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New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. , 1967. First edition. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with mild creasing to the foot of the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "MY SUBJECT IS WAR -- AND THE IMMORALITY OF WAR" First book edition of this collection of articles by Dr. Gordon Zahn, a continuation… Read more about this item

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1970. First edition . Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth boards mottled, foxing to rear hinge, scattered faint underlining in pencil, modest soiling to front panel, small chip and faint creasing to back panel. Very good. First edition of Father Drinan's analysis of the Church's teaching on war in the context of… Read more about this item

London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, spine lettered in silver, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, small chip, slight toning to spine of price-clipped bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NONVIOLENCE HAS DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS LORD, WHOM GANDHI… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. Year of publication in ink at base of title page, slight toning to spine and creasing to inner flap rear panel of dust jacket. A near-fine book in a very good dust jacket. "THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND POLITICAL… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Hollis & Carter, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, touch of foxing to top edge, spine of dust jacket toned, pen slash through price on front flap. A near-fine copy. "THE RIGHTS OF MAN ON EARTH ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF GOD IN HEAVEN" (LORD ACTON) First edition… Read more about this 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… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original half cloth, original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL PLAY OF OUR TIME" First edition in English of the full, uncut text of Hochhuth's controversial play. Dedicated to the memory of Father Maximilian Kolbe and Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg. Hochhuth's play was long and not particularly well-regarded as a drama.… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Thus. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to edges of bright dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE NEW NATIONALISM" First edition thus of Herbert Croly's pivotal work on the American experiment, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. First printed in 1909, Croly's history… Read more about this item

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First edition. Octavo, original half black cloth over paper boards, original dust jacket. Ink remainder slash across bottom edge of text block, else fine. "A STATE EXISTS FOR ITS CITIZENS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND." First edition in English of one section of Wyszynski's massive, unpublished Pro Memoria, composed while the Polish… Read more about this item

Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1985. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "A PILGRIMAGE OF CONSCIENCE" First edition of Drinan's collected "Writings and Addresses on Peace and Justice" with a Preface by President Jimmy Carter. Father Robert Drinan, S. J. was elected to the House of Representatives in 1970 on an anti-war platform. Drinan served on the… Read more about this 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,… Read more about this item

New Rochelle and New York: Arlington House, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near-fine blue boards are slightly dusty, bright and unfaded dust jacket with minor creasing to spine ends, two small chips to base of front panel, faint stains to both panels. Very good indeed. 'IT IS ALWAYS USEFUL, WHEN DOING WHAT ONE WANTS TO DO, TO… Read more about this item