Waters Siloe, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Support Small Business by buying this book! First edition, seventh printing signed by Thomas Merton - a particularly rare item from this monk who signed books only rarely. He uses the signature 'Thomas Merton' (plausibly indicating a 1949 date to his signature, before he was ordained with his monastic name, Fr. Louis). From the private collection of Fr. Ray Ryland, a friend of Merton's. Book in Very Good condition. Dust jacket handsome and crisp, protected in a non-archival vinyl which has preserved the colors and form of the dust jacket but is not removable. Book bound in turquoise cloth, with some sunning at edges. Gold lettering and gold embossed cover of a cross with Chi-Rho and two birds. Signature on title page ' + Thomas Merton.' Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight and square. Merton's account of monastic life, both general and personal, including 16 pages of photographs, with information about the history of the Trappists, monastic sign language, daily routine, profiles of fellow monks, and spiritual reflections. Considered the companion book to the Seven Storey Mountain. A beautiful piece of 20th century Catholic literary history, from the hand of one of its greatest writers. Signed By Author.

First edition of Merton's companion volume to his famed The Seven Storey Mountain. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A companion volume to Merton's famous autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe gives a complete and comprehensive picture of the monk's daily existence, from the time he rose at two o'clock in the morning to sing Matins until he retired at seven in the evening. In addition, it provides an informal account of the meaning and purpose of Trappist life, told in terms of those personalities who forged and tempered the spirit of the Order through the ages.