The Arch Lectures; Claude Bragdon; Creative Age Press, New York; 1942; First Edition; Signed & Dated by Author; 246pp; 8.25 × 5.25 × 1″. BOOKSELLER SINCE 1968. 10% OFF FIRST ORDER.

Very Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. (See photos) Jacket bright in fresh mylar; price unclipped with a neat ink line through the printed $2.00; open tears at front corners and light edge wear. Purple cloth boards clean with strong gilt. Endpapers show mild age toning. Half‑title page corner clipped (not affecting text). Warm full‑page inscription from Claude Bragdon dated May 5, 1942, with a small rose sketch; “Autographed Copy” noted on half‑title. Text clean and unmarked; binding sound.

Bragdon’s eighteen New York discourses range across architecture, education, yoga, children’s games, Emerson’s journals, and the spiritual psychology of modern life; he was also instrumental in introducing Ouspensky and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way teachings to American readers.

Keywords: Claude Bragdon; Gurdjieff; Ouspensky; Fourth Way; Creative Age Press; signed first edition.