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Synopsis

An experiment in autobiography.

Item Description

8vo. 8 x 6.5 inches. 219 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped dust wrapper with edge wear, including neatly repaired tear at foot of rear wrapper and chips at head and tail of spine, which is lightly sunned. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Autobiographical reflections by Kenneth Macfarlane Walker (1882-1966), Scottish surgeon, philosopher and author, a follower of the mystic and spiritual teacher, George Gurdjieff (c.1867-1941). Some of the material used in the book had appeared in The Intruder ten years previously.