Title: SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT
Author: Swami Abhedananda
Publisher: Vedanta Society
City: New YorkYear: 1901 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 59Illustrated: No
Book Details + Condition: Scarce first hardcover edition of SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT, by Swami Abhedananda. Publisher's original olive green boards with gilt decorations, etc. on upper board. Book is in good condition: binding is tight and solid; old bookseller stamp on first blank page; pages darkened; small notes on 2-3 pages; boards a bit worn, with general rubbing and bumped corners (please see pictures). Measures 5" x 7". A scarce edition of a well known work delivered under the auspices of the Vedanta Society,
in Carnegie Lyceum, New York, 1900–1901 by Swami Abhedananda (1866-1939). Born Kaliprasad Chandra was a direct disciple of the 19th-century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of Ramakrishna Vedanta
Math. Swami Vivekananda sent him to the West to head the Vedanta Society of New
York in 1897, and spread the message of Vedanta, a theme on which he authored
several books through his life, and subsequently founded the Ramakrishna
Vedanta Math, in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Darjeeling.
