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Ramakrishna and his Disciples.
de ISHERWOOD, Christopher
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London, United Kingdom
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New York: Simon and Schuster,, 1965. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Isherwood immersed himself in the study of the Vedanta Scriptures during the Second World War, and was an active member of the Society for the following 35 years, occasionally lecturing at the Hollywood and Santa Barbara temples, and following the guidance of the Hindu priest, Swami Prabhavananda, for over 30 years. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, om symbol in blind to front board, top edge brown. With dust jacket. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 32 illustrations in the text. Negligible fading to board edges, top edge of book block sunned, light offsetting to endpapers, an excellent copy, square and bright, in the very good, slightly soiled, jacket, unclipped, small skinned patch with short closed tears to foot of front panel, nicks to foot of rear panel, small chip to head.
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- Título
- Ramakrishna and his Disciples.
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- ISHERWOOD, Christopher
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- New York: Simon and Schuster,
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- 1965
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Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Soiled
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
