Ouspensky: The Unsung Genius [Ouspensky] Reyner, J. H. [Fine] [Hardcover]

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Printed in Great Britain. [Date from the copyright page.] First Printing. Foreword, Relevant Reading, Bibliography of Major Books by Ouspensky; [viii], 115 pages. The original black cloth is impeccable, with silver lettering on the spine as bright as if just issued. The interior is equally fine---fresh, crisp, and clean. The original printed dustjacket, with a sketch by J. Waterhouse, is unclipped and has a slightly sunned spine. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] ""The name of P. D. Ouspensky is well known in psychological circles as the foremost exponent of the ideas brought from the East by the Caucasian mystic, G. I. Gurdjieff. He has indeed been called the Plato to Gurdjieff's Socrates. [This] narrative necessarily includes occasional personal comment based on forty years experience of the Gurdjieff philosophy as a student and, more recently, as a teacher.""---from the foreword. My father, a philosophy professor, author of books on Wittgenstein and Simone Weil, was a senior Gurdjieff student who took part in informed roundtable discussions about Gurdjieff with John Pentland and Larry Morris. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.