The Holy Kabbalah: A Study of the Secret Tradition in Israel as unfolded by sons of the Doctrine for the Benefit and Consolation of the Elect dispersed through the Lands and Ages of the Greater Exile

New Hyde Park, New York: University Books, 1960. First University Books edition (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Good. Ex-libris James D. Wardle with his usual markings and labels, and ink stamps on the spine, front pastedown, and title page. Wardle amassed an impressive library and was often called the "Socrates of State Street" [Salt Lake City, Utah]. 636 pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with rust-colored patterned paper over boards. With moisture damage to the bottom half of the front board, and very light moisture staining and rippling to the bottom margins of the pages (pages actually appear quite clean). Dust jacket flaps pasted to verso of front free endpaper and on the recto of the front flyleaf. No dust jacket. Arthur Edward Waite's comprehensive study of the Kabbalah, first published in 1929.