The Tower of Babel

Thomas Merton, Gerhard Marcks (Illustrator)

New Directions, New York, 1958

First Edition. 4to, [31] pp; vellum-backed boards. One of 250 numbered copies (227), printed on a handpress by Richard von Sichowsky, Hamburg, on handmade Zanders paper, with four woodcut illustrations and graphic woodcut title page, signed by both Merton and Marcks. Held in publisher's card slipcase.  Small stain on slip case, else fine. Another example of this gorgeous limited edition is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Signed by Thomas Merton (1915–1989) , the Catholic writer and mystic known for his bestselling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain.