8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 373 pp. White cloth over boards with gilt lettering on a red spine panel. Falconi kept a diary while he observed and commented on the Council. Using that diary plus newspaper accounts he wrote during that time, provides Falconi with the basis for this book. Library markings are a stamp on the front paste down end paper and an unused pocket on the back paste down end paper. Both book and jacket show only mild shelf wear to the head and tail edges, otherwise clean and tight. ; Ex-Library