MERTON THOMAS Prometheus A Meditation

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INSCRIBED TO THE VAN DORENS MERTON, THOMAS. Prometheus / A Meditation. Printed in black and brown on Hosho paper. Soft grey sketch of Prometheus on title-page (likely by Merton). Thin 8vo, boards covered with plum Moriki paper with printed paper spine label by Boxwood Binders; no dust jacket as issued. Lexington: Privately printed at the Margaret King Library Press at the Univ. of Kentucky, 1958

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first limited edition of 150 unnumbered copies. inscribed to mark and dorothy van doren and signed "from Tom 1958." Merton was a student of Van Doren at Columbia University and they remained lifelong friends. The Margaret I. King Library Press imprint was used only twice before being shortened to The King Library Press."