The Light and the Gate. by Johnson, Raynor C - 1964

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), frontispiece portrait, minor edgewear jacket (top spine frayed, flap price-clipped), bookshop sticker, non-author written dedication. 318 pp. Raynor Johnson, author of The Imprisoned Splendour, here annotates for essays. Consists of four reprinted essays: What constitutes the good life? (George William Russell, or A.E.) - The bridge across death (Ambrose Pratt) - The power of sound (The Venerable Sumangalo, or Robert S. Clifton) - What is the future of religion? (Leslie Dixon Weatherhead). Plus extended commentary by Raynor Johnson (from Queens College, University of Melbourne) before each essay. (ISBN not printed in book, but presumably assigned later. Bookshop sticker: Robertson & Mullens.).