Description
The signed limited edition of Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, one of 100 copies signed by the author.
Octavo, [4], 201pp, [1]. Publisher’s burlap boards, title printed on white label affixed to the spine and front cover. Green topstain. This copy appears unread, a fine example. Printed by Peter Beilenson in Mount Vernon, New York. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on the front flap, bright illustrations. The same dust jacket ($3.00) was used for the first trade edition and the limited edition. Dust jacket price matches the first trade edition. Housed in the publisher’s matching slipcase, one seam along bottom edge showing wear, limited edition statement on the panel label.
From a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page.
An exceptional copy.
(Dell’Isola, A9.b.)
Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton was first published by New Directions in 1949, shortly after the success of The Seven Storey Mountain, and became one of Merton’s central works on contemplative prayer and the interior life. The original 1949 text was later revised and substantially enlarged by Merton as New Seeds of Contemplation, published in the early 1960s and thereafter becoming the better-known version of the work.
