Translated by Olive Whicher and Johanna Wrigley Revised by J. Collis

Illustrations in the text by Walther Roggenkamp

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First English edition 1965
Reprinted 1971, 1976 and 1990
Revised second edition 1996
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Originally published in German by Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, in 1962

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ISBN 978 1 85584 362 2

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