Action
Approaches, 1959.
8vo, stiff softcover red typographic wrappers, 317pp. First issue. Wrappers mildly creased at edges, toned to text block, faint wear to spine edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A radical intergral nationalist booklet penned by the founder of Cite Catholique, former member of the monarchist Action Francaise movement and personal secretary of its founder Charles Maurras. “Action” is a handbook designed as a practical implementation of the Social Teachings of the Catholic Church in alignment with the papal encyclicals that call for a re-establishment the Social Kingship of Christ. The work provides a structured approach to social involvement and response to anti-Catholic movements. Published by an uncredited English translation by Hamish Fraser, the noted founder of the journal Approaches, convert to Catholicism from atheistic Communism. Epigraph, rear wrapper prints rousing extracts of Demosthenes’ exhortation to the Athenians. A very good copy, scarce.
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Price: $75.00
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