Peters, Fritz. — BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY in nice dust jacket, with one small spot of darkening on the front panel. I met and talked to Georges Gurdjieff for the first time in 1924, on a Saturday afternoon in June, at the Chateau du Prieure in Fontainbleau-Avon, France. Although the reasons for my being there were not very clear in my mind - I was eleven at the time - my memory of that meeting is still brilliantly clear. -- Fritz Peters. His account of the years 1924-1927, when he and his brother were legally adopted by a Gurdjieff disciple, Jane Heap, and sent to live at the Prieure. Witty and profound. 176 pages. Octavo.