The Cross and the Flag - Our Church and Country
Book Description: New York: The Catholic Historical League of America - The Georgetown Library, 1900, New York, 1900. Book Condition: Fair to Good --. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 1 only; published in 1900. Massive book (over 1,000 pages); bound in maroon material blocked with a picture of a flag and cross; green marbled page edges. Many color and b&w plates throughout, in fair to good condition. Ends of spine rubbed/chipped; cover shows general wear and is starting to come loose from the spine, but interior is vg: all pages clean and tight. Has an interesting list of ?guests? to a birthday party written on the ffep. ?A Gift from my dear aunt Eliza Kieser on my birthday, Oct. 22, 1915, Mr. Maggie Cawley?. Private edition published only for members of the Catholic Historical League of America. Full title as appears on title page: "The Cross and the Flag - Our Church and Country: Historic Deeds for the Old Faith and the New Land - From the Discovery of America to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Comprising a Full, True, and Strictly Impartial History of the United States. By the great historian of America, John Gilmary Shea, LL.D., with The Story of the Achievements of the Church and Her Sons in American History from Christopher Columbus to Archbishop Martinelli by Hon. John L. Macdonald, and an Introductory Chapter on The Claims of the Church in the Making of the Republic by His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, D.D., Volume I."
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