New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1964). First Edition. hardcover. Faint discoloration to endpapers, light wear to binding. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with light wear. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to poet Margaret Randall and her husband, Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón: "For Meg & Sergio/with all friendship/peace & joy/Tom Merton."

Margaret Randall moved from the United States to Mexico in the 1960s and married the Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón, with whom she edited the journal EL CORNO EMPLUMADO. She involuntarily gave up her American citizenship and eventually lived in Cuba, Nicaragua, and spent time in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. Sergio Mondragón is considered the most notable representative of the Beat movement in Mexico.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 019765
Title: SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
Author: MERTON, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Faint discoloration to endpapers, light wear to binding. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with light wear
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: (1964)
Keywords: Signed, Association Copy, Religion, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Thomas Merton, Spirituality, Catholicism, Inscribed
Bookseller catalogs: Association Copy;

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