Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1949. First edition (stated first printing). 102pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in matte peach wraps printed in taupe on front cover and spine. Very good or better, with light wear to corners and hinges, dust-dulling to spine and top of front cover, light toning to textblock edges. Signed and inscribed by Hall on the half-title: “Very best wishes to Paul Grell from Manly P. Hall.”
Association copy of the third 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.
