The Wooden Fish: Basic Sutras & Gathas of Rinzai Zen

by Kanetsuki Gutetsu, Gary Snyder

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

No Place : The First Zen Institute of America in Japan, 1961. First edition. One of only 500 copies printed. McNeil A5 56pp. Japanese square-sewn brown wrappers. A Good or better copy. Typical writing in margins, perhaps more so than in other copies, with rear blank filled with written explanation of Heart Sutra, small stain there. Title page corner-clipped. A scarce early Gary Snyder item. Item #171127006

• Binding: Wrappers

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