BIG Gurdjieff Collection: 97 Rare Book Lot; Reference, Prime & Secondary Sources

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G. I. G U R D J I E F FRare Collection; 97 Books 1 VHS Tape LotThe combined weight is about 82 pounds. A charge of 15 dollars has been added because the maximum weight media mail allows for one package is 70 pounds. The lot will inevitably have to be sent in two boxes, and be 13 pounds more in weight, which increases the co st• Gurdjieff: 25 books (15 pounds 10 ounces)• Ouspensky: 11 books (7 pounds 4 ounces)• Obscure Mysticism: 20 books (21 pounds 2 ounces)• Assorted Stack 1 : 21 books (20 pounds 10 ounces)• Assorted Stack 2 : 21 books (18 pounds 4 ounces)This is the library of a person who was a founder of a prominent Gurdjieff society in New York City. She translated his works under a pseudonym (her own surname is prominent enough to raise eyebrows) and was quite an authority in all things of this bent. This collection is the work of a life time and an opportunity unlikely to repeat itself.Partial listThe Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, Astara Foundation (LA, California), Hand-bound, 1961 Witness: the Story of a Search, John Godolphin Bennett, Dharma Book Company, 1962; FIRST EDITION (NO DJ) Meetings with Remarkable Men, Second Series; G.I. Gurdjieff, E.P. Dutton, PB, 1963; FIRST EDITION (NO DJ) Gurdjieff Remembered, Fritz Peters; Victor Gollancz, London, HC, 1965 FIRST EDITION (NO DJ) The Teachers of Gurdjieff; Rafael LeFort, Victor Gollancz, HC, 1966 Meetings with Remarkable Men; G.I. Gurdjieff, E.P. Dutton, PB, 1969 Guide and Index to Gurdjieff's 'All and Everything'; Evangeline Plewes- Toronto Society for Traditional Studies, Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd. Red Cloth HC, 1971 Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff; Olga de Hartmann, Penguin, PB, 1972 Gurdjieff: Making a New World; J.G. Bennett, Turnstone Books, Red Cloth HC, 1973 Gurdjieff: Views from the Real World; 'As recollected by his pupils, with a foreword by Jeanne de Salzmann'; E.P. Dutton, HC, 1973 George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff; P.L. Travers, Traditional Studies Press, Pamphlet, 1973 Views from the Real World, G.I. Gurdjieff; Early Talks, Penguin Compass, PB, 1974 Views from the Real World, G.I. Gurdjieff; Early Talks, E.P. Dutton, PB, 1975 The Harmonious Circle, James Webb, G.P. Putnam, HC DJ, 1980, FIRST EDITION Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff; Revised and Enlarged from the memoirs of Olga de Hartmann, Thomas de Hartmann, Harper & Roe, PB, 1983 19. Meetings with Remarkable Men, A Film by Peter Brooks; Corinth Films UK, VHS Tape, (1979) 1989 John G. Bennett's Talks on Beelzebub's Tales; A.G.E. Blake, Weiser Books, PB, 1988 The Gurdjieff Work; Kathleen Riordan Speeth, Library of Spiritual Classics, St. Martins, PB, 1989 The Gurdjieff Society, London; April, Annual Report, Pamphlet, 1989-1990 Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am', All and Everything, G.I. Gurdjieff, Penguin Arkana, PB, 1999 Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas; John Shirley, Penguin PB, 2000 Meetings with Remarkable Men; G.I. Gurdjieff, Penguin Compass, PB, 2002 Philosophy and Art in Gurdjieff's 'Beelzebub': A Modern Sufi Odyssey; Anna T. Challenger, Rodopi, PB, 2002 Guide and Index to Gurdjieff's 'All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson'; Toronto Society for Traditional Studies, Triangle Press, HC & DJ, 2003 Introduction to The Gurdjieff Work, Jacob Needleman, Sandpoint Press, Miniature PB, 2009 The Reality of Being: The Fourth Wave of Gurdjieff; Jeanne de Salzmann, Shambhala Press, Hardcover in DJ, 2010Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff was an Armenian-Greek mystic, a teacher of sacred dances, and a spiritual teacher. He is most notable for introducing what some refer to as "The Work," connoting work on oneself according to Gurdjieff's principles and instructions, or as some others refer to it, the Fourth Way. Supporters regard him as a charismatic master, a powerful esoteric and human transformation teacher who brought new knowledge into Western culture; a psychology and cosmology that enable insights beyond those provided by established science. Gurdjieff influenced the life and writing of many of his pupils and the ... read more

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