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London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. 400 g; 320 pages, in the original burgundy coloured boards, with original colour illustrated dust jacket I "M. G.", which is slightly faded on the spine section, and has a couple of short tears with associated chipping to the top edge of the jacket. Price clipping to the front fold over, with original bookseller's sticker at bottom right-hand corner of front pastedown. When a young and naive French semimarist arrives in Rome to become a member of the Vatican household of a worldly prints of the church, his quest for the Keys of St Peter has begun. Before his apprenticeship is complete, he has encountered virtually the entire galaxy of Vatican Society, has become involved with the beautiful Paola, the Cardinal's cynical subordinate is and many other real and imaginary Vatican personages, and has experienced aspects of Vatican life, both public and secret, not usually shown to even the most distinguished visitor." -- front fold over blurb. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. novel -- Catholicism.