MERTON, Thomas [Translator].
What Ought I to Do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
Lexington, Kentucky: Stamperia del Santuccio , 1959.
$3,500.00
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One of Only Fifty Copies of What Ought I to Do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers; Signed by Thomas Merton
First edition of Thomas Merton’s translation of the sayings of the Desert Fathers, exquisitely printed by the artist and printer Victor Hammer, one of only 50 copies. Octavo, original blue-gray boards, printed in red and black on Japanese hosho paper, and the pictorial dust jacket with Latin text and a two-color initial letter cut in brass by Hammer. Signed by Thomas Merton on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good condition.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and one of the most influential spiritual writers of the twentieth century, author of the best-selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain. What Ought I to Do? gathers his translations of the sayings of the Desert Fathers, the early Christian hermits of fourth-century Egypt whose terse wisdom shaped the monastic tradition, a collection Merton later revised and expanded as The Wisdom of the Desert. This edition was printed by Victor Hammer at his Stamperia del Santuccio in Lexington, Kentucky, the fruit of the close friendship between the monk and the artist-printer.
What Ought I to Do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
$3,500.00
In Stock