Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel
First American edition, first printing of Herrigel's important account of studying Kyūdō, a form of Japanese archery, when he lived in Japan in the 1920s. The book is credited with introducing Zen to Western audiences in the late 1940s and 1950s and the title has served as an inspiration for countless other works, most notably Robert Pirsig's 1974 book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. With an introduction by D.T. Suzuki, translated by R.F.C. Hull.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. Publisher's original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards; pp. 109. A very good copy in a good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, minor wear to boards. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers, scattered light foxing, else internally clean. Jacket shows sheflwear and rubbing with a few light stains, creasing along spine. Protected in archival mylar.