Présence du Bouddhisme: France-Asie Revue Mensuelle de Culture et de Synthése 153-157 [Inscribed]

Saigon: France-Asie, [1959]. Softcover, with publisher's Abonnements slip laid in. Octavo (23cm); white pictorial paper wrappers; dustjacket; 1024pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout, with additional fold-out map illustrations. Text in French and English. Almost certainly signed by the editor on the half-title page: "To my friend David Mou'u(?), with my best regards / R.B.L.". Modest shelf-wear and foxing, with soil to wrappers and edges of textblock, soil to p. 219, 1" tear to upper margin of p.833/834, and stain to p.937/938; Good. Dustwrapper, spine-tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Collection of essays includes Thubten Tendzin's "Le permanent Message", Bhikshu Sangharakshita "The Meaning of Orthodoxy in Buddhism", and Dr. André Migot's "Le Bouddhisme en Chine". [87803].