The Silent Life

by Thomas Merton

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. First edition, first printing. Signed by Thomas Merton and inscribed to former owners on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in gilt. Near Fine with cloth lightly sunned at top and bottom edges, front inner hinge slightly tender, pages toned and several pages of text with light ink annotations. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light

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