Elected silence: The autobiography of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton: - 1954

Clonmore & Reynolds, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. 2nd Impression. 381 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly foxed & tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels have moderate edge wear with chips, tears, and creasing. Visible loss to top of front panel and spine.

Hollis & Carter, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1949. First Edition. 381 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Pale rubbed marking overall. White marking to top edges of boards. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Reinforced with tape to insides. Dark rubbing to surfaces. Mild tanning to spine and edges.

Hollis & Carter, 1950. ~Owner's signature. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Original black cloth, gilt on spine faded. No dustwrapper. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 5th impr. Hardcover. Good+. vi,381pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Hollis & Carter, 1952. ~Tape traces to endpages. Green pictorial dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly edgeworn but unfaded and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Browning to endpapers. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 6th impress. Hardback. Good+/Very Good+. vi, 381pp. With dustwrapper. Owner's signature. Binding sound, text unmarked.

(London): Hollis and Carter, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First English edition of the original American edition entitled *Seven Story Mountain*. Small bookstore label on front pastedown, pages modestly age-toned, edges lightly rubbed with spine slightly cocked, very good in a good to very good age-toned dust jacket with small chips and tears along the extremities.

London: Hollis and Carter, 1949. Good/fair. Hardcover : pp. [i-v], vi, [vii-viii], [1-2], 3-381, [382-384] : Dark navy cloth covered boards : Gilt lettering to spine : Olive green illustrated dust jacket with lettering in black and red : Red dye to top edge : Previous booksellers stamp on back free endpaper : Price clipped. Head and tail of spine and corners of boards pushed : All edges foxed : Endpapers fox marked : Dust jacket worn around edges and torn at head and tail of spine. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author of more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism, and writings on peace, justice, and ecumenism.

Dublin : Clonmore & Reynolds, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vi, 381p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Merton, Thomas (1915-1968).

Hollis & Carter, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings, with a few rips or minor marks on the cover & pages.

[London], Hollis and Carter, [1949].. 1st British edition. Cloth, dust jacket gently worn and lightly soiled with a small heat mark along the fore-edge of the front cover. Overall, a very good copy of Merton's highly acclaimed autobiography.