Rider Waite book

Can you tell me what is the best book to get for the Rider Waite tarot deck please.
Blessing Teresa x

Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning, and either The Complete Book or Tarot, or The Tarot Revealed by Eden Gray.

Bunning is a good place to start. Also:

Tarot History Symbolism and Divination by Robert Place
http://www.amazon.com/Tarot-History...d_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216660400&sr=8-1

Secret Language of Tarot by Wald and Ruth Ann Amberstone
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Langua...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216660505&sr=1-1

Mystical Origins of Tarot by Paul Huson
http://www.amazon.com/Mystical-Orig...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216660680&sr=1-1

I don't like Joan Bunning's book at all. It uses a keyword system but gives you absolutely no clue as to how she got those keywords (apart from the pictures on the cards).
I think you're best learning HOW to read rather than learning how to parrot off some keywords that someone has given you.

The book I usually recommend to beginners is 'The Complete Tarot Reader' by Teresa Michelsen: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Ta...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216663078&sr=8-1
You won't find any lists of card meanings in here but you will learn how to find your own meanings; it's an excellent book.

Edited to add: I like all the books recommended by northsea too - any of them would be good for a beginner.

Also, you should not ignore The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by AE Waite.

I believe K. Frank Jensen's "The Story of the Waite-Smith Tarot" (ATS, 2006) is a must.

Where can you buy the Jensen book?

northsea said:

Where can you buy the Jensen book?

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Here ya go

http://association.tarotstudies.org/WaiteSmithBook.html

northsea said:

Where can you buy the Jensen book?

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You can get it from Tarot Garden too.

For the pip- and court cards:

Isabel Radow Kliegman: Tarot and the Tree of Life.