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Record Number
1645
Reference Type
Book
Year
1970
Title
Atarashii Hito / The New Man Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher
Veritas Chuppansha
Number of Pages
301 pages.
Edition
First hard cover edition - Japanese translation of The New Man.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the private collection of Yasuo Kikama, Japanese translator and biographer of various Merton works including Seeds of Contemplation, The New Man, Exile Ends in Glory and What is Contemplation.
Label
UF
Translator
Kikama, Yasua Short Title: Atarashii Hito / The New Man
Record Number
1646
Reference Type
Book
Year
1964
Title
Gendai no Seijin to wa? Life and Holiness Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher
Enderle
Number of Pages
177 pages.
Edition
First hard cover edition - Japanese translation.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; Japanese title translates as "How to Characterize a Modern Saint?" This item was received with deepest gratitude from the private collection of Yasuo Kikama, Japanese translator and biographer of various Merton works including Seeds of Contemplation, The New Man, Exile Ends in Glory and What is Contemplation.
Label
F
Translator
Kobayashi, Yoshio Short Title: Gendai no Seijin to wa? Life and Holiness
Record Number
1643
Reference Type
Book
Year
1966
Title
Nanae No Yama / Japanese language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher
Chuo Shuppansha
Number of Pages
556 pages.
Edition
First hard cover edition.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; includes special Preface by Merton in English as well as a copy of a letter sent by Merton to the translator regarding this work. This item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of Yasuo Kikama, Japanese translator and biographer of various Merton works including Seeds of Contemplation, The New Man, Exile Ends in Glory and What is Contemplation.
Label
7UF
Translator
Kudo, Tadashi Short Title: Nanae No Yama / Japanese language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain
Record Number
1642
Reference Type
Book
Year
1963
Title
La Muntanya Dels Set Cercles / Catalan edition of The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Barcelona
Publisher
Editorial Selecta
Number of Pages
600 pages
Edition
First Catalan soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover in dust jacket in open ended slip case.
Label
7UF
Translator
Colom, Guillem Short Title: La Muntanya Dels Set Cercles / Catalan edition of The Seven Storey Mountain
Number of Volumes
2 volumes - # 341-342.
Record Number
1637
Reference Type
Book
Year
1955
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Number of Pages
264
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this copy is stamped "Review Copy" on the title page.
Label
R
Record Number
1638
Reference Type
Book
Year
1964
Title
Seeds of Destruction Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
328
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Destruction
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item is a Review Copy with a letter from the editor of Saturday Review (Rochelle Girson) to Mr. Pratt asking for a review of this book (January 4).
Label
R
Record Number
1639
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
My Argument with the Gestapo Place Published: New York
Publisher
Doubleday & Co., Inc.
Number of Pages
259
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: My Argument with the Gestapo
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item is a Review Copy with a letter laid in by Doubleday & Company, Inc with publication date July 3, 1969.
Label
R
Record Number
1640
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
The Geography of Lograire Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
153
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Geography of Lograire
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item is a Review Copy with review slip from New Directions laid in.
Label
OR
Record Number
1631
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
First, Wesley
Year
1969
Title
Learning to Live
Publisher
Doubleday & Company
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Learning to Live
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this is the first appearance of this article in print.
Pages
Pages 187-199.
Book Title
University on the Heights Place Published: Garden City, NY
Record Number
1634
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1964
Title
Picture of a Negro Child with a White Doll
Journal
The New York Review of Books
Volume
Volume III
Notes
Soft cover; folded newsprint with this Merton poem being its first appearance in a journal. Note that it contains a variant title from its other publications ("Picture of a Black Child with a White Doll"). This item also contains assays by Robert Penn Warren on "The Race Crisis", W.D. Snodgrass on Roethke, Steven Marcus on V. S. Pritchett, and William Styron on MacArthur.
Label
P
Date
October 8 Short Title: Picture of a Negro Child with a White Doll
Pages
Page 10
Record Number
1635
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Trappist Life Place Published: Trappist
Publisher
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
61
Edition
First soft cover limited edition edition - 1/10000. Short Title: Trappist Life
Notes
Soft cover; text largely identical to the text of Cistercian Contemplatives (also by Merton, 1948); limited edition (1 of 10000). Colophon reads, "This Guide is designed and published by The Monks of Our Lady of Gethsemani Trappist, Kentucky A First Edition of 10000 copies was printed in August 1953 by Slater & Gilroy, Inc. Louisville, Kentucky".
Label
L
Record Number
1636
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
The Zen Revival Place Published: London
Publisher
The Buddhist Society
Number of Pages
20
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Zen Revival
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1630
Reference Type
Book
Year
2007
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
297
Edition
First "New Directions paperbook 1091" soft cover. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Soft cover; with introduction by Sue Monk Kidd.
Record Number
1627
Reference Type
Book
Year
1962
Title
The Waters of Siloe Place Published: Garden City, NY
Publisher
Image Books
Number of Pages
399
Edition
First Image soft cover edition - this item rebound as hard cover.. Short Title: The Waters of Siloe
Notes
Cloth (rebound from the original soft cover).
Record Number
1629
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1965
Title
Few Questions and Fewer Answers / Extracts from a Monastic Notebook
Volume
Volume 231
Notes
Soft cover; includes special supplement on the writer's life by John Le Carre and Stanley Kauffman; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
November Short Title: Few Questions and Fewer Answers / Extracts from a Monastic Notebook
Pages
Pages 79-81
Magazine
Harper's Magazine
Issue Number
#1386
Record Number
1625
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1948
Title
Dry Places
Journal
The Hudson Review
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
Autumn Short Title: Dry Places
Pages
Pages 340-341.
Record Number
1626
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: New York
Publisher
Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
Number of Pages
254
Edition
Fourth Dell soft cover edition - this item rebound in hard cover. Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Cloth (rebound from the original soft cover edition).
Record Number
1622
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1949
Title
The Waters of Siloe / promo
Notes
Soft cover; full page oversized add, with description and images, for the upcoming release of the new Merton book published by Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Label
U
Date
September 18, 1949 issue Short Title: The Waters of Siloe / promo
Pages
Page 17.
Magazine
The New York Times
Record Number
1623
Reference Type
Book
Year
1958
Title
Thoughts in Solitude Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
101
Edition
First UK hard cover edition. Short Title: Thoughts in Solitude
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; laid in is a sales slip of this item from Burns Oates Retail LTD.
Record Number
1624
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
Contemplative Prayer Place Published: New York
Publisher
Image Books
Number of Pages
116
Edition
First Image soft cover edition. Short Title: Contemplative Prayer
Notes
Soft cover; this item was signed and inscribed, "To Vi, With love, John Howard Griffin" - Merton's Official biographer.
Label
Y
Record Number
1577
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Cables to the Ace Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
60
Edition
First printing soft cover. Short Title: Cables to the Ace
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
1576
Reference Type
Book
Year
1970
Title
The Wisdom of the Desert Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
81
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Wisdom of the Desert
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1573
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1966
Title
Thomas Merton Today
Notes
Soft cover magazine; cover photo of Merton and article with numerous photos inside.
Label
J
Date
March Short Title: Thomas Merton Today
Pages
28-33
Magazine
Jubilee Magazine
Record Number
1570
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1978
Title
Rebirth & the New Man in Christianity
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly Review
Volume
13
Notes
Soft cover; this issue is a "Special Issue commemorating the 10th Anniversary of his death"; includes articles on Merton by Therese Lentfoehr, William Shannon, Jean Leclercq, etc.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 289-297. Short Title: Rebirth & the New Man in Christianity
Record Number
2495
Reference Type
Conference Proceedings
Title
Sacred Journeys and the Legacy of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
N
Pages
118 pages Short Title: Sacred Journeys and the Legacy of Thomas Merton
Conference_Location
Actors Theatre of Louisville - Louisville, Kentucky
Conference_Name
20th Annual - Festival of Faiths Conference
Year_of_Conference
2015 (May 12-15)
Record Number
1548
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Moffitt, John
Year
1970
Title
Marxism and Monastic Perspectives
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Marxism and Monastic Perspectives
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); publishers summary laid in. This item includes all the proceedings of the Bankok monastic conference (December 9-15, 1968) where Thomas Merton passed away on December 10, 1968 (including Merton's own talk). There is also a chapter on "The Death of Father Louis" (page 82-84) followed by prayers in his honor (page 85-87).
Pages
Pages 69-81.
Book Title
A New Charter for Monasticism Place Published: Notre Dame
Record Number
1449
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1961
Title
Wisdom and Emptiness: A Dialogue by D.T. Suzuki and Thomas Merton; Drake in the Southern Sea (transl. by Merton); The Jaguar Myth and Other Poems by Pablo Antonio Cuadra (transl. by Merton); Six Poems by Jorge Carrera Andrade (transl. by Merton)
Journal
New Directions in Prose and Poetry #17
Volume
17
Notes
Soft cover; first appearance of these articles and poems in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 65-123 Short Title: Wisdom and Emptiness: A Dialogue by D.T. Suzuki and Thomas Merton; Drake in the Southern Sea (transl. by Merton); The Jaguar Myth and Other Poems by Pablo Antonio Cuadra (transl. by Merton); Six Poems by Jorge Carrera Andrade (transl. by Merton)
Record Number
1455
Reference Type
Book
Year
1958
Title
Life at Gethsemani Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition
First soft cover edition Short Title: Life at Gethsemani
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1456
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
Praying the Psalms Place Published: Collegeville, Minnesota
Publisher
The Liturgical Press
Number of Pages
45
Edition
First Liturgical soft cover edition. Short Title: Praying the Psalms
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1457
Reference Type
Book
Year
1980
Title
Seeds of Destruction Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
328
Edition
4th soft cover printing. Short Title: Seeds of Destruction
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1460
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
Contemplative Prayer Place Published: New York
Publisher
Image Books
Number of Pages
116
Edition
First Image soft cover edition. Short Title: Contemplative Prayer
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1461
Reference Type
Book
Year
1988
Title
Raids on the Unspeakable Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
135
Edition
Reprint Burns and Oates soft cover edition. Short Title: Raids on the Unspeakable
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1462
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1949
Title
From the Legend of Saint Clement
Journal
The Month
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover; first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
January Short Title: From the Legend of Saint Clement
Pages
Pages 5-6
Record Number
1463
Reference Type
Book
Year
1981
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: London
Publisher
Sheldon Press
Number of Pages
429
Edition
Second impression soft cover edition. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
7
Record Number
1467
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1950
Title
Landscape, Prophet and Wild Dog
Journal
Arena / New Zealand and Overseas Writing
Volume
23
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 10-11 Short Title: Landscape, Prophet and Wild Dog
Record Number
1471
Reference Type
Book
Year
1992
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: London
Publisher
SPCK
Number of Pages
429
Edition
Second SPCK soft cover edition. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
7
Record Number
1476
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1978
Title
Rebirth & the New Man in Christianity
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly Review
Volume
13
Notes
Soft cover; this issue is a "Special Issue commemorating the 10th Anniversary of his death"; includes articles on Merton by Therese Lentfoehr, William Shannon, Jean Leclercq, etc.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 289-297 Short Title: Thomas Merton / Special Issue Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of his Death
Record Number
1477
Reference Type
Book
Year
1991
Title
Mystics and Zen Masters Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Noonday Press)
Number of Pages
303
Edition
6th soft cover printing. Short Title: Mystics and Zen Masters
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1478
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / Thoughts in Solitude Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
101
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / Thoughts in Solitude
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
IU
Record Number
1479
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
The Living Bread Place Published: Dublin
Publisher
Clonmore & Reynolds
Number of Pages
132
Edition
First Irish hard cover edition. Short Title: The Living Bread
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
K
Record Number
1480
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: Collegeville, Minnesota
Publisher
The Liturgical Press
Number of Pages
127
Edition
First Liturgical Press soft cover edition. Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1484
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1956
Title
Time and the Liturgy
Journal
Worship
Volume
31
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
P
Date
December Short Title: Time and the Liturgy
Pages
Pages 2-10.
Record Number
1485
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1965
Title
The Other Side of Despair
Volume
October-November
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 12-23. Short Title: The Other Side of Despair
Magazine
The Critic
Record Number
1487
Reference Type
Book
Year
1948
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
111
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
O
Record Number
899
Reference Type
Book
Year
1975
Title
Thoughts in Solitude Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
120
Edition
First Burns and Oates soft cover edition. Short Title: Thoughts in Solitude
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
900
Reference Type
Book Section
Year
1965
Title
Reflections on Some Recent Studies of St. Anselm
Publisher
Mount Savior Monastery
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Reflections on Some Recent Studies of St. Anselm
Notes
Soft cover.
Pages
221-236
Book Title
Monastic Studies / Feast of St. Benedict / #3 Place Published: Pine City
Record Number
901
Reference Type
Book
Year
1976
Title
The Ascent to Truth Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
242
Edition
First Burns and Oates soft cover edition. Short Title: The Ascent to Truth
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
902
Reference Type
Book
Year
1976
Title
The Ascent to Truth Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
242
Edition
Reprint UK soft cover edition. Short Title: The Ascent to Truth
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
903
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1983
Title
The Inner Experience / Offprint
Notes
Soft cover offprint; contains four chapters: 1. Notes on Contemplation 2. Society and the Inner Self 3. Christian Contemplation 4. Kinds of Contemplation. All with original pagination from CS.
Label
MUT
Pages
Original pagination maintained.
Type of Work
Soft cover offprint from Cistercian Studies Quarterly Review 18, 1983. Short Title: The Inner Experience / Offprint
Record Number
904
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1967
Title
Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper / Mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on rectos only with "Merton" hand written at the top right corner of the title page (unknown hand) and a few minor corrections throughout. This is the first (private) printing of this essay, first publicly printed in the February, 1968 issue of The Kentucky Review, and then in abbreviated form, in Peace News (30 August, 1968). This is one of several mimeographs contained in this collection from the estate of John Howard Griffin.
Label
M
Date
June, 1967
Pages
Six pages (including title page) stapled in upper left corner and folded for mailing.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper / Mimeograph