Alan Watts, Signed (27 results)

Inscribed by author (Alan S Watts) on title page: "To Peggy and Bruce" and then signed by author. Otherwise, inside is clean and unmarked. Creasing at corners. See photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. A clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. Sign and inscribed by the author; Cedric Dickens. Clothbound in blue. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: Good. Original grey cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to. Signed with small dedication by Alan S. Watts on first free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 110 pages. 16 pages of b&w plates. Foreword by Monica Dickens; Postscript by Cedric Dickens. Number 992 in a limited edition of 2000, signed and inscribed by both Alan S. Watts and Cedric Dickens on the title page. Good in Good jacket. Text tanned at the edges; three leaves (pages 11-16) creased in the top corner; small foxed streak on the top edge. Jacket has faded a bit at its spine and picked up a little creasing along its top. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Light wear to the dust jacket, signed by the author, various pieces of ephemera related to Dickens and Gad's Hill pasted inside. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Signed by Cedric Dickens & Alan S Watts and dedication to title page. The dustwrapper is light rubbed with minimal wear. The red boards are clean with bright lettering to the spine, Mild foxing to top and bottom page edges. The binding is firm. The pages are clean and appear crease free. This book has 110 pages. All in all a nice example of this book. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 18cm), xvi, 255pp. Text illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. This is one of 1000 numbered copies (this is copy number 557) signed and inscribed by Cedric Charles Dickens. ISBN 0950838713.

FIRST EDITION. Half title, illus. Orig. red cloth. v.g. in d.w. Signed presentation copy, 'To Jean and Walter Hughes - With every best wish for your new life in Spain. Alan S. Watts'. With a further inscription, from Dickens's great grandson, 'Bless you both, Cedric Charles Dickens'. October 1989.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. A near dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Daddy -- with much love from its author -- Alan, November 3, 1972." With his name in Japanese characters and his chop stamp in red. Obviously an exceptional association in and of itself, but more so because his father, Laurance W. Watts, writes the foreword to the book. It begins: "A foreword by a father to his son's autobiography may not be unique but it must surely be something a rarity." What follows is a moving, quite charming reflection on his son's growth, inclinations, and legacy. This father concludes, "Finally, he has done more perhaps than other writer to open the eyes of the West to the spiritual significance of Eastern religions and philosophies and to show that the Truth is not the monopoly of any one school of religious or philosophic thought." It's well said. Alan Watts remains perhaps the foremost promoter of Zen, Hinduism, and Taoism in the West and was a central figure of the counter culture of the 60s. This book is his remembrance of his Christian upbringing in England and his explorations toward Eastern thought and religion. He died the year after this book's publication in 1973. Octavo in orange cloth. Very good with light soiling to lower board edges and trace foxing to top. In a very good dust jacket with sunning to spine that drifts onto the front panel and some loss to spine ends. Uncommon signed, and an exceptional, quite significant association copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Signed by Alan Watts on the front free endpaper, inscribed "To Donald, with warmest greetings from its author - Alan. First edition. Signed by Alan Watts on the front free endpaper, iThe Donald in the inscription is Donald M. Gates, whose sticker is below the inscription, and his bookplate is on the front pastedown. Except for Donald's sticker and bookplate, book is As New. Jacket is Very Good+ with light edgewear, in plastic protective cover. Inscribed by Author(s).

RINALDO (Händeloper) Programmheft Gastspiel der Handel Opera Society London o.J., 22 SS. Pb. 8° mit Fotos und Kurzbiografien der Sänger, ordentlich erhalten - von 5 britischen Sängern/innen eigenhändig signiert.

First Edition. Containing many illustrations by the masters of Pickwickian art amongst whom are included Seymour, Buss, Phiz, Crowquill & Banbery. Foreword by Elliot Engel. Pp. xvi+256(last blank), pictorial title page, numerous text illustrations (several full page); small cr. 4to; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards; dust wrapper, back panel faintly scuffed; Dickens Publishing for the Dickens House, London, 2001. First edition, being number 382 of 1,000 copies. *With a long signed inscription (to Ann Robinson and others) by Cedric Charles Dickens on page iii, plus another brief inscription from him at the end of the Preface and his name label on the upper pastedown. Cedric Charles Dickens was a great-grandson of Charles Dickens. A handwritten postcard to Ann Robinson, also from Cedric Dickens and with his address label affixed, is loosely inserted. Signed.

First Edition. Foreword by Monica Dickens. Postscript by Cedric Charles Dickens. Pp. 110+[2](advertisement, verso blank), 16 plates, title page vignette; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; the free endpapers faintly offset; Cedric Dickens/Elvendon Press, Goring-on-Thames, Reading, 1989. First edition. *Inscribed and signed to Ann (Robinson) on the title page by the author and by Cedric Charles Dickens, dated 1989 and 1990. Signed again by Cedric Dickens on the final text page. Alan Watts was the Honorary General Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship. He gives many details of Dickens' house at Gad's Hill: 'how the billiard table was illuminated, what measures were taken to stop thefts from the wine cellar, where the flag was kept which flew when Dickens was at home' [wrapper blurb]. Dickens bought Gad's Hill Place, on the Old Dover Road near Rochester, in 1855 and lived in the house, off and on, for fifteen years. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Sixth Printing. Mass market. 4.25 x 7 in. Very good in original pictorial wrappers with sunning and faint creasing to spine, also to the bottom fore-corner of front cover. Light foxing to edge of text block. Inscribed by Watts on the half-title page with Japanese Kanji script below: . The Kanji is likely a phonetic spelling of Alan Watts, the four characters top to bottom can be read a, (l)ran, wa, and tsu. The characters for wa ( ) and tsu ( ) could mean peaceful path in a less literal sense as well. Signed.

First edition. Signed copy of Alan Watts' first book following the 32-page pamphletAn Outline of Zen Buddhismpublished in 1932.The Spirit of Zen,published when Watts was just 21 years old, was an early attempt to interpret and explain the origins of Zen Buddhism for a Western audience. This concise treatise remains one of the most clear-cut explanations of Zen and laid the intellectual groundwork for Watts' later role as the most important popularizer of Eastern philosophy in the English-speaking world. This copy is signed by Watts in his early style, and incredibly scarce thus; a cornerstone of Western Zen literature. 17x12cm, [5], 136pp plus [4]pp publisher's ads at rear. Beautifully signed by Watts on the title page below his printed name. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering and vignette illustration on front cover in illustrated jacket. Boards a touch foxed around edges and with scattered marginal foxing, mainly to first 1/3 or so of the page block. Former owner's gift inscription to ffep. Jacket with foxing and light chipping at spine ends. A very good example of a scarce book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To Evie and Anyas with love from its author - Alan." A warm and personal inscription suggesting a close personal friendship. First Edition, First Printing, with Pantheon, a division of Random House, adopting the Random House First Edition statement with number row running from 2 to 9. Near Fine, small scuffs bottom edge of page block, sunning at edges of boards, in a Near Fine dust jacket, narrow 1/2" chip top edge rear panel. Laid in is a single page Bulletin from The Society for Comparative Philosophy, Inc. announcing the death of Alan Watts. Watts was the founder and President of the SCP. Coffee cup stain to the bulletin. Alan Watts last book published in his lifetime, SCARCE Signed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard cover with clipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. Signed by Alan Watts, with a personal dedication on FEP. Light shelf and handling wear, including tanning and light blemishes to DJ cover, minor wear to DJ edges, a small closed nick to rear cover head. Red cloth boards are in fine condition and pageblock head is stained a contrasting black to the bright red boards. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Used.

Hardcover. Signed by Alan Watts on the front endpaper, inscribed to former owner. x, 146 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black and red stamping. Third printing. Good, "Lompoc Science of Mind Club" written on paste down next to evidence of removed bookplate. In a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. One of the British philosopher and lecturer's best-known works.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Rare Signed DELUXE COLLECTOR'S EDITION, NUMBER 10/200 COPIES. Large folio with burgundy cloth spine with red and green cloth covered boards, slipcase. Bright full-color endplates by Rick Griffin. 385 pages printed on archival paper. A magnificent and complete full-color recreation in book form of all 12 issues of the legendary psychedelic newspaper originally published in the Haight-Ashbury 1966-1968. The book contains each and every page of all 12 issues printed - in all their original brilliance. "Open any page and you are back on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury at a time when that tiny urban spot was the Olympus of the newborn world." Laid in with the book is a sheet advertising The San Francisco Oracle Facsimile Edition Publication and Book Signing Party, November 17th, 1991. The Oracle was one of the most unique and beautiful publications of the 1960's and is now a cherished legend. The Oracle is remembered for its extraordinary graphic design by major San Francisco artists, its rainbow colors, and cultural explorations and breakthroughs in its articles, interviews and poetry. Writers who appeared in The Oracle include: Gary Snyder, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Alan Watts, Tim Leary, Michael McClure, Norman Mailer, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Rogers, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. Artists include many of the great San Francisco Poster artists such as: Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelly, Bruce Conner, Michael Bowen and Gary Grimshaw. This Collector's Edition belonged to Raymond Knight, a collector of visionary art, and an early supporter of the press (see p. ixx). The title page is SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY ALLEN COHEN with his unique stamp, Michael McClure, and carries an inscription to Raymond Knight. The front color endpapers are signed by Jim Phillips and John Thompson who has drawn a small third-eye caricature. The beautiful color frontispiece for the Collector's Edition is signed by poster artist Rick Griffin. The copyright page is inscribed "with special appreciation to Raymond, Mark Weiman, Publisher." Additionally inscribed or signed by George Tsongas p. 31; Michael McClure above his poem "The God I Worship is a Lion" p.110; Joel Beck p.117; Jim Phillips p. 143; Ami Magill p.169; Gene Grimm p.173; Ami Magill p. 175; and Stephen Gaskin on the rear free endpaper. A unique and important signed association copy. Excellent condition, tiny spot of wear at head of spine, otherwise clean and tight, contents very bright and sharp, a solid volume throughout. The sturdy slipcase has a few small spots of wear and smudging, still very nice. Near Fine, Slip Case Near Fine. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Signed.

Dickens Publishing. London. 2001. DW. First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies, this being number 45. Presentation copy from Cedric Dickens to another member, [Maurice Cocking] "Whiffen, the immortal Bell Ringer and my very good friend. MUFFINS! With best wishes for a very successful year in London! Bless you old fellar. Cedric Charles Dickens. Keep smiling. Christmas 2001". Loosely inserted are two orders of club's proceedings from 2002 and 2005, the latter is also presented and signed from Cedric Dickens to "Whiffen. Do hope the op went well and that we will see you soon - with HERSELF to whom - ALL LOVE. Bless you. Charles Cedric Dickens." 255 pages. Illustrated throughout. Fine in wrapper with very slight shelfwear.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Golds - with best wishes, Alan Watts"; this title is rare inscribed. Watts's "manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence" (jacket blurb) draws on the ancient Hindu philosophy of Vedanta to investigate ideas of the "self". Watts's thesis is that the prevalent idea of the "self" as a separate ego which acts upon a world of objects is false and accords "neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religions of the East" (p. ix). This misconception underlies our misuse of technology and our mistreatment of our environment and contributes to a sensation of alienation from the wider universe. "You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate 'you' to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real 'you' is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For 'you' are the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new" (pp. 117-8). Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in red, gilt, and orange, with stamped design in black, front board stamped in orange, top edge orange, fore edge uncut. With dust jacket. Four pressed leaves loosely inserted. Foot of spine bumped and rubbed; four closed tears to head of unclipped jacket, edges a little chipped and nicked, vertical crease to spine: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alan Watts on the front free endpaper in English and Chinese and inscribed to a former owner. [1], x, 146 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in red and black, red topstain. Very Good with light soiling to cloth and textblock edges, 2 small red ink stains to upper edge impinging slightly on upper margins. Previous owner inscription on front free endpaper covered in whiteout. In a Good price-clipped dust jacket with light toning, soiling, and edgewear, and penciled notes at upper edge of front panel. A signed first edition of one of the British philosopher and lecturer's best-known works.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alan Watts on the front free endpaper in orange marker and inscribed to the former owners, "For Dorothy and Harrison with love from its author - Alan" with his name in Chinese characters below. A zig zag glyph, perhaps a sigil, is written on the verso of the jacket at the spine panel in orange ink, possibly made by Watts. [xvi], 400 pp. Bound in publisher's saffron orange cloth stamped in black and silver. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, slight staining to top edge of text-block, light wear at crown with gift slip laid-in, "Happy Birthday to Dad! After you call last night, I ran to the Quill [Quill and Brush?] and found this for you - a little soul fool before your upcoming visit with Alan Watts. (Maybe he will autograph it.) Can't wait to hear about what he says. Enioy! Nance." In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, small abrasions with closed tearing to spine ends, and light rubbing to covers. Alan Watt's memoir tracking his early days in rural England as a child raised by Christians to his later Eastern religious and philosophical pursuits, signed just a year or so before his death in 1973.

Original pressing on red vinyl with a unique, signed hand-painted sleeve by Alan Watts. MEA - LP1001. Mono. Album is in Very Good condition, thin, light scratch to B side but generally nice; sleeve Good with seam splits repaired with masking tape, rubbed. Includes unprinted inner sleeve. A rare 1958 album by the British popularizer of Eastern spiritual traditions, who began his career as a programmer at KPFA in Berkeley and whose sonorous voice makes his already affable prose delightful. The first side is "Haiku - A Talk," the B side consists of four haiku cycles for the four seasons, accompanied by music.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alan Watts and inscribed to a former owner in both English and Japanese with the author's chop. xii, 209 pp. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with very slight slant to spine, light rubbing and paper residue to covers, dulling to gilt stamping, and light soiling to textblock edges. Occasional pencil underlining to text. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, light edgewear, and worming; book and jacket have left traces on each other. Several fine scratches to front and back panels, black ink to head of spine. Binding firm. Beautifully signed and stamped by the British-born American writer and philosopher, a key counterculture figure who popularized Eastern philosophy in the West. Inscribed to John Boone, whose name and address are written in pencil on the back endpaper verso.

First edition. First edition. Signed by Alan Watts on the front free endpaper, inscribed "To Win and Helen, with love & many thanks from its author - Alan. March 1965" followed by his chop stamp. xiv, 236 pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth with gilt lettering, navy stamping, black topstain. Tiny stain on bottom edge, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, spine panel dulled, light wear, price-clipped. A rare signed book by the amiable British-born scholar of Eastern mysticism.

First hardback edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Robert Macy, with all good wishes from its author - Alan Watts". This title is rare signed. Macy was a Southern Californian osteopath who partially resided in Big Sur, where he befriended several artists and writers, including Watts and Henry Miller. Watts was a prolific and popular public speaker and one of the first people to popularize Buddhist thought in the West. He advocated for the use of psychedelic drugs as a tool to expand one's consciousness. Square quarto. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt and in black relief on gilt ground, front cover lettered in blind. With dust jacket. Macy's discreet address sticker on front pastedown, pink card bookmark from Books in Review, LA, loosely inserted. Lower edges of boards sunned, lower outer corners just bumped, endpapers slightly toned, a few tiny marks to first few leaves; unclipped jacket a little rubbed, edges creased with a few chips and closed tears: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.