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Title: HELLAS: A Spectacle with Music and Dances in Four Acts.
Description: Cape Town: The Stourton Press, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Bookplate of D'Agapeyeff (may be Alexander, he of the undecipherable cipher); Very Good+ cloth volume in dust jacket with light stain along lower edge of rear panel. Very scarce like most of Fairfax Hall's press works which centered around the Fourth Way. He adopted an unusual style for this book. A ruled page in traditional proportion, being 1, 2, 3, 4. This play, cast in backdrop of the Greek Mysteries, offers vivid descriptions of certain dance movements as well as focusing on the eternal recurrence of gods and men, Ouspensky's prime theme. 138 pages. Octavo.

Keywords: Collin Gurdjieff Greek Mysteries ancient religion drama Fourth Way symbolism

Price: US$ 290.00 Seller: J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB
- Book number: 12885