Joyous Cosmology by Watts, First Edition (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1962. 101 pages. First paperback Vintage Books Edition. Foreword by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Wrappers show light wear, including rubbing to spine edges, and faint toning to back cover. Binding is square and tight. Overall a solid copy of this counter culture classic.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. From the collection of New York poet, Tom Savage and may contain minor markings from the poet in the book. We may request additional monies for international shipping, based on actual costs. Cover and/or pages may be lightly soiled/faded/discolored due to age or minor damage.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Foreword by Timothy Leary ("Tune in and Drop out")and Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass) of Harvard University Psychology Department, at the time of the book's publication involved in Harvard's Center for Research in Personality and pioneers in pschedelics. Ex-Libris with library markings and evidence of pocket removal from rear. Jacket and its protective cover were taped at one time to book with cellotape resulting in discoloration where it had touched the endpapers. Jacket price clipped. O/W jacket and book are clean, bright, tight.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Creasing to covers. Some rubbing to extremities.

Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Foreword by Timothy Lear, and Richard Alpert. Fine copy (very light edge wear). 108 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD Unmarked PAGES And Strong BINDING. Edgewear on Dust Jacket. Now protected in mylar. Hardback, Not ex-library or facsimile reprint. Approximately 7 1/2 X 9 1/2. 95 pages.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good in wraps. Owner name, price sticker on FEP.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 108 p. Sound clean unmarked copy rubbing to covers some light wear from use. Small date stamp to first page. Unaccountably rare in first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xix, 94 p. 25 cm. B&w illustrations. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Tears and chips to edges of jacket, esp. upper spine, with rubbing to panels. Book itself has a little discolouration to rear board. Foreword by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert of Harvard University Psychology Department, at the time of the book's publication involved in Harvard's Center for Research in Personality. A classic account of the psychedelic experience, the text is an exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can have on the human psyche.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to, name, else about fine in v.g. d.j.H60's2) considerable pencil underlining, which i consider a plus, somebody actually read the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 4to.black boards.FAIR COPY.ex TIME INC. LIBRARY EDITORIAL COPY.with stamps in a number of places.D.J removed and cut and stapled to f.e.p.spine with call no. label etc.the ultimate Anti-Association 60's copy.(H60's1).

First hardback edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Robert Macy, with all good wishes from its author - Alan Watts". This title is rare signed. Macy was a Southern Californian osteopath who partially resided in Big Sur, where he befriended several artists and writers, including Watts and Henry Miller. Watts was a prolific and popular public speaker and one of the first people to popularize Buddhist thought in the West. He advocated for the use of psychedelic drugs as a tool to expand one's consciousness. Square quarto. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt and in black relief on gilt ground, front cover lettered in blind. With dust jacket. Macy's discreet address sticker on front pastedown, pink card bookmark from Books in Review, LA, loosely inserted. Lower edges of boards sunned, lower outer corners just bumped, endpapers slightly toned, a few tiny marks to first few leaves; unclipped jacket a little rubbed, edges creased with a few chips and closed tears: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.