I: SIX NONLECTURES
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. The Trade Edition of these lectures containing much poetry INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the poet to author Fritz Peters: "A Merry Xmas/+/Happy New Year/to/Fritz Peters/from/Marion + EEC/4 Patchen Place 1953." Scarce to find genuine Cummings inscriptions. Mild staining to cloth. Very Good in a Fair dustwrapper with much loss at the top rear and spine tips. Item #016197
Fritz Peters at the age of 11 became the personal caretaker for the mystic philosopher Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. As an adult he wrote novels based on his own experiences with nervous breakdowns, alcoholism, a broken marriage, and homosexuality, as well as a memoir titled BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF.
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