(New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1932).

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY ALEXANDER. The scientific and biological breakthroughs inherent in the work of F. Matthias Alexander are legendary. Today, across the globe there are many teachers and students of the discipline known as the Alexander technique. The famous educator, psychologist and author John Dewey, as constant pupil of the author wrote that "the technique of Mr. Alexander gives to the educator a standard of psycho-physical health--in which what we call morality is included. It supplies also the "means whereby" this standard may be progressively and endlessly achieved, becoming a conscious possession of the one educated. It provides therefore the conditions for the central direction of all special educational processes. It bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities....It contains in my judgment the promise and potentiality of the new direction that is needed in all education. Item #30456

First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original light blue cloth, the upper cover and spine panel lettered in gilt. xix, 143 pp. A good copy, the binding tight and the text-block in good order, some mellowing down of the spine panel, a bit of wear to the tips, and overall evidence of use or age.