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Strauss (C.T.) The Buddha and His Doctrine
£135
London, William Rider & Son, 1923.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A short popular account of the Buddha’s life, doctrine, ethics and the Brotherhood, with a closing ‘In Defence of Buddhism’. Charles Theodore Strauss (1852–1937) was the first Western convert known to have taken Buddhist refuge publicly on American soil, at Chicago on 26 September 1893.
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Later ownership inscription to front free endpaper; cloth and jacket very good.
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