Tibetan Book Dead, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Mild Edgewear, Inscription To Friend And Signed By Author, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, Solid Copy. Signed by Authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hard Cover, In Fine Condition. Still Sealed In The Original Manufacturer Plastic Wrap. This Book Is Not Signed. Book.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Third Edition. Third edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to "My brother on the path," Sri Deva Ram Sukul, an author and yogi. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, light toning to the spone and a stain to the bottom corner of the rear panel. The American folklorist and religious scholar W.Y Evans-Wentz first translated the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol, into English in in 1920s. Its title was invented by Wentz due to its similarities with the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and like that work this one has become a widely-read and studied classic of world spirituality.

First Edition. SIGNED BY TIMOTHY LEARY. Illustrated with a designed frontispiece. Square quarto, publisher's cloth, pictorially decorated on the upper and lower covers in green, black, red and white and lettered in colours on the spine panel, the endleaves decorated in red and black with intricate design. 159 pp. A fine copy, beautifully preserved. Rare in this condition and especially signed by the most important of the three authors. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TIMOTHY LEARY, VERY RARE THUS. The authors' statement reflects their interest in how psychedelics can increase awareness and the learning through the experiments they were making at the time. "The drug is only one component of a psychedelic session. Equally important is the mental and spiritual preparation, both before and in the course of taking the drug. The authors find no needed to invent new mental and spiritual materials for this purpose. The great literature of meditation lends itself very well to this use. This particular manual uses for this preparation material from THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. The authors make an important contribution to the interpretation of THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. They show that it is concerned, not with the dead, but with the living. The last section of the manual provides instructions for an actual psychedelic session, under adequate safeguards." Copies of the early works of Leary and Alpert are quite rare, especially signed or inscribed by these early proponents of using psychedelics to enhance awareness and experience.

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. One of the more recognizable books on psychedelic drugs from the 1960s, a guide to navigating death of the ego by three of the most well-known early proponents of the use of LSD. The first printing was 10,000 copies and 60,000 hardcovers were eventually sold (Timothy Leary: A Biography by Robert Greenfield, p. 219) "The authors were engaged in a program of experiments with LSD and other psychedelic drugs at Harvard University until sensational national publicity unfairly concentrating on student interest in the drugs, led to the suspension of the experiments. Since then, the authors have continued their work without academic auspices"-from the front cover. "The Psychedelic Experience was taken so seriously by LSD users that when people failed to have the experience described within its covers, they blamed themselves. Somehow they had failed the acid trip."-Greenfield, p. 219. 159 pages. 8-1/4 by 9-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in illustrated boards with minor wear to the spine ends; no dust jacket, as issued. This is a remarkable copy from the library of Ronald K. Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at UCLA and a major collector of drug-related books. It is inscribed by Leary, "Presented with deepest love to my mother. Tim 9-64." "On October 17, 1978, Abigail Leary died in Springfield at the age of ninety-two.Although she had once been her son's foremost champion and protector, Abigail had had no real contact with him in more than a decade. In his writings, Tim Leary made no mention of her death. Nor did he attend her funeral."-Greenfiedl biography, p. 532.