GURDJIEFF

Mandala/Unwin, London, 1979, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-04-294106-7.  Trade soft cover, 221 pages including Bibliography and Index.  Very good; some corner and spine edge wear, small corner creases and scrape on rear wrap.  Binding sound.  Prior owner’s info stamped on 1^st page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; some black & white illustrations.  “For more than forty years Kenneth Walker studied the work of Gurdjieff, first with Ouspensky and then with Gurdjieff himself.  He followed Gurdjieff’s advice of ‘Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West and then seek’ and related Gurdjieff’s teaching to Western science and mysticism on the one hand and Eastern disciplines on the other.  Gurdjieff’s concept of man as a self-developing organism embraced many threads, from Gita, Vedanta and Tao, as well as from Sufi and Christian beliefs.’ (from rear wrap)