The Pope Speaks by Charles Rankin
1940. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with white lettering. B&W frontispiece. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) and crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.