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The Secret of Everlasting Life: First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text of Immortality - Hardcover
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This a translation from the Chinese 2nd century "Can Dong Qi", the earliest text on transformation, with original Chinese commentaries. The author's own commentary explains the intricacies of the text's allegorical symbolism for the Western reader while the text itself and the original commentaries are full of practical information and advice about the human transformation process.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original hardcover in jacket, 293 pages, index, a few instructional b + w illustrations. Some light reading wear, few dog-eared pages. Overall, solid and bright. Seller Inventory # ABE-1760826180362
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st edition, thus. 1st edition, thus. A Near Fine copy in Very Good + dust jacket. 8vo., vi, (i), 293 pp., illustrated with drawings and diagrams. Bound in burgundy cloth in red, illustrated dust jacket. Upper tips bumped, effecting the dj, Light edge wear. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 32866
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The Secret of Everlasting Life : The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on Immortality
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Element Books Ltd/Element, Inc., Shaftesbury Dorset/Rockport MA/Brisbane Queensland, 1994
ISBN 10: 1852305681
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Shaftesbury Dorset/Rockport MA/Brisbane Queensland: Element Books Ltd/Element, Inc., 1994. FIRST PRINTING - NEW / Unread old stock (see scan). Elements Books Ltd, reply card laid-in as called for. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. Illus. by Textual illustrations by Jona Mason. 8vo size - over 9¼" tall. Seller Inventory # 933157