Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1949. First edition (stated first printing). 101pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in matte peach wraps printed in green on front cover and spine. Very good or better, with light wear to corners and hinges, dust-dulling to spine, light toning to textblock edges. Signed and inscribed by Hall on the half-title: “To Paul Grell with deepest regards Manly P. Hall.”
Association copy of the first of five volumes in the “Western Esoteric Tradition” subdivision of Hall’s ambitious Adepts series. 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.
