In the original dust jacket. Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 2nd Edition. 492pp. First published in 1957; Second Edition published in 1962; this copy, stated: “Reprinted with minor corrections 1965”. Black and white glossy frontispiece. Appendix A: List of Popes, pp. 458-460; Appendix B [Notes to pages], pp. 461-477; Index, pp. 479-492.. White dustwrapper not price-clipped (“50s net”) with title lettering in black and red letters across upper half front cover, author name lettering in red across bottom front cover. only flaw is wear at top book corners (mylar very slightly cracked, with tiny tears to white dw: now resealed with Neutral pH Adhesive) and at lower right spine edge. Tight binding, sharp corners. Clean text. Please view photographs.