Pius Pope, Signed (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by Margherita Marchione on fly page. Approx. 9" x 6". Bumps/chips to edges and corners. Rub wear, dust markings and light scratches to covers. Top right corner is bent with a crease. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by the author, and his wife. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this interesting account of the eventful last year of the life of Pope Pius XI and his efforts to cast the moral authority of the church in opposition to the Fascism of Hitler and Mussolini -- an effort opposed by conservative elements high in the Vatican hierarchy. An American Jesuit, John LaFarge, was engaged in the drafting of the Pope's statements and becomes a key source for this account. Inscribed by Peter Eisner to a previous owner (a motivational radio show personality and radio station owner in Washington D.C. on a front endpaper. 292 pages, illustrated. Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, [2], 292 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Peter Eisner is an award-winning author and journalist, formerly with the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press. Peter Eisner tells a timely history about how religious leaders acted when faced with worldly decisions. On June 25nd 1938, Pope Pius XI enlisted American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft a declaration condemning Nazism and anti-Semitism in the form of a papal encyclical? one of the highest public statements employed by the Holy See? in an attempt to rally world leaders to stop Hitler, Mussolini, and the Nazi onslaught before the start of an impending European war. Pope Pius XI s campaign to stop Hitler was halted by his own death in 1939, at which time Cardinal Pacelli was ordained Pope Pius XII." Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on t-p First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper. [10], 209pp, [3], gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight. Other than the Author's inscription, there are NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The pages are age toned, the dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, and shows one small taped edge tear. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover, illus. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ As New. NO defects. NO notes or ANY markings. Not clipped ($35) ; Inscribed "for Linda" and signed, at title page, 2 May '18.; 6.3 X 1.5 X 9.54 inches; 474 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Signed presentation copy from the author to Bishop D.J. Feeney, seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Portland (ME) on flyleaf. A very nice copy. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Acceptable dust jacket. Inscribed by editor Gabel on half title page. (catholicism, catholic, popes).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, mylar protected. Signed by Author on title page. Event calendar laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Excellent condition. Dj is protected by a mylar cover. Signed and inscribed by the author, David Kertzer on the title page. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 549 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine red and black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$32.00." Minor rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Light scuffing to dust jacket. Fore edges of textblock deckled. Interior pages clean. Inscribed by Kertzer on half title page. Shelved in Italian History. 1376500. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Miguel Pagliere (Author Photograph) (illustrator). x, [2], 292 pages. Illustrations. DJ has price removed. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Father George Stuart with Best Wishes Peter Eisner May 2, 2013. Includes Prologue, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Excerpts from LaFarge's Encyclical, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes chapters on Nostalgia Confronts Reality; A "Crooked Cross''; The Imposition of the Reich; The Pope's Battle Plan; The Flying Cardinal; A Democratic Response; In the Heat of the Summer; the Pop's Discontent; Shame and Despair; A New Year and an End to Appeasement; Will There Be Time?; Change Overnight; and The New Regime. Peter Eisner, a veteran foreign correspondent, has been deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post, foreign editor and senior foreign correspondent of Newsday, and bureau chief and correspondent for AP in the US and Latin America. Eisner is the former managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog organization. He is the author or coauthor of five previous books, including The Pope's Last Crusade, The Italian Letter, and The Freedom Line,winner of the Christopher Award. Derived from a Kirkus review: The story of the race to compose a last top-secret encyclical against Nazi racism before the death of Pope Pius XI. Notwithstanding the spate of current works on the tragic shortcomings of Pius XII during World War II, journalist and producer Eisner refocuses the spotlight in this relevant study on his predecessor, who did speak out against anti-Semitism and the threat of Nazism-though he was silenced by an untimely death in 1939. Pius XI, an activist pope since 1922 under whom the Vatican ultimately became an independent city-state achieving political and financial stability, had been deeply moved by an American Jesuit priest's 1937 book Interracial Justice, about his work among poor Maryland blacks, and summoned the author, Rev. John LaFarge, to the Vatican in 1938. In his 80s, Pius XI had a serious heart condition, yet the growing Nazi menace demanded action: The year before, Pius had issued an important encyclical, With Deep Anxiety, slamming the Nazis for racist policies and oppression of Catholics; now, aware he was on death's door, Pius was determined to go further in a new message he urged LaFarge to write swiftly and in secret. Eisner traces LaFarge's work in Paris over the summer of 1938 and his missteps in confiding in the pope's Superior General Ledochowski as a go-between, a shadowy figure who allowed the document to languish while the pope grew more ill. Ledochowski, like the pope's secretary of state Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pius XII), believed that the pope was imbalanced and that communism (and Jews) was the menace, not Nazism. Eisner closes with excerpts from LaFarge's powerful encyclical and the chilling suggestion of what might have been the outcome had it been published. An exciting reminder of how Vatican machinations continue to haunt history. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, mylar protected. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Signed by Author on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. SIGNED BY EDITOR, WARMLY INSCRIBED TO BISHOP JOHN ROACH on the front free endpaper of Volume 1. This two-volume set in slipcase is in excellent condition. Pages are clean and have no marks other than the inscription. Cover corners are square, binding tight. There is a bindery flaw on the back cover of volume 2, where it looks like the buckram cloth was adhered over a scrap of paper that somehow slipped between the boards and cloth, or was otherwise applied unevenly. Slip case is very good, with a surface scuff and small indentation on one side. Bishop Roach was Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis from 1975 to 1995. He delivered the benediction at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Near fine (cover nice; contents clean & tight); short tear & small crease d/j. Tall 8vo., red boards in dust jacket; 209 pages First Edition, first prjnting. Scarce signed presentation from Dalin on the front endpaper: ?For Brett McCow, With best wishes, David Dalin.? Dalin is an American rabbi and historian. The Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard, commissioned Dalin to write an omnibus review article on the books relating to Pope Pius XII, who was the center of controversy in the wake of John Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope. Published in February 2001, Dalin's essay concluded that Pius XII was a Righteous Gentile who saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the Holocaust and that the Pope 'more than most to shelter Jews. Uncommon to find a signed copy of this title!. Signed.

Condition: Fine. [xiii] pp127 A collection of 29 letters with an introduction and explanatory notes by M C Taylor, Personal Representative of the United States to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Fine in red cloth, buff spine with gilt lettering, protected by a cellophane wrapper within a green card slip case. This high quality publication was a gift edition inscribed by the author "To Miss Laura Delano with compliments Myron C Taylor April 12th 1947." This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Fine Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

How many receive a telegram with a special blessing from His Holy Father the Pope on the occasion of their golden wedding? Mr and Mrs Patrick Dempsay did. This original pencil written Post Office Telegram originating from Cita Del Vatican is stamped on receipt at Spean Bridge, a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig in the Highlands of Scotland and dated 5 Jan '35. The holy father (Pope Pius XI) 'sends apostolic benediction pledge abriding grace' and the telegram is signed off by Cardinal Pacelli (Eugenio Pacelli), Vatican Secretary of State who was later elected Pope himself on March 2, 1939, taking the name Pius XII. The telegraph is in wonderfully fresh condition having been mounted in a surround and was most probably framed by its recipients who we have so far been unable to find any further biographical details in order to help us place them. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

Condition: Fair. SIGNED! New York, The Catholic Editing Co., 1908. 1st edition. Volume 1.Folio. 463pp. Illus. De Luxe Edition, #301. Signed by President of the Catholic Editing Company on copyright page. Fair book. Elaborately-tooled cover with bas-relief medallion of Pope Pius X. Spine cover missing. Boards detached; edgeworn, corners frayed. Frontis. missing. (Catholic Church, United States) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Rare hand-illuminated apostolic benediction signed by Pope Pius XI with a circular portrait of him. The blessing in elaborate script reads, "Most Holy Father, Margaret, Katherine, Regina, John, Leo and Charles Lougrhan, humbly prostrate at the feet of Your Holiness beg one special blessing." Signed by the pope at the conclusion, "Pope PP. XI." In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 24 inches by 19 inches. Uncommon signed by Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius XI was head of the Catholic Church from February 6, 1922 until his death in 1939. The first sovereign of Vatican City from its establishment as an independent state, Pope Pius XI issued numerous encyclicals warning of the dangers of capitalistic greed, communism, and anti-clericalism. Upon his death in 1939, he was buried in the Papal Grotto of Saint Peter's Basilica; during the excavation to create his tomb, ancient burial grounds were uncovered which revealed bones now venerated as the bones of St. Peter.

Apostolic blessing signed, in Latin, untranslated, one page, 11,75 x 18,75 inch - with an affixed `G. Felici, Roma` photograph of the seated pontiff (7,25 x 9 inch), (Rome/Vatikan), n.d., apostolic blessing for the marriage of Virgilio Roviglioni and Amalia Serafini, signed at the bottom in black ink "Pius pp.XI.", with scattered stains, mounting remnants along the edges, and signs of wear to the photograph - in fine condition.

framed. Condition: near fine. Signed framed circular photo of Pope Pius XI in gilt frame. Born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, Italian: 31 May 1857 - 2013 10 February 1939) was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 until his death in February 1939. He was also the first sovereign of the Vatican City State upon its creation on 11 February 1929. Stamped by G Felici photographer, who was active at least as early as 1905.