Bombay: Avatar Meher Baba Bombay Centre, [ca. 1960s]. First edition. Saddle-stapled wrappers; 40 pp.; photographic plate of Baba. Published after 1965 but before Baba's death in 1969. Includes a life sketch of Meyer Baby and messages on love, obedience, world peace, hope, silence, etc. Vertical crease down center of the... More about Who Is Meher Baba? [cover title
Hyderabad, India: S. Venugopal Sharma for the Academy of Gandhian Studies, 1981. In the original staplebound printed wrappers; 64 pp. Contents include an editorial entitled "From Politics to People;" an article on next steps for the Sarva Seva Sangh; "Comprehensive Study on Nuclear Weapons: A Summary;" "Gandhi and Yoga;" "The... More about Gandhi Vigyan: Journal of the Academy of Gandhian Studies, Volume Five, Number One, October, 1981
London: George Ronald, 1971. First edition. Octavo. Brown cloth with gilt spine; xiii, [6], 4-560 pp.; photographic plates; dust jacket. This is the second book in what was a planned trilogy portraying the lives of the three Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith. A biography drawing on both Persian and..... More about 'Abdu'l-Bahá: The Centre of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh
Tiruvannamalai, South India: T. N. Venkataraman, 1968. Fifth impression. 12mo.; card wrappers; xi, 78 pp.; photographic frontis of the Maharshi. Reprints three chapters from Paul Brunton’s A Search in Secret India (1934), an account of his pilgrimage to India. The chapters reprinted here provide the most detail of his acquaintance... More about The Maharshi and His Message
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1928. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 63 pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. The Origin of Chinese Civilization II. The Meaning of Confucius III. The Celestial Empire IV. China in the Middle Ages V. Europe’s Dark Record in China... More about The Strange Civilizations of China and India. Asiatic Culture Personified in Buddha and Confucius...
London: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982. Reprint. Octavo. Faux crushed morocco ornately printed in gilt; red top-stain and endpapers; 127 pp.; frontispiece of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. "It is believed that this is the first reprinting since 1921 when the Bahá'í Publishing Society of Chicago published an American ed. First published in 1912. Printed..... More about 'Abdu'l-Bahá in London: Addresses and Notes of Conversation
London: The Mazdaznan Association, 1935. First edition. Square 4to (24.5 x 19 cm); blue cloth stamped in gilt; various pagination, but most issues run 20-24 pp.; photographs, adverts. A scarce, specially bound run of the first twelve issues of the organ of the Mazdaznan Association. Edited by Capt. William Plenderleith... More about The Mazdaznan Call, Devoted to the Science, Philosophy and Art of Life: The Official Organ of the...
Philadelphia: The Golden Lotus Press, 1947. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled, mimeographed wrappers, 159-175 pp (printed rectos only). Chipping to wrappers, heavier to rear wrapper which is detached; darkening to wrapper edges and dampstain along spine. A Good, complete copy. Less than a dozen institutions hold scattered issues in WorldCat. A single... More about The Golden Lotus, Vol. 4, October, 1947
Philadelphia: The Golden Lotus Press, 1948. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled, mimeographed wrappers, 92-112 pp. Light toning and wear to wrappers, but a VG copy of a fragile magazine. Less than a dozen institutions hold scattered issues in WorldCat. A single issue of the monthly Buddhist magazine published by William J. Leslie... More about The Golden Lotus, Vol. 5, No. 5, 1948