This Tusk Ivories edition is first published in the United States in 2004 by
The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.
Woodstock & New York
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Text, afterword, copyright © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1981
English translation © 2004 by Carol Cosman
Introduction reprinted by permission, from René Daumal: The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt, The State University of New York Press © 1999, State University of New York. All rights registered.
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