8vo, red buckram cloth, gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, 362pp. Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to panels, small chips and loss to edges. Mild spotting to front board, ex-libris bookplate to flyleaf. Contents clean, binding firm. The second autobiographical book by Merton, a follow up and companion to The Seven Storey Mountain. A collection of journal entries dating from his solemn profession in 1946 through to 1952. A nice copy in mylar.