Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

The Phoenix. An Illustrated Review Of Occultism and Philosophy [INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION]

Hall, Manly; J. Augustus Knapp (Contributing Artist)

Los Angeles: Hall Publishing Co., 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 351/3000. Elephant Folio. 127pp. Original blue half-cloth over light blue boards with orange Phoenix and lettering on cover; protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece portrait engraving with facsimile inscription by Manly Hall. Inscribed and hand-numbered "Best wishes of Manly P. Hall" on limitation page. Historiated and photographic headpieces, some engraved, five decorative, engraved endpieces. With fifteen engravings of artistic renderings by J. Augustus Knapp, executed by Brown & Caldwell.

Lavishly illustrated throughout with magnificent b/w facsimile photographs, sketches and paintings of a number of occult and esoteric feats and concepts such as "A Yogi Who Sits in the Air: Example of Levitation as practiced by the Wonder Works of India," rope climbers, Devil Dancers from Darjeeling, a Portrait of Madame H. P. Blavatsky, Chakra Diagrams, the Temple of the Seventy-Two Buddhas among others.

Spine re-backed to style. Contains illustrated Capricorn bookplate of previous owner Connie Riebe on interior front cover. Binding with minor wear along edges. Light stains and smudges to the covers. Interior including images, clean and vibrant throughout. Book block tight. Binding in very good-, interior in near fine. Protected in modern mylar. vg- to near fine. Item #53661

Manly Palmer Hall (1901 - 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Cabalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, which is widely regarded as his magnum opus when he was just 27 years old. He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, and the occult. Carl Jung, when writing Psychology and Alchemy, borrowed material from Hall's private collection. In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, dedicating it to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems. The PRS claims to be nonsectarian and entirely free from educational, political, or ecclesiastical control, and the Society's programs stress the need for the integration of philosophy, religion, and science into one system of instruction. The PRS Library, a public facility devoted to source materials in obscure fields, has many rare and scarce items now impossible to obtain elsewhere. In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33rd degree Mason, the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite. In his over 70-year career, Hall delivered approximately 8,000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles. (source: Public Domain).

Price: $2,750.00