The Seven Storey Mountain
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 429pp. Third printing of the first edition, with no first edition statement to copyright page, second state binding, 'author on the left' caption to rear panel of dust jacket. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) with heavy rubbing and creasing to flap edges, chipping to spine crown, light rubbing to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. The immensely popular spiritual autobiography and conversion narrative of the world-renowned Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky. With approbations by Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Fulton Sheen, et al. to front flap. A handsome example of a later trade edition, becoming scarcer. A nice copy in mylar. Near Fine / Very Good.
Price: $85.00