The Autobiography of Thomas Merton : Elected Silence

With a foreword by Evelyn Waugh. 332pp. Mid-brown cloth boards (strong and clean, a little rounded on corners and spine ends). Previous owner’s name on endpapers, scattered faint foxing, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, price-clipped dust jacket (a little rubbed at edges, mildly sunned around spine, minor loss at spine base). Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Thomas Merton, from a multi-national and cosmopolitan background, showed great promise as a writer, but he became increasing critical of the conventional modernist outlook and took to the famous Trappist monastery in Kentucky in 1942, where he became an ordained priest. He became a symbolic figure, associated with the Cistercian revival in the States. Hard to find volume. A Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.