Condition Continued:There's also a thin scuff at the top edge of the spine. On the rear cover there are four scuffs (see fourth photo). There's also a small tear off the top edge with a tiny loss just above it. The front flap looks very good. The edge on the rear flap that is adjacent to the edge of the rear cover also has a thin bit of scuffing. It's less conspicuous because the color is white. There are three pinprick-sized holes along this edge. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos of scanned.

Published for The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation by Hartmore House, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1973. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by Mordecai M. Kaplan. With a New Introduction by Jacob Neusner.

Inside the book when I purchased it was a signed note from the author to the previous owner. I have provided a photograph. It reads: 'To David White with all good wishes, Mordecai M. Kaplan'. 

From the jacket: 'At the beginning of his career, America's leading philosopher of Judaism wrote this remarkable little book which was issued originally in a limited edition. Here Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan sets forth many of the basic principles and concerns which were later developed in his monumental Judaism As A Civilization. While seeking to reformulate 'The Meaning of Torah' in modern terms, he pleads for the revitalization of Jewish home life, the intensification of Jewish education, and the strengthening of the bonds between the Jews of the world and the Jews in the Land of Israel.

As a professor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and founder of its Teacher's Institute, as founder of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism and of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, as originator of the 'Jewish Center' and of the 'Bat Mitzvah' ceremony, Rabbi Kaplan has shaped the course of American Jewish history.'