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Record Number
2195
Reference Type
Book
Year
1948
Title
The Seven Story Mountain Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt Brace and Company Series Volume: Early "[b.7.1948]" black cloth edition.
Number of Pages
429 pages Short Title: The Seven Story Mountain
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this edition has the first state dust jacket (with caption "The author is second from the left" beside the second photo on the back of the dust jacket).
Label
N7
Record Number
2186
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Faith and Violence (excerpt)
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
November Short Title: Faith and Violence (excerpt)
Pages
Page 1
Record Number
2187
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Ishi - A Meditation
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 33
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent. This issue contains an article by Dorothy Day.
Label
NP
Date
March-April Short Title: Ishi - A Meditation
Pages
Pages 5-6
Record Number
2179
Reference Type
Book
Year
1948
Title
Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover edition Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
NO
Record Number
2181
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
The Shoshoneans (a Review Article)
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 33
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
June Short Title: The Shoshoneans (a Review Article)
Pages
Pages 5-6
Record Number
2182
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Auschwitz: A Family Camp
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 33
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
November Short Title: Auschwitz: A Family Camp
Pages
Pages 4, 5, 8
Record Number
2183
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Sacred City
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
January Short Title: The Sacred City
Pages
Pages 4-6
Record Number
2184
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
An Ideal Society
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Volume 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent. This article is not elsewhere published or mentioned in other bibliographic references.
Label
NPU
Pages
Page 4 Short Title: An Ideal Society
Record Number
2185
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Wild Places
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent. This is the first publication of the article in a periodical. This issue includes an article by Dorothy Day.
Label
NO
Date
June Short Title: The Wild Places
Pages
Pages 4, 6
Record Number
2177
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Landscape, Prophet and Wild Dog Place Published: Syracuse
Publisher
Black Bird Press
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - signed Short Title: Landscape, Prophet and Wild Dog
Notes
Cloth in slipcase; the portfolio has six etchings which were drawn and hand-printed on d'Arches paper by Don Cortese, and the type is Garamond which was hand-set and printed at the Black Bird Press. The etching and text paper size is 16 1/2 x 12" with deckle edge. The medium grey linen cloth slipcase is slightly larger with the title stamped in gold. The Charbonel etching inks used in the etchings and text sheets are in black, red and grey. Limited edition. Signed by Don Cortese.
Label
NUYLA
Record Number
2178
Reference Type
Book
Year
1957
Title
The Camaldolese Way Place Published: Italy
Publisher
Morcelliana
Number of Pages
28 pages
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Camaldolese Way
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. 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.
Record Number
2542
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1962
Title
The Root of War
Journal
Pax Bulletin
Label
NPM
Date
January Short Title: The Root of War
Pages
Pages 5-6
Abstract
Soft cover. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Record Number
2543
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1963
Title
Cold War Letters / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at The Abbey of Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Original mimeograph in textured yellow card covers and bound in plastic comb binding. Although Merton was forbidden from publishing on the subject of war and peace, he did use the Abbey of Gethsemanis' mimeograph machine to write his views and circulate them among friends and acquaintances. This is one such mimeograph - less than 100 (probably around 85) were printed and distributed. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NUM
Pages
Title page reads, "Cold War Letters (Strictly confidential. Not for publication.)" and is followed by 180 pages of 111 typed letters. Note that the six page preface and page one is missing from this mimeograph. However, a photocopy of page one accompanies this item. It was sent to Jeanette Cantrell by Merton typist Patrick Hart and includes a hand written card by him to Cantrell including the missing page.
Type of Work
Original second distribution of mimeograph (111 letters). Short Title: Cold War Letters / mimeograph
Record Number
2540
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Way of Chuang Tzu / offprint
Journal
The Mountain Path
Notes
Soft cover; offprint of this excerpt from Way of Chuang Tzu - unique in that it has not been previously noted by bibliographers and is the earliest addition to a periodical of this text. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPM
Date
April Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu / offprint
Pages
Pages 102-105
Record Number
2541
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1966
Title
The Zen Koan / offprint
Journal
The Lugano Review
Volume
Volume 1/5-6
Label
NPM
Pages
Pages 126-139 Short Title: The Zen Koan / offprint
Abstract
Soft cover; offprint of this review of The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau; first publication of this essay in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Record Number
2174
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
The Tears of the Blind Lions - signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
32
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Tears of the Blind Lions - signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton as "F. M. Louis".
Label
NUS
Record Number
2175
Reference Type
Book
Year
1966
Title
Redeeming the Time - signed Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns and Oates
Number of Pages
187
Edition
First soft cover edition - signed by Merton Short Title: Redeeming the Time - signed
Notes
Soft cover; this item was inscribed by Merton to Bruno Schlesinger who was a professor at St. Mary's College in Indiana. Merton and Schlesinger correspondences are published in Hidden Ground of Love. This item was purchased from Schlesinger's daughter, Mary (whose hand-written note accompanies the book).
Label
NUS
Record Number
2176
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - #27/50. Short Title: What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; Opus XV; #27 of 50 numbered copies printed in red and black on Japanese Hosho paper in in Hammer's American Uncial. The elaborate dust jacket has text printed in Latin with a two- color, 9-line, initial letter 'E' cut in brass by Victor Hammer. "Victor Hammer Artist and Printer" p. 147. Prospectus laid in.
Label
NUSDL
Record Number
2161
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Dougherty, Jude P.
Year
1966
Title
The Council and Monasticism
Publisher
B. Herder Book Company
Notes
Soft cover; this article has not been published as part of any Merton book, and also includes articles by John Ford, Alfred Horrigan, Aiden Kavanagh, Jeremiah Smith and Carroll Stuhl-Mueller.
Pages
Pages 44-60. Short Title: The Council and Monasticism
Book Title
The Impact of Vatican II Place Published: Saint Louis - London
Record Number
2162
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Roger Moody, et al.
Year
1965
Title
The Larger Picture
Publisher
Campaigners Against Factory Farming
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Larger Picture
Notes
Soft cover pamphlet; this statement by Merton has just recently been discovered as part of the Manifesto - as discussed in an article by Monica Weiss, SSJ, in the Merton Seasonal, vol. 36, #1, Spring, 2011. The statement is in response to a letter by one of the editors of the pamphlet, Roger Moody, requesting a contributing statement by Merton. Merton sends the requested statement and also offers to write "something longer" in his support of the issue (which he did indeed draft but likely never got around to sending). This significant statement demonstrates Merton's sensitivity to issues of ecology and social justice when few others were doing so. Supporters noted include Jacques Maritain, Bertrand Russell and Albert Schweitzer. Only one known copy is located in the WorldCat database of Libraries.
Pages
Merton's contribution appears on page 27 (31 total pages).
Book Title
Unlived Life / A Manifesto Against Factory Farming Place Published: Bristol
Record Number
2163
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / A Secular Journal Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns and Oates
Number of Pages
132
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / A Secular Journal
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
NI
Record Number
2164
Reference Type
Book
Year
2003
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: New York
Publisher
Fall River Press
Number of Pages
264
Edition
Reprint Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
N
Record Number
2165
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
Disputed Questions Place Published: New York
Publisher
Noonday Press
Number of Pages
283
Edition
Reprint. First Noonday edition. Short Title: Disputed Questions
Notes
Cloth and Dust Jacket.
Label
N
Record Number
2166
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
Der Berg Der Sieben Stufen / German language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Einsiedeln Zurich Koln
Publisher
Benziger Verlag
Number of Pages
443
Edition
First German language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain Short Title: Der Berg Der Sieben Stufen / German language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Cloth.
Label
N
Record Number
2167
Reference Type
Book
Year
1954
Title
The Last of the Fathers Place Published: London
Publisher
Catholic Book Club
Number of Pages
123
Edition
Catholic Book Club edition Short Title: The Last of the Fathers
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
N
Record Number
2168
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1947-1948
Title
Contemplation in a Rocking Chair (1948); Death of a Trappist (1947)
Journal
Integrity
Volume
2
Notes
Bound volume 2 of "Integrity" containing all issues from October 1947 - September 1948. Of interest the "Contemplation in a Rocking Chair" article seems not to have been published elsewhere - an early and rare peice of Merton writing.
Label
NPU
Date
Nov 1947; August 1948 Short Title: Contemplation in a Rocking Chair (1948); Death of a Trappist (1947)
Pages
Pages 3-8 (#2); Pages 15-23 (#11).
Record Number
2169
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Great Men of Former Times / Poem - signed
Journal
Genesis Grasp
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover; inscribed and signed by the editor Richard Meyers.
Label
NPY
Pages
Pages 16-17 Short Title: The Great Men of Former Times / Poem - signed
Record Number
2539
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal / offprint
Journal
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Volume
Volume 5
Notes
Soft cover; offprint and first appearance of this item in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPMU
Pages
Pages 268-283 Short Title: Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal / offprint
Record Number
2538
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
The Death of God, 1: The Death of God and the End of History / offprint
Journal
Theoria to Theory
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover; offprint and the first appearance of this item in print. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPM
Date
October Short Title: The Death of God, 1: The Death of God and the End of History / offprint
Pages
Pages 3-16
Record Number
2139
Reference Type
Book
Year
1963
Title
Life and Holiness Place Published: New York
Publisher
Herder and Herder
Number of Pages
162
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Life and Holiness
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
N
Record Number
2140
Reference Type
Book
Year
1989
Title
Posiew Kontemplacji Nikt Nie Jest Samotna Wyspa / Polish language composite of Seeds of Contemplation and No Man is an Island Place Published: Krakow
Publisher
Znak
Number of Pages
364
Edition
First Polish soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
NF
Translator
Morstin-Gorska, Maria Short Title: Posiew Kontemplacji Nikt Nie Jest Samotna Wyspa / Polish language composite of Seeds of Contemplation and No Man is an Island
Record Number
2141
Reference Type
Book
Year
1988
Title
Wspinaczka Ku Prawdzie (Ascent to Truth); Pokoj Monastyczny (Monastic Peace); O Kontemplacji Dla Wszystkich (What is Contemplation?); Sztuka Sakralna A Zycie Duchowe (Sacred Art and the Spiritual Life); Pierwotny Ideal Karmelu (The Primitive Carmelite Ideal) / Polish language composite edition Place Published: Krakow
Publisher
Karmelitow Bosych
Number of Pages
359
Edition
Second Polish soft cover composite edition. Short Title: Wspinaczka Ku Prawdzie (Ascent to Truth); Pokoj Monastyczny (Monastic Peace); O Kontemplacji Dla Wszystkich (What is Contemplation?); Sztuka Sakralna A Zycie Duchowe (Sacred Art and the Spiritual Li
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
NF
Record Number
2130
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
140
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
NI
Record Number
2131
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Disputed Questions Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
297
Edition
First UK hard cover edition. Short Title: Disputed Questions
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; cloth has variant brown cover.
Label
N
Record Number
2132
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
297
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket, inscribed and signed by Merton, "+ for Mother Mary Clark, rscj, With cordial good wishes in xt our Lord. Fr Louis Merton". RSCJ stands for the "Religious of the Sacred Heart" which is derived from the French "Religieuse du Sacré Coeur de Jesus". This is perhaps Mary T. Clark, a leading Thomist and also a renowned scholar on Augustine.
Label
NSU
Record Number
2134
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
What is Contemplation?
Publisher
Burns, Oates and Washbourne Ltd
Number of Pages
31
Edition
First British soft cover edition. Short Title: What is Contemplation?
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
N
Series Title
The Paternoster Series #7 Place Published: London
Record Number
2537
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Day of a Stranger / offprint
Journal
Hudson Review
Volume
Volume 20
Notes
Soft cover; offprint of this article and its frist appearance in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPM
Date
Summer Short Title: Day of a Stranger / offprint
Pages
Pages 211-218
Record Number
2536
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
War and Vision / review of Two Leggings: The making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov (1967) - offprint
Journal
Theoria to Theory
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover; this is an offprint of this article. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPUM
Date
July Short Title: War and Vision / review of Two Leggings: The making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov (1967) - offprint
Pages
336-342
Record Number
2535
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper
Journal
The Kentucky Review
Volume
Volume 2, #1
Notes
Soft cover; first appearance of this article in published print form (perceded by mimeograph, also in Merton-artifacts collection).
Label
NP
Date
February Short Title: Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper
Pages
Pages 26-30
Record Number
2534
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1934
Title
No, We Won't Print it
Journal
Esquire / The Magazine for Men
Notes
Soft cover; an early appearance of Merton in print. This is a letter by Merton to the editor of Esquire magazine.
Label
PNU
Pages
Page 14 Short Title: No, We Won't Print it
Record Number
2531
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1953
Title
The Sign of Jonas / Sampler of excerpts from the forthcoming book Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Edition
Promotional material for book to be released in the fall of 1953. Short Title: The Sign of Jonas / Sampler of excerpts from the forthcoming book
Notes
Softcover pamphlet. Promotional pamphlet for Merton's journal, "The Sign of Jonas." Includes an 8 page exceprt from the book, and a 2 page intro by Merton.
Label
N
Pages
Includes an 8 page exceprt from the book, and a 2 page intro by Merton. 11 pages total.
Record Number
2518
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1949
Title
The Contemplative Life / Its Meaning and Necessity
Journal
Dublin Review
Notes
Soft cover. This item is the original 10 page article separated from the volume. This is Merton's first original periodical publication outside the United States.
Label
NPU
Date
Winter Short Title: The Contemplative Life / Its Meaning and Necessity
Pages
Pages 26-35
Record Number
2521
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition - The Silent LIfe Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns and Oates
Number of Pages
134
Edition
First hard cover "Collected" edition. Short Title: Collected Edition - The Silent LIfe
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
NI
Record Number
2522
Reference Type
Book
Year
1944
Title
Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; inscribed and signed by Merton's friend Robert Lax to Daniel Hall.
Label
NYUO
Record Number
2523
Reference Type
Book
Year
1964
Title
Come to the Mountain Place Published: Snowmass, Colorado
Publisher
St. Benedict's Monastery
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Come to the Mountain
Notes
Soft cover; this item was the precurser to the Cistern Life pamphlet series.
Label
N
Record Number
2512
Reference Type
Book Section
Year
1939
Title
Graduate School (poems) - signed
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Graduate School (poems) - signed
Notes
Blue cloth, no jacket as issued. Contains the first published work of Thomas Merton, written when he was a graduate student at Columbia. This book is signed on page v by Mark Van Doren, one of the selectors, (renowned English professor and poet, and professor/friend of Merton); also signed and inscribed by Sara Van Alstyne Allen (who went on to publish professionally in The New Yorker and Harper's) in 1964 on pages 5 and 9, where her poetry appears.
Label
NUYO1
Pages
60-67
Book Title
Columbia Poetry Place Published: New York
Record Number
2507
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio (Victor Hammer)
Number of Pages
Two folded, unbound 11x17 sheets - 8 pages in all.
Edition
First limited edition printing - #5/100 Short Title: The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Variant. Two folded sheets (11x17); unbound but laid into a cloth, custom fitted, latched case. Issued as Broadside II. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black and blue. "Victor knew many binders, and it could be that he gave them an unbound copy to case/bind as they wanted. Since its such a low number, I would suspect that might be the case." (PH)
Label
NUDL
Record Number
2506
Reference Type
Book
Year
1963 (May)
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Toronto
Publisher
Signet (Published in Canada by The New American Library of Canada Limited)
Number of Pages
416 pages
Edition
10th Signet soft cover printing - stated "first" signet printing. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Soft cover; this is the 10th soft cover printing by virtue of the 9th being a stated 9th from March 1962, and the 11th being a stated 11th from July 1963.
Label
N7
Record Number
2504
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1966
Title
How it is - Apologies to an Unbeliever
Journal
Harper's Magazine
Volume
Volume 233
Notes
Soft cover; first publication of this article in a periodical.
Label
NP
Date
November Short Title: How it is - Apologies to an Unbeliever
Pages
Pages 36-39.
Record Number
2503
Reference Type
Book Section
Year
1967
Title
The Solitary Life
Publisher
Spiral Press
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - 1/250 Short Title: The Solitary Life
Notes
Paper-covered boards, paper cover label. Burial service of Victor Hammer with Merton poem included and read by Raymond McLain. Tipped-in plate and notice, printed in Hammer's American Uncial. One of 250 copies printed at the Spiral Press on handmade paper.
Label
NL
Pages
(18) pages
Book Title
Requiem for Victor Hammer Place Published: New York