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Burton, Sir Richard; Arbuthhnot, F.F. (Trans.).
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.
Ed. with pref. by W.G. Archer; Intro. by K.M. Panikar.
Allen and Unwin 1963 rep. 295pp., top corner of front cover sl. stained else good and sound. 10.00
Burton, Sir Richard; Arbuthhnot, F.F. (Trans.).
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.
Ed. with pref. by W.G. Archer; Intro. by K.M. Panikar.
BCA. 1988 rep. 295pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Burton, Sir Richard. (Trans.)
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi.
Ed. and intro. by Alan Hull Walton.
Guild Pub. rep. 1988 Appendix, 271pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Ch'eng-en, Wu.
Monkey.
Trans. from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.
RU. 1944 Illus., 314pp., top piece of ffep. torn off, sp. sunned else good. 3.00
Dawood, N.J. (Trans. and intro.)
Aladdin and other Tales from The Thousand and One Nights.
Penguin 1957 210pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Dutt, Romesh C. (Condensed into English Verse).
The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.
Dent EML 1972 rep. 250g. Glossary, 335pp., card covers, sl. rubbed/marked, inscr. else good. 5.00
The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Ed. by N.K. Sandars.
Penguin Classics 1964 rep. 100g. 128pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Graham, A.C. (Trans. and intro.)
Poems of the Late T'Ang.
Penguin Classics 1965 173pp., card covers, inscr., else good. 3.50
Jennings, William.
The Shi King: The Old Poetry Classic of the Chinese.
A close metrical translation with annotations.
Sir John Lubbocks Hundred Books Series.
Routledge nd. c. 1891 383pp., orig. olive cloth, good. 8.00
Mascaro, Juan. (Trans. from the Sanskrit)
The Bhagavad Gita.
Penguin Classics 1966 rep. 150g. 121pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Mascaro, Juan. (Trans. from the Pali)
The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection.
Penguin Classics 1984 rep. 100g. 92pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Mascaro, Juan. (Trans. from the Sanskrit)
The Upanishads.
Penguin Classics 1981 rep. 140pp., card covers, some underlining else good. 2.50
Morris, Ivan (Trans.).
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.
Penguin Classics 1971 400g. Biblio., 411pp., card covers, good. 5.00
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. (Intro.)
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit.
Penguin Classics 1980 rep. Glossary, 357pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Oldenberg, Hermann; Fischel, Richard (Ed.).
The Thera and Theri-Gatha: Stanzas ascribed to Elders of the Buddhist Order of Recluses.
Oxford: Pali Text Society. Rep. 550g. Appendix, 250pp., good. 10.00
Peter Pauper Press.
The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose.
PPP. 1960 Illus., 61pp., decorated boards in d/w. Small inscr., else good. 3.50
Ranelagh, E.L.
The Past We Share: The Near Eastern Ancestry of Western Folk Literature.
Quartet Books 1979 650g. Plates, notes, index, 278pp., good in d/w. 10.00
Robinson, G.W. (Trans. and intro.)
Poems of Wang Wei.
Penguin Classics 1973 144pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Shah, Ikbal Ali. (The Sirdah)
The Spirit of the East: An Anthology of the Scriptures of the East.
The Octagon Press 1973 rep. 276pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Shah, Idries.
Wisdom of the Idiots.
The Octagon Press 1970 350g. 179pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 3.50
Sinclair, Gregg M. (Intro.)
The Roof Garden by Kunio Kishida; Living Koheiji by Sensaburo Suzuki; The Savior of the Moment by Kwan Kikuchi; The Passion by Saneatsu Mushakoji.
Translated from the Japanese by Noborn Hidaka.
Greenwood Press 1971 450g. 178pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 12.00
Stryk, Lucien; Ikemoto, Takashi.
The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry.
Penguin 1981 200g. 160pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Waddell, Helen.
Lyrics from the Chinese.
Constable 1921 rep. 200g. 41pp., good. 4.00
Waley, Arthur (Trans.).
Chinese Poems selected from: More Translations from the Chinese; 270 Chinese Poems; The Book of Songs; The Temple.
RU 1949 350g. Index, 215pp., good. 5.00
Waley, Arthur.
The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon.
Allen and Unwin 1979 rep. 93pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 3.50
Waley, Arthur (Trans.).
Monkey: Wu Ch'eng-en.
Unwin Paperbacks 1979 200g. 336pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Yohannan, John D.
A Treasury of Asian Literature.
New American Library 1960 rep. Biblio., chronologies, 432pp., card covers, sp. creased else good. 3.50