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Record Number
906
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1963
Title
The Legend of Tucker Caliban / Mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on rectos only. This is the first (private) printing of this review of Kelley's "A Different Drummer", first publicly printed in Jubilee ll:5 the following September under the title "The Negro Revolt". This is one of several mimeographs contained in this collection from the estate of John Howard Griffin.
Label
M
Date
July, 1963
Pages
Ten pages (including title page) stapled in upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: The Legend of Tucker Caliban / Mimeograph
Record Number
907
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1967
Title
The Street is for Celebration / Mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on rectos only. This is the first (private) printing of this essay, denoted on the upper leaf as having been "Written for Mgr Fox - Spanish Community Action Book Project". Formal publication did not occur until the summer of 1969, in The Mediator. This is one of several mimeographs contained in this collection from the estate of John Howard Griffin.
Label
M
Date
October, 1967
Pages
Eight pages (including title page) stapled in upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: The Street is for Celebration / Mimeograph
Record Number
2463
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1966
Title
Conversatio Morum / offprint
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Notes
Soft cover; offprint from Cistercian Studies Quarterly (originally published in the 1966 volume) and maintaining original pagination.
Label
MNT
Pages
Pages 130-144. Short Title: Conversatio Morum / offprint
Record Number
2462
Reference Type
Book
Year
1957
Title
Vita Nel Silenzio - Italian translation of The Silent Life Place Published: Bresia, Italy
Publisher
Morcelliana
Number of Pages
82 pages
Edition
First soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover with dust jacket; this text was used as the basis for the rare English language booklet titled The Camaldolese Way (1957). It appears that The Silent Life (1957) was translated into French as Vita Nel Silenzio and then from the French portions were used and adapted to create the English text for The Camoldolese Way.
Label
NF
Translator
Cimnaghi, M. R. Short Title: Vita Nel Silenzio - Italian translation of The Silent Life
Record Number
897
Reference Type
Book
Year
1965
Title
Disputed Questions Place Published: Toronto
Publisher
Mentor-Omega Books
Number of Pages
222
Edition
First Mentor-Omega soft cover edition. Short Title: Disputed Questions
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
728
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
146
Edition
First hard cover edition (subsequent printing). Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Oversized red cloth and dust jacket; with Latin cross on front of boards but no errata inside book or on dust jacket.
Record Number
730
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1952
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
198
Edition
First reprinted, undersized, British hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
U
Record Number
732
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1990
Title
The O Antiphons and Saint Mary Magdalen
Journal
Liturgy: Cistercians of the Strict Observance
Volume
24
Notes
Soft cover; journal edited by Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO.
Label
P
Pages
41-57 Short Title: The O Antiphons and Saint Mary Magdalen
Record Number
733
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1990
Title
Notes by Thomas Merton on Two June Solemnities: The Nativity of St. John Baptist and Saints Peter and Paul
Journal
Liturgy: Cistercians of the Strict Observance
Volume
24
Notes
Soft cover; journal edited by Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO.
Label
P
Pages
45-56 Short Title: Notes by Thomas Merton on Two June Solemnities: The Nativity of St. John Baptist and Saints Peter and Paul
Record Number
718
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
Christmas Sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny: An Essay by Thomas Merton Place Published: Trappist
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
62
Edition
First hard cover edition.
Notes
Cloth
Translator
Lima, Sister Rose of Short Title: Christmas Sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny: An Essay by Thomas Merton
Record Number
719
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
On Peace Place Published: New York
Publisher
The McCall Publishing, Co
Number of Pages
269
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: On Peace
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
720
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
The New Man Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Number of Pages
148
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The New Man
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
721
Reference Type
Book
Year
1977
Title
The Monastic Journey Place Published: Kansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc.
Number of Pages
185
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Monastic Journey
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
714
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Prayer for peace / mimeograph Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
Privately printed at the Abbey of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
Single mimeographed page printed on recto and verso.
Edition
First mimeographed edition. Short Title: Prayer for peace / mimeograph
Notes
First mimeographed edition initially published in the U.S. Congressional Record 108, April 18, 1962, Part 5. A typed note at the end adds: "This prayer, written by T. Merton, was read in the House of Representatives by Congressman Frank Kowalski (D-Connecticut) on April 12, 1962 (Wednesday in Holy Week)"; this item was thought to have come from the Victor Hammer estate.
Label
M
Record Number
712
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Title
If You Seek a Heavenly Light Place Published: San Jose
Publisher
Desert Rose Press
Number of Pages
8 (including covers)
Edition
Reprint cloth edition initially published in "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton"; limited edition - 1/75. Short Title: If You Seek a Heavenly Light
Notes
Accordion folding book in black, gold and silver marbled boards with title printed in red; set in Goudy Thirty Typeface and printed in black; offset lithographic illustration in black and orange of Stonehenge by Virginia Mudd; limited edition - 1/75.
Label
UL
Record Number
713
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Ernst, Morris
Year
1967
Title
On Remembering Monsieur Delmas
Publisher
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: On Remembering Monsieur Delmas
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; contains chapter written by Merton.
Pages
45-54
Book Title
The Teacher Place Published: Englewood Cliffs
Record Number
2455
Reference Type
Book
Year
2015
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: London
Publisher
SPCK Classics
Number of Pages
423 pages.
Edition
Centenary edition Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Soft cover; issued to commemorate one hundred years since Merton's birth.
Label
N7
Record Number
2454
Reference Type
Book
Year
1957
Title
The Camaldolese Way / inscribed card laid in Place Published: Italy
Publisher
Morcelliana
Number of Pages
28 pages.
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Camaldolese Way / inscribed card laid in
Notes
Soft cover; this item has not been noted by bibliographers and is not listed as part of any library collection (WoldCat). From "Vita nel silencio" (Living in silence). Similar to the English text "Silent Life" (1957) but with textual variations and 12 new images. In addition this item has laid in it a personalized address card inscribed and signed by Dom Anselmo Giabbani, Prior General of the Camaldolese in Italy. Dom Anselmo Giabbani served as Camaldolese Prior General from 1951-1963. He died in 2004 at the age of 96. Between 1952 and 1956, Thomas Merton corresponded with Anselmo Giabbani asking for Giabbani's help in applying to Vatican authorities for an authorized transfer to an Italian monastery.
Label
NUY
Record Number
707
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Cistercian Book Service
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
709
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
2001
Title
Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Holy Spirit Abbey Place Published: Conyers, Georgia
Publisher
Our Lady of Holy Spirit Abbey
Number of Pages
52
Edition
Fist Holy Spirit Abbey soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Holy Spirit Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
704
Reference Type
Book
Year
1972
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
297
Edition
Hard cover Book Club edition. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
706
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / Saint Joseph's Abbey Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Saint Joseph's Abbey
Edition
First Saint Joseph's Abbey soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Saint Joseph's Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
694
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
The Living Bread Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Number of Pages
157
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Living Bread
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
697
Reference Type
Book
Year
1965
Title
Seasons of Celebration Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
248
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Seasons of Celebration
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
699
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1978
Title
Five Unpublished Letters from Ad Reinhardt to Thomas Merton and Two in Return
Notes
Magazine.
Label
P
Date
December Short Title: Five Unpublished Letters from Ad Reinhardt to Thomas Merton and Two in Return
Pages
23-27
Magazine
Artforum
Record Number
700
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
The Sign of Jonas Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Number of Pages
362
Edition
First hard cover edition (not stated). Short Title: The Sign of Jonas
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
701
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
Waters of Silence Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
299
Edition
First British hard cover edition. Short Title: Waters of Silence
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
703
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1969
Title
The Solitary Life Collection Title: Cistercian Studies Library/Archive: Cistercian Studies. Published in collaboration with Collectanea Cisterciensia.
Notes
Soft cover; an offprint from Cistercian Studies. This item is a transcript of a tape-recording made for the Savannah Carmel in September, 1967.
Label
TM
Pages
Original pagination has been maintained (pg. 213-217).
Type of Work
First separate issue, an offprint from Cistercian Studies. Short Title: The Solitary Life
Record Number
689
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1953
Title
Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard / Signed Place Published: France (and Brazil)
Publisher
Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium
Number of Pages
38
Edition
First soft cover edition - Signed by Merton. Short Title: Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard / Signed
Notes
Soft cover; not published in the US as a book but translated as "Martha, Mary and Lazarus" in France; this is an offprint of the total article. It is inscribed and signed, "To Father Barnabas Mary with kind regards - in Jesus xt - Fr. Louis". The booklet names Louis Merton as author. The booklet was not printed on acid free paper, therefore, the signed intro page and blue cover has been deacidified and sealed in plastic.
Label
S
Record Number
691
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1976
Title
Ishi Means Man Place Published: Greensboro, North Carolina
Publisher
Unicorn Press
Number of Pages
71
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Ishi Means Man
Notes
Cloth without dust wrapper (as issued); Unicorn Keepsake Series Volume 8. Brick and beige boards with original Rita Cobrin woodblock tipped-in as frontispiece.
Label
U
Record Number
685
Reference Type
Book
Year
1958
Title
Thoughts in Solitude Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Number of Pages
124
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thoughts in Solitude
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
679
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
The Living Bread Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Number of Pages
157
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Living Bread
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
680
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
The Climate of Monastic Prayer
Publisher
Cahill and Company Limited, Parkgate Printing Works
Number of Pages
154
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Climate of Monastic Prayer
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
T
Series Title
Cistercian Studies Series - number one Place Published: Dublin, Ireland
Record Number
681
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Number of Pages
270
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2451
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Dirge for the City of Miami
Journal
The South Florida Poetry Review
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover; this periodical was dedicated to the memory Thomas Merton whose poem was received for this issue just two months before his passing. It is also the first appearance of this poem in print and seems to have been missed by Merton biblographers.
Label
NP
Date
Winter Short Title: Dirge for the City of Miami
Pages
page 3
Record Number
678
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1949
Title
Flight Into Egypt Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher
Wesley Webster
Number of Pages
5
Edition
First separate sheet music soft cover edition. Short Title: Flight Into Egypt
Notes
Soft cover with pictorial wrappers; words by Thomas Merton, music by Emmet Pendleton.
Label
U3
Record Number
675
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
The New Man Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Number of Pages
148
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The New Man
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
676
Reference Type
Book
Year
1954
Title
The Last of the Fathers Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Number of Pages
123
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Last of the Fathers
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
673
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
The Sign of Jonas Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Number of Pages
362
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Sign of Jonas
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
670
Reference Type
Book
Year
1947
Title
Cistercian Contemplatives Place Published: New York
Publisher
Marbridge Printing Company, Inc.
Number of Pages
62
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Contemplatives
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
671
Reference Type
Book
Year
1988
Title
A Vow of Conversation Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
210
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: A Vow of Conversation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
672
Reference Type
Book
Year
1965
Title
The Way of Chuang Tzu Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
159
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
669
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
Contemplative Prayer Place Published: New York
Publisher
Herder and Herder
Number of Pages
144
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Contemplative Prayer
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
664
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey Place Published: Lafayette, Oregon
Publisher
Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey
Edition
First Guadalupe Abbey soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
665
Reference Type
Book
Year
1947
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Direction
Number of Pages
111
Edition
2nd hard cover printing. Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
O
Record Number
666
Reference Type
Book
Year
1989
Title
Thomas Merton in Alaska: The Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
162
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton in Alaska: The Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
659
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Title
Life and Work Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher
Credence Cassettes Short Title: Life and Work
Notes
CD; the voice of Thomas Merton recorded live at Gethsemani.
Label
V
Record Number
660
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Title
Life and God's Love Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher
Credence Cassettes Short Title: Life and God's Love
Notes
CD; the voice of Thomas Merton recorded live at Gethsemani.
Label
V
Record Number
656
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Title
Life and Prophesy Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher
Credence Cassettes Short Title: Life and Prophesy
Notes
CD; the voice of Thomas Merton recorded live at Gethsemani.
Label
V
Record Number
657
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Title
Life and Celebration Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher
Credence Cassettes Short Title: Life and Celebration
Notes
CD; the voice of Thomas Merton recorded live at Gethsemani.
Label
V