Satan
Edited by Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie
First American edition of this important collection of over thirty historical, literary, philosophical, and psychological essays on the nature and role of Satan. Edited by Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie and in the unsettling first state jacket featuring C. Van Roemburg's painting "Satan Self-Bestialized."
New York: Ward and Sheen, 1952. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black; pp. xxv, [1], 506, photographic plates and illustrations throughout. A very good or better copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, minimal shelfwear to boards with couple small stains. Light bump to edge of text block, a couple creased pages due to a printing error, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, faint stain to flyleaf. Jacket shows light shelfwear and rubbing with a couple closed tears, reinforced with tape to verso. Protected in archival mylar.