All and Everything - Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the First Series
by Gurdjieff, G. [Georgi Ivanovitch / George / Georges]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. The binding has a split to the gutter between the half title leaf and title leaf, with the spine mull visible. Front hinge weak. Minor adhesive tape stains to margins of endpapers. Abrasion to dust-jacket spine. Price clipped from front flap of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First edition in English language, translated from Armenian and Russian. The US edition is the first English language edition, preceding the UK edition. This 'First Series' of "All and Everything" is the work that is also known as "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson". The front panel of the dust-jacket has the subtitle: "'An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man', or, Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson". ix, [1], 1238 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 166 x 107mm. "Among other convictions formed in my common presence during my responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one such also - an indubitable conviction - that always and everywhere on the earth, among people of every degree of development of understanding and of every form of manifestation of the factors which engender in their individuality all kinds of ideals, there is acquired the tendency, when beginning anything new, unfailingly to pronounce aloud or, if not aloud, at least mentally, that definite utterance understandable to every even quite illiterate person, which in different epochs has been formulated variously and in our day is formulated in the following words: 'In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the Name of the Holy Ghost. Amen." - the opening paragraph. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19721
- Title
- All and Everything - Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the First Series
- Author
- Gurdjieff, G. [Georgi Ivanovitch / George / Georges]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1950)
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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