All and Everything by G. Gurdjieff
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All and Everything by G.I. Gurdjieff
All and Everything, primarily known through its first series, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950) by G.I. Gurdjieff, is a massive, allegorical, and philosophical work aimed at destroying the reader's false beliefs about existence. It uses a cosmic story of the traveler Beelzebub advising his grandson to expose the mechanical "waking sleep" of humanity, offering a methodology for spiritual awakening and "work on oneself".
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950. First US edition. 6.75 x 4.5 x 1.6", hardbound in blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, 1238 pages.
Subscribers' edition with label pasted in stating 'This is Copy No.150 Of the First Edition of the First Series of the Writings of G. Gurdjieff This edition has been made possible by those who had benefitted from his ideas and who wished to assist in the publication of his works. This copy was subscribed for by C Newman. Copy number and subscriber's name are hand written in. Gurdjieff's name is a printed signature.
Condition: Clean, unmarked text pages, firm binding, minimal dust soiling to top and bottom of text block – an excellent copy of this scarce subscribers’ edition. Dust jacket with creasing to upper front, 2.5 x 1” sized loss at upper back and small tear at bottom edge, slight rubbing and creasing to extremities of spine.
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