Lot 118
Alpert, Richard. Baba Ram Dass (Author)
Lot 118 Details
Alpert, Richard. Baba Ram Dass (Author)
FROM BINDU TO OJAS (BE HERE NOW), FIRST EDITION (LIMITED EDITION BOXED-SET)
San Cristobal, New Mexico: Lama Foundation, 1970. Soft cover, printed on brown paper, bound with twine. Lacking “Cook Book” and record. Un-numbered, published in an edition of 300. Contained in a printed cardboard box
Overall 12.75" x 13" x 2" — 32.4 x 33 x 5.1 cm.
Estimate $300-$400
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Provenance:
Ex-libris Janine Sade, N.Y. inscribed to the original exterior of the cardboard shipping box
Note:
Alpert’s guidebook to enlightenment, his first work as Ram Dass and a counterculture landmark. It’s subsequent success as a best seller under the title “Be Here Now” helped establish the Lama Foundation in Taos and brought oriental mystical philosophy to mass audiences in the West.