[SIGNED] KING OF KINGS

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s beige paper-covered boards, backed in ochre cloth; 480 pages; the dustjacket has a bit of sunning but is quite legible; it is not price-clipped.~~This copy is personally inscripted by Fr. Malachi Martin:”To Becky | Esteem & affection | Thanks for everything | 5/4/81 ? +Malachi”.~~Malachi Martin had a significant presence in the Roman Catholic Church as an exorcist His career as a Jesuit priest was complicated to say the least. Some think he was the basis for the exorcist in novel by that name -- the author, William Peter Blatty, said this book was a fantasy and that Martin was just trying cash in. [see McManus Darragh, “The Strange Case of Father Malachi Martin” in the Independent, January 12, 2017.”~. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.