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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Sa gha, 1967. Fourth edition. A collection of speeches made by the Indian spiritual leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Sewn wrappers (4 ” x 7”), 127, [3] p. In English. Some rubbing and creasing wrappers, one penned note to the back of the last page. No copies of..... More