Heritage of Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha Gautama
by LuZanne, Celina [Celina LuZanne Boozer]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. This suspenseful retelling of the story of the Buddha, "the holy prince who gave up a kingdom to find Cosmic truths," was penned by Alabama native and professional pianist Celina LuZanne Boozer (1903-1982), who according to The University of Alabama University Libraries once attempted to establish an artists colony on Cheaha Mountain. Remarkably, this Buddhist book by way of Alabama was published by the Philosophical Library, a publishing house founded in 1941 by Dagobert D. Runes to publish the voices of European intellectuals after the 1930s diaspora due to racial and religious discrimination which went on to become the publisher of 22 Nobel Prize winners and leading thinkers as diverse as Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Rabindranath Tagore, Bertrand Russell, Paramahansa Yogananda, Albert Schweitzer, and more. In the preface, LuZanne shares her surprising journey, led by her love of music, from born and bred Alabama Christian to Eastern mystic. On the rear flap, she notes that all the original proceeds from the sale of the book went to an Indian mission. An overall quite well-preserved first printing of Celina LuZanne's retelling of the story of Siddhartha Guatama, told "in climactic drama of cinematic delineation and in the rare music of Eastern phraseology."
8 5/8" X 5 5/8". 290pp. Striking green and white pictorial dust jacket designed by Ruby Phillips and Nora S. Devine shows moderate wear, with small tears and chipping to edges and extremities, 1/2" closed tear to rear panel, sunning to spine, and substantial foxing and dust soiling. Price sticker to front flap. Green cloth over boards, with publisher's device in light green to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Mild edgewear to binding, with small tears to head and tail of spine. Foxing and toning to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.
8 5/8" X 5 5/8". 290pp. Striking green and white pictorial dust jacket designed by Ruby Phillips and Nora S. Devine shows moderate wear, with small tears and chipping to edges and extremities, 1/2" closed tear to rear panel, sunning to spine, and substantial foxing and dust soiling. Price sticker to front flap. Green cloth over boards, with publisher's device in light green to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Mild edgewear to binding, with small tears to head and tail of spine. Foxing and toning to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5735
- Title
- Heritage of Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha Gautama
- Author
- LuZanne, Celina [Celina LuZanne Boozer]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Philosophical Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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