Yoga For Today
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1959. 8vo, 172pp. Photos, illustrations. Signed with a generic inscription by Spring on the first blank page. Bound in red morocco with gilt lettering and design on spine and orange spine label. Samuel Weiser ticket at front, front and inner flaps of jacket bound in as single leaf at rear. Some scuffing to endpapers else clean internally.
An important mid-century Yoga manual written by a woman, and student of Blanche DeVries to whom the book is dedicated, Clara Spring (1899-1989). This is one of a few titles from the decade written by women which sold well and helped advance the emerging Eastern philosophy-adopting counterculture. Other pioneers of the era included Indra Devi, Elisabeth Haich, and Swami Sivananda Radha. Spring's inscription reads:
Signed copies are scarce.
Price: $200.00