Psychological Commentaries On the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky
London: Vincent Stuart, 1952.
First trade edition, first printing. [viii], 371;[vii], [372]-777; [viii], [778]-1226 pp. Three volumes. Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards lettered in gilt at the spines. Near Fine with wrinkle to cloth of Volume III rear board and light toning to contents. In Very Good+ unclipped dust jackets with light soiling, bookseller's label to front flap of each jacket, light chipping to spine ends with small hole at spine panel of Volume II. Nice shape overall. The collected fundamental ideas of the system of esotericists George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and Pyotor Deminanovich Ouspensky. These texts include lectures given by Maurice Nicoll, a Fourth Way esoteric teacher and friend of Carl Jung. Two later volumes in the series would be published by Stuart in 1955 and 1956.
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