gay dancer in Martha Grahams company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuanas, beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice, and others. His initial flirtation with Zen deepens into a life-long avocation, and his ordination as a priest. "Through Zen, Coyote discovers a third option that offers an alternative to both the worlds of Love and Powers correlatives of status seeking and material wealth." Photographs, notes. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1619024960.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight dampstaining affecting the upper edge of the rear board and the interior of the dj)

    Book ID: 85991
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  • HUNGRY GHOSTS. by Dunlap, Susan.
    Dunlap, Susan.
    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: 48778
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  • THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth. by Goldberg, Natalie.
    Goldberg, Natalie.
    THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie Goldberg candidly depicts her father Ben, an old-fashioned man's man who knew no boundaries - a trait that is at once his greatest strength and most profound weakness. In capturing the essence of this larger than life Jewish bartender, she reveals the intricacies of a precarious father-daughter relationship. The tenuous relationship with her father leads her in many directions and ultimately to Dainin Katagiri Roshi, a dynamic, celebrated Zen Master. In light of an eye-opening discovery that shakes her ideal of this beloved teacher, Goldberg revisits the many years of loyal practice under Roshi's guidance. Elegantly weaving these tales together, this…

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    New York: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie Goldberg candidly depicts her father Ben, an old-fashioned man's man who knew no boundaries - a trait that is at once his greatest strength and most profound weakness. In capturing the essence of this larger than life Jewish bartender, she reveals the intricacies of a precarious father-daughter relationship. The tenuous relationship with her father leads her in many directions and ultimately to Dainin Katagiri Roshi, a dynamic, celebrated Zen Master. In light of an eye-opening discovery that shakes her ideal of this beloved teacher, Goldberg revisits the many years of loyal practice under Roshi's guidance. Elegantly weaving these tales together, this story is finally a search for truth." INSCRIBED on the title page "For Jennifer" with a drawing of a heart. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0733993.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 47882
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  • THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth. by Goldberg, Natalie.
    Goldberg, Natalie.
    THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie Goldberg candidly depicts her father Ben, an old-fashioned man's man who knew no boundaries - a trait that is at once his greatest strength and most profound weakness. In capturing the essence of this larger than life Jewish bartender, she reveals the intricacies of a precarious father-daughter relationship. The tenuous relationship with her father leads her in many directions and ultimately to Dainin Katagiri Roshi, a dynamic, celebrated Zen Master. In light of an eye-opening discovery that shakes her ideal of this beloved teacher, Goldberg revisits the many years of loyal practice under Roshi's guidance. Elegantly weaving these tales together, this…

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    New York: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie Goldberg candidly depicts her father Ben, an old-fashioned man's man who knew no boundaries - a trait that is at once his greatest strength and most profound weakness. In capturing the essence of this larger than life Jewish bartender, she reveals the intricacies of a precarious father-daughter relationship. The tenuous relationship with her father leads her in many directions and ultimately to Dainin Katagiri Roshi, a dynamic, celebrated Zen Master. In light of an eye-opening discovery that shakes her ideal of this beloved teacher, Goldberg revisits the many years of loyal practice under Roshi's guidance. Elegantly weaving these tales together, this story is finally a search for truth." SIGNED on the title page with a drawing of a heart. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0733993.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 65703
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  • THE WILD, WHITE GOOSE, VOLUME II; The Diary of a Female Zen Priest. by Jiyu-Kennett, Roshi.
    Jiyu-Kennett, Roshi.
    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: 71464
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  • 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
    P'ang Yun (740-808) Translated from the Chinese by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya and Dana R. Fraser
    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: 82959
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  • Sagan, Miriam
    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: 29662
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  • Shainberg, Lawrence.
    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: 26093
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  • OUTSIDER IN AMSTERDAM. by van de Wetering, Janwillem.
    van de Wetering, Janwillem.
    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: 46961
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