Papal from Star of the Sea Books

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Books' front corners bumped, gentle creasing to top of pack panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE FIRST MODERN POPE" First edition of this first biography, by an American Marianist brother, of the first modern Pope, with a frontispiece photographic portrait. Gioacchino… Ler mais sobre este item

South Bend and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some creasing to top of front panel. Near-fine. First edition in English of Hans Maier's study of the political upheavals of the 19th century, from the University of Notre Dame Press… Ler mais sobre este item

New York : The Bruce Publishing Company/London: Collier-Macmillan, Limited, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Early price-sticker to back panel of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "FOR THE FIRST TIME A LIVING POPE IS GIVEN THE SCRUTINY THAT IS NORMALLY RESERVED FOR THOSE IN HIGH PUBLIC OFFICES" First edition of this collection of "diversified reactions… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967. First American edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. A near-fine copy with only faint toning to spine and upper edge of front panel of the dust jacket. "PIUS XI WAS TOO EXALTED TO BE TOUCHED BY VANITY; AND WITH HIM IT WAS THE POPE, RATHER THAN HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL,… Ler mais sobre este item