The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, W.Y. Evans-Wentz
First edition, first printing of W. Y. Evans-Wentz's translation and commentary on one of the foundational texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Long regarded as a classic introduction to Tibetan spiritual thought, *The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation* helped bring Buddhist philosophy to a broad English-speaking audience during the mid-twentieth century.
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. Publisher's original green cloth boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; pp. lxiv, 261, [1]. Owner's bookplate to front pastedown, else a fine copy in a very good or better, unclipped dust jacket showing traces of shelfwear and a couple small closed tears. A very presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.