Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1953. First edition (stated first printing). 112pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in matte amber wraps printed in red orange front cover and spine. Very good or better, with light wear to corners and hinges, dust-dulling to spine, toning to textblock edges. Signed and inscribed by Hall on the half-title: “To Paul [Grell] with warm regards & appreciation Manly.”
Association copy of the second of five volumes in the “Eastern Esoteric Tradition” subdivision of the ambitious Adepts series by Canadian occultist and Philosophical Research Society-founder Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990). Hall’s inscribee, Paul Grell (1906-1997), was an American printmaker, bookbinder, and astrologer, who served as executive secretary of the American Federation of Astrologers from 1959 to 1970.
