Alan Watts – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Alan Watts – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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Alan Watts – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book ParadiseAlan Watts – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise

Alan Watts

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Condition: ["Fine"]

Format: Hardcover with Dustjacket (Brodart Archival Covering) 0

Price:
$175.00

Description

Author: David Stuart

Title: Alan Watts: The Rise and Decline of the Ordained Shaman of the Counterculture

Publisher: Chilton Book Company, 1976

Edition: First edition

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Very good; clean, tight copy in publisher’s dust jacket, now protected in Brodart archival covering.

This first edition biography captures Alan Watts at the height of his influence as one of the key interpreters of Eastern philosophy for Western audiences. David Stuart traces Watts’s journey from Anglican seminarian to celebrated counterculture sage, exploring his role in popularizing Zen, Vedanta, and Taoism in the West.

Illustrated with photographs and rich in anecdotal detail, this volume offers a nuanced portrait of a complex thinker whose work helped shape the spiritual landscape of the 1960s and 70s. A scarce first edition for collectors of Alan Watts, counterculture history, and modern spirituality.

tion of one of the most influential spiritual teachers of modern times.
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