Published by The First Zen Institute of America, Inc., 1953
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition of the English translation. Pen underlining scattered throughout; previous owner's plate and handwritten date on the first free end page. Pages are a bit yellowed and the page edges are age toned. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket shows some light wear around the edges.
Published by The First Zen Institute of America, Inc, New York, 1953., 1953
Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
H/C with D/J, 26x18cm, 146 pages including index, fold outs, d/j showing foxing, tearing around all edges, tears to spine ends, previous booksellers stamp on inside front cover, ledges showing foxing.
Published by The First Zen Institute of America, New York, 1953
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1of 300 PRESENTATION COPIES. This copy is number 76 presented to Edmund Borden. Original gray cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine and blind embossed stamp on the rear cover. In a brown printed dustjacket with new mylar cover. The jacket is persimmon-juice coated handmade Japanese paper known as Shibugami. It was popular in Japan in feudal times but is rare today. 146 pages with a tipped-in color frontispiece of Daikan Eno Daishi. Bound in at the rear are three large fold-out tables: The Zen Masters of the T'ang Era; The Origins of the Soto, Ummon, and Hogen Sects; and The Rinzi Sect. Ruth Fuller Sasaki was abbess of the Zen temple of Ryosen-an, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, where she served as director of the First Zen Institute of America. This important text was one of the early books Sasaki saw to completion at The First Zen Institute with the help of Philip Yampolsky, Burton Watson, and the poet Gary Snyder. A clean, very good copy with the usual tan offsetting from the jacket flaps to the flyleaves. The dustjacket has shallow chipping along the top edge, small dampstain on the spine bottom, closed diagonal tear on front flap and two short edge tears with old tape mends on the verso. Still quite presentable in a new mylar cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by The First Zen Institiute of America, 1953
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Limited edition #37 of 300 Presentaion copies, this copy presented to Mr. James W. Thompson. Very Good condition book with some dust soiling to edges, bookstore sticker on bottom edge of inside back pastedown,some browning to the front edge folds of the Zen Lineage charts at the back of the book, in a Good to Very Good condition dustjacket with minor chips, small tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight sound copy. No Signature.