[Rarebooks] FS: Thomas Merton ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB Inscribed to Poet Margaret Randall

[Charles Agvent]

MERTON, Thomas. ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB. New York: New Directions, (1961). 
First Edition. The trade edition of 8000 copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by 
the author on the front endpaper to poet Margaret Randall and her 
husband, Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón, though they are not mentioned by 
name: "Hommage de amistad cordial/a mis amigos, escritores y poetas/del 
Corno Emplumado/Thomas Merton." The fragile spine of the book has been 
replaced with a newer black cloth spine; light wear to boards. Very Good.

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 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. (#019766) $1,750

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