God is My Adventure - A Book on Modern Mystics, Masters and Teachers

LANDAU, ROM - Romauld Landau (1899 - 1974)

Verlag: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936

Beschreibung

Hardcover. First American Edition, Illustrated. xii; Illustrations (10); 407; Index; Note of the Type. 8.75 x 5.75" w. Publisher's cream (?) colored cloth with stamped brown letters on front and spine, and Borzoi stamp on rear board. Brown top stain. Binding is tight with mild forward lean. Woven cloth is generally dust soiled. Spine head and tail are soft with splits and some fraying. Corners are lightly bumped and worn. Front pastedown and ffep have stamps and remnants of adhered California library material. Pages are age-toned with a bit of foxing and a few underlines. A quality Knopf publication with aesthetic flaws. (See images.) In his earlier career Landau wrote God is My Adventure (1935), a best-selling book in which he recounted his various contacts with leading figures and unusual persons of philosophical, religious, and mystical fame, such as Hermann Graf Keyserling, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Frank Buchman, Rudolf Steiner, G I Gurdjieff, P D Ouspensky, Meher Baba, and others. / Wikipedia. "This book is the confession of an adventure and the story of my friendships with those men whom a future generation may call the prophets of our time. The core of the adventure is a search for God. I leave it to the reader to decide whether such a search can be sacrilegious.'/Author's PREFACE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2402

Bibliografische Details

Titel: God is My Adventure - A Book on Modern ...

Verlag: New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Erscheinungsdatum: 1936

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition