Way Zen by Watts Alan, First Edition (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softback,100pp. A selection of Watts early radio talks. VG.

Envoi rapide dos frottés tranches fânées intérieur assez propre bonne tenue. 12 954x1 778x19 558cm. 1980. Broché. 256 pages. Etat correct.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. Stiff blue illus. wraps. One stress crease along firm, square binding, text block edges typically tanned. 252 pp. Underlining and some notations through the first 100 pages, otherwise unmarked. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slight crease to endpapers. Based upon selections from Watts's early radio talks, and sessions from two of his most compelling seminars in the mid-sixties. As described in Jack Kerouac's "Dharma Blues", Zen had a strong appeal to the Beat generation. In this collection of essays--based on a selection of radio talks and lectures given in the late 1950s and early 1960s--philosopher Watts explores the many aspects of Zen and Eastern thought that served as an inspiration for the Beat generation.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 252 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: NF (3 dog-eared pages at bottom; mild, even toning throughout)/na (paperback); carce in this condition. 1st Ed, THUS, 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing (NAP). All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text is in Italian. Translated by Lucio Antonicelli. First Italian edition. Foxing on top edge, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. ; 246 pages B00DDNS472.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, later printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Early printing. Evergreen E-219. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.35.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An early copy of the author's classic work in beautiful black cloth with dulled gilt to type and characters on front cover. Some light foxing to top page ends and a few spots to others. Previous owner's name, occasion and date to ffep and some tanning/age discoloration to peripheries of endpapers. Sharp corners and solid binding. Jacket is price-clipped with one inch split to top of rear spine crease. Tanning to spine and edges of flaps and light wear to spine ends. 2nd Printing.

First American Edition, second printing (five months after the first). Original black cloth with two Chinese characters in gilt to front, title lettering to spine, binding tight and square, contemporary owner inscription to first free endpaper with 1958 date. With the unclipped dust-jacket (showing publisher's price of $4.95 at front flap) Pages lightly toned with a small stain at the head of fly-leaf. Jacket slighty stained and nicked but nothing missing. A VG+ copy. Important work on Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy by the British philosopher and religious scholar Alan Watts. It played a major role in introducing Buddhism to a young, Western audience. The work is divided into two sections, the first deals with the background and historical development of Zen Buddhism, while the second focuses on its principles and practices. Watts traces the origin of Zen Buddhism to a synthesis of Chinese Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism and introduces the reader to a variety of Eastern philosophical concepts such as Wuwei, Middle Way and Anatman. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (1957.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 236 pages. The book is in very good condition some slight shelf wear and slight spotting due to age to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight inscription on front paste down. Otherwise interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in fair condition with some shelf wear, some chipping and rubbing to edges. Toning due to age. Price clipped. Pictures available upon request. ".tremendously insightful, with clarity and deep insight.the style charms the reader, making the reading pleasant. Replete with insight and wisdom, and the narration is masterful." Brown spine/Black text. #034252 Size: 8vo. Zen Philosophy / Spirituality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 236 pages, 8vo. First Edition, First Printing, with no later printed indicated on copyright page. Jacket price unclipped: $4.75. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with gilt lettering along spine and front cover. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many tears and missing pieces along edges and spine, some creasing and water damage, chipping. DJ in mylar. Spine is lightly cocked, corners and bumped, light tanning. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Fair-plus condition.

Sabro Hasegawa (illustrator). New York: Pantheon:, 1957. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, 236 pp. Cover artwork by: Sabro Hasegawa A clean, straight and tight copy with vintage (Samuel Weiser) booksellers sricker neatly affixed to front paste-down. Jacket complete with original $4.75 price intact. Lightly chipped at head of front panel and with about a quarter-inch chip at head of spine panel. Jacket dusted, lightly soiled ands rubbed. First edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Pantheon, New York. 1966. 236 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as "one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world, " and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 236 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Softcover. Signed by author in English and in an Asian alphabet, also signed by former owner, with some pen markings and underlining throughout the book. Pages have tanned with age. Moderate cover wear, water stain at the top, yellowing.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with dulling to gilt and light edge wear, pages toned and former owner name erased from front free endpaper still slightly visible. In a Good unclipped dust jacket, which is soiled, toned and edge worn, short split to the front spine joint, darkening to the spine with staining.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [3], 3-236, [2] pp. Black cloth with two writing characters in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with two double-sided plates of black and white photographs. A contemporary receipt for the book laid in from Reed College. A cultural and philosophical history of Zen Buddhism. Alan Watts Organization, "Alan Watts". Alan Watts wrote prolifically about eastern philosophy and the concept of Zen, and helped to popularize several concepts of Eastern philosophy to a western readership. His work was intended to be accessible to those with a scholarly bent and to those without one. Watts also wrote several texts on comparative religion, and had a keen insight into human culture and thought across the globe. Very Good or better with a small name on the free front endpaper, light foxing to the pastedowns, top textblock and to the jacket's reverse. Jacket's spine panel and folds toned.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's saffron colored boards lettered and decorated in black. Near Fine with lean to binding, light soiling and light foxing to textblock edge. SIngle word in text underlined in ink and several hinges over-opened. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine, light soiling and light offsetting to panels. A great copy of this scarce Zen Buddhism treatise.