Description

First American edition. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in the original orange dustjacket printed in blue. xi, 303. A very nice and clean copy, the spine panel of the jacket mellowed.

Edizione: for twenty years, gurdjieff traveled in the remote regions of central asia and the middle east searching for an ancient, but universal knowledge. the “remarkable men” of the title were some of his companions. reappearing in russia in 1913, he gathered around him a group of people who turned their attention towards the development of ‘consciousness’. <br> this work, written in russian, was published by gurdjieff’s students. it represents what gurdjieff called the second series of his writings. first published in france in 1960, followed by the simultaneous publication in england and the united states, meetings offers the reader a new way of living one’s life.