Zen and Japanese Culture

D. T. Suzuki

1959 Edition, thus.  Bollingen Foundation / Pantheon Books, New York
Octavio in FINE condition.  Bollingen Series LXIV. Gilt letters on a black spine over gold full cloth boards, Bollingen emblem stamped in gilt on the front with a FINE Brodart protected dust jacket.    pp. xxiv+478, 68 plates (3 large folding and 1 double-page), chronology, appendices, bibliography, index.  Revised and enlarged. 
This is certainly one of the definitive works on Japanese culture articulating and clarifying long misunderstood mysteries.  Suzuki expresses better than anyone the depth and influence of Zen Buddhism on Japanese culture that has allowed a subtlety and accomplishment rarely matched in world history.  This cloth edition is out of print and at the high end of the bookmaking art.  You’ll probably never see a copy of this book in such good condition.  Indispensable.