Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press / Bollingen Series, 1968
ISBN 10: 069109750X ISBN 13: 9780691097503
Seller: The Book Exchange, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. See photos. Stain on page ends. Contents otherwise unmarked. Name and inscription from previous owner on end paper. Fraying, nicks, tears to dust jacket edges. DJ wrapped in mylar.Soiling and rubbing to book boards. Hinges good.
Hardcover. Limited Edition; Collector's Edition. Book condition is Near Fine, bound in full, genuine leather with gilt accents, 22kt gold page edges and a hubbed spine. Smyth sewn, interior vaunts moire end papers, acid-neutral paper (won't yellow or become brittle over time) and silk ribbon page marker. Weak bow to boards. Interior is clean and unmarked. Small 8vo.
First Edition. 2 vols. First edition in English, first printing. Foreword by Carl G. Jung. Original cloth, near fine, in chipped and rubbed dustjackets, with a small repair to the spine of volume 1, worn slipcase. From many varieties, these jackets have rear flap ads reassuringly dated ?1950? and married reprints don?t. The I Ching a masterpiece of Chinese Literature with all you can handle on multiple levels including a fortune telling game for the sleeping uninitiated and a stairway into the mind of Confucius for the conscious and awakened. The origins of I Ching were as a divination text from the 10th-4th century BC. This edition was originally translated into German by Wilhelm in 1924, then into English here by Baynes; considered the first accurate and culturally sympathetic translation. One of the oldest continuous philosophical and divinatory traditions, a text that bridges ancient Chinese cosmology with practical wisdom over the course of three millennia. As both an oracle and a philosophical treatise, it embodies the fundamental Chinese concept of change as the only constant in existence, offering a systematic approach to understanding the dynamic interplay between opposing forces (yin and yang) that govern all phenomena. Its influence extends far beyond divination into Chinese philosophy, literature, politics, and daily life, making it one of the most consulted books in human history and a cornerstone text for understanding Chinese thought, from Confucianism to Taoism.
Published by Rider & Company for The Buddhist Society, London, 1948
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Reprint; first edition thus. Signed by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki on the front free endpaper and dated 1953. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint lean to spine, light foxing to textblock edge and browning to endsheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and light rubbing. With a forward by C. G. Jung.