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Record Number 2530
Reference Type Book
Author Thomas Merton, (ed. by Robert E. Daggy)
Year 1988
Title Encounter Thomas Merton and D.T. Suzuki / signed Place Published: Monterey
Publisher Larkspur Press
Number of Pages 106
Edition Regular limited edition - #499/1000 Short Title: Encounter Thomas Merton and D.T. Suzuki / signed
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; inscribed and signed by Robert Daggy.
Label NLY
Record Number 2533
Reference Type Pamphlet
Author Thomas Merton, (featured in the month of December)
Year 1988
Title Blessed are the Peacemakers / 12 month calendar Place Published: Berkeley, CA
Publisher Goldern Turkey Press Short Title: Blessed are the Peacemakers / 12 month calendar
Notes Twelve month calendar; featuring Merton (December), but also others such as Tolstoy, The Dalai Lama, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Clara Barton, John Lennon, Bertrand Russell, Ivan Illich etc.
Record Number 2357
Reference Type Book
Author Thomas Merton, (mention)
Year 1938
Title Original 1938 Columbian Yearbook Place Published: Baltimore
Publisher Garamond Press
Number of Pages 222 pages. Short Title: Original 1938 Columbian Yearbook
Notes Cloth; this item contains mention of Merton as part of the Columbia Jester art staff (pg 85). Merton is also mentioned as contributing a section of his new book (titled "Mister and Mrs. Jim Huttner") to the Columbia Review (page 88); and he is also noted as Frates in Universitate of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Merton is also mentioned in Sachems for 1937. This yearbook is Robert Lax's graduation year and so his photo and contributions appear with the senior class.
Record Number 2310
Reference Type Audiovisual Material
Author Thomas Merton, (subject)
Title Vintage Photo- Thomas Merton: A Film Biography Short Title: Vintage Photo- Thomas Merton: A Film Biography
Notes Photo, approx Size: 8.2" x 10.1". Introduces film release on PBS and gives a brief description of Merton.
Label NV
Record Number 2173
Reference Type Book
Author Thomas Merton, (text)
Year 1966
Title Gethsemani / A Life of Praise - signed
Publisher Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition First hard cover edition Short Title: Gethsemani / A Life of Praise - signed
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton's Abbot Dom James Fox who also stamped the words "All for Jesus thru Mary with a smile". Also laid in is a Christmas card, also inscribed and signed by Dom James Fox.
Label NYU
Record Number 2407
Reference Type Pamphlet
Author Thomas Merton, (Victor Hammer publisher)
Year 1956
Title Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages French-folded. 8 pages with 4 printable.
Edition First soft cover limited edition (1 of 54) - inscribed and signed by Merton. Short Title: Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / signed
Notes Soft cover; this is a prayer printed on one sheet, French-folded, to make four printable pages (8 total). This copy is inscribed by Thomas Merton: "Very gratefully and with the promise of special prayers in Christ Our Lord/ Fr. Louis Merton." Merton took the name Father Louis on entering the Abbey of Gethsemani. OCLC/Worldcat locates only two confirmed copies, none signed. According to a note by Carolyn Reading Hammer, wife of Victor Hammer, 54 copies were printed - of which Merton received 50 copies and Hammer retained four (info retrieved from Worldcat). This item is not listed in Dell'Isola, but is item 2.836 in Breit and Daggy and is listed in the title finder of Burton's bibliography. The only other place where it has been published is in Convivium 2 in Italian as "Preghiera al sacro cuore". An exceptionally uncommon Merton item.
Label NUDSL
Record Number 2133
Reference Type Book
Author Thomas Merton, Sun Tzu, LaoTzu
Year 1992
Title Four Chinese Classics: The Way of Chung Tzu / The Art of War /Tao Teh Ching / I Ching Place Published: Boston
Publisher Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Edition First edition paperbacks in pictorial slipcase. Short Title: Four Chinese Classics: The Way of Chung Tzu / The Art of War /Tao Teh Ching / I Ching
Notes Four undersized soft cover editions in slipcase.
Label N
Record Number 2253
Reference Type Audiovisual Material
Author Thomas Merton; Introduction by Fr. Anthony Ciorra, Ph.D
Year 2012
Title Thomas Merton the 12 Degrees of Humility
Publisher Now You Know Media
Notes Audio CDs; 16 lectures on 8 Cds.
Label NV
Series Title Gethsemani Classroom Series
Type CD Short Title: Thomas Merton the 12 Degrees of Humility
Record Number 2254
Reference Type Audiovisual Material
Author Thomas Merton; Introduction by Fr. Anthony Ciorra, Ph.D
Year 2012
Title Thomas Merton Ways of Prayer: A Desert Father's Wisdom
Publisher Now You Know Media Short Title: Thomas Merton Ways of Prayer: A Desert Father's Wisdom
Notes Audio CDs; 14 lectures on 7 CDs.
Label NV
Series Title Gethsemani Classroom Series
Record Number 2255
Reference Type Audiovisual Material
Author Thomas Merton; Introduction by Fr. Anthony Ciorra, Ph.D
Year 2012
Title Thomas Merton's Great Sermons
Publisher Now You Know Media Short Title: Thomas Merton's Great Sermons
Notes Audio CDs; 4 Sermons on 2 CDs.
Label NV
Record Number 2256
Reference Type Audiovisual Material
Author Thomas Merton; Introduction by Fr. Anthony Ciorra, Ph.D
Year 2012
Title Thomas Merton on Sufism
Publisher Now You Know Media Short Title: Thomas Merton on Sufism
Notes Audio CDs; 14 lectures on 7 CDs.
Label NV
Record Number 2483
Reference Type Book
Author Thurston, Bonnie
Year 2009
Title For God Alone / A Primer on Prayer - signed Place Published: Notre Dame, Indiana
Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
Number of Pages 227
Edition First soft cover printing. Short Title: For God Alone / A Primer on Prayer - signed
Notes Soft cover; inscribed and signed by Bonnie Thurston.
Label NY
Record Number 2251
Reference Type Conference Proceedings
Author Thurston, James Conner OCSO; David Scott; Bonnie
Title The Voice of the Stranger / Three Papers and a Homily from the 7th General Meeting & Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Edition First soft cover edition.
Notes Soft cover.
Label N
Date April 4 - 6 Short Title: The Voice of the Stranger / Three Papers and a Homily from the 7th General Meeting & Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Pages 58
Year_of_Conference 2008
Record Number 2296
Reference Type Audiovisual Material
Author Trappist Monks, (Program notes by Thomas Merton)
Year 1973
Title Laudate Dominum (Collectors Series) - Gregorian Chant by Trappist Monks (LP) Place Published: New York
Publisher Columbia Records Short Title: Laudate Dominum (Collectors Series) - Gregorian Chant by Trappist Monks (LP)
Notes LP record and jacket; program notes written by Merton on back of jacket. This item is the Special Reissue Collectors Series edition.
Label NV
Record Number 2248
Reference Type Pamphlet
Author Unknown
Year 1946
Title Devotions in honor of the Forty Hours of Adoration Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher Jefferies and Manz Short Title: Devotions in honor of the Forty Hours of Adoration
Notes Soft cover pamphlet; this aitem was brought into the collection as a possible connection to the Merton work (published by the same publisher) titled, "Devotions in honor of St. John of the Cross
Record Number 2138
Reference Type Book
Author Vanier, Jean
Year 1970
Title Original collection of 1 signed book by Jean Vanier Short Title: Original collection of 1 signed book by Jean Vanier
Notes This item contains one signed book by Merton admirer Jean Vanier ("Tears of Silence") and is inscribed to Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, with accompanying certificate of authenticity from seller.
Label NUY2
Record Number 2391
Reference Type Journal Article
Author Vera, Mary Pat McCabe; Adele Cole; Ruth Herbert; Louise Mozzo; Janet Hohman; Betty Ann McKean; Gloria Warfield; Eileen Insley; Sister M.
Year 1950
Title Merton and Arrangement; A Cistercian's Art With Words; Poetry and the Contemplative Life; The Cistercians and Art; Merton and Liturgy; Merton and France; Tears of the Blind Lions; The Man in the Divided Sea; Masks of Evil
Journal Spheres / Thomas Merton Issue (Mount St. Agnes College, Baltimore, Maryland)
Volume Third Number
Notes Soft cover; this item represents an early periodical wholly dedicated to the writing and thought of Thomas Merton.
Label NPU
Date Spring Short Title: Merton and Arrangement; A Cistercian's Art With Words; Poetry and the Contemplative Life; The Cistercians and Art; Merton and Liturgy; Merton and France; Tears of the Blind Lions; The Man in the Divided Sea; Masks of Evil
Pages 33 page pamphlet.
Record Number 2245
Reference Type Manuscript
Author Victor Hammer, (foreward by Thomas Merton)
Title Collection of Victor Hammer related items Short Title: Collection of Victor Hammer related items
Notes This item contains: - "For the Typographer" by The Anvil Press and printed on Magnai handmade paper made in 1927 with a watermark of the pressmark of Stamperia del Santuccio. - "Victor Hammer and the Wells College Press" (American Uncial Alphabet) contains specimens of Hammer's type from Wells College Press where Hammer printed, taught and cut types from 1939-1948. 1/500. - "Victor Hammer Artist and Printer - Prospectus". Signed by Carolyn Hammer. - "Measa" - Spring 1952, #4. - "Mesa" - Autumn 1955, #5
Label NUY
Record Number 2378
Reference Type Journal Article
Author W. H. Ferry, Robert Lax, John Eudes Bamberger
Year 1984
Title The Merton We Knew / Personal Reflections by Three of his Friends
Journal Commonweal
Volume Volume CXI
Notes Soft cover. This item received with gratitude from Paul Turner Harris, who was an admirer of Merton and personal friend of both Dorothy Day and Catherine Doherty.
Label NP
Date October 19 Short Title: The Merton We Knew / Personal Reflections by Three of his Friends
Pages 553-557
Record Number 2241
Reference Type Book
Author Waldron, Sharn
Year 1996
Title A Madman Runs to the East / signed Place Published: London
Publisher Minerva Press
Number of Pages 66
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: A Madman Runs to the East / signed
Notes Soft cover; this item is inscribed and signed by Waldron.
Label NY
Record Number 2498
Reference Type Book
Author William Johnston, (foreword by Thomas Merton)
Year 1975
Title The Mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing / A Modern Interpretation
Volume Volume 8
Publisher Abbey Press
Number of Pages 258 pages
Edition Second edition. Short Title: The Mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing / A Modern Interpretation
Notes Soft cover.
Label NC
Series Title The Religious Experience Series Place Published: St. Meinrad, Indiana
Series Editor Malatesta, Edward
Record Number 2485
Reference Type Book
Author Williams, John Moses; foreword by Rowan
Year 2014
Title Divine Discontent / The Prophetic Voice of Thomas Merton - signed Place Published: London
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Number of Pages 242 Short Title: Divine Discontent / The Prophetic Voice of Thomas Merton - signed
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Rowan Williams (at the 2015 ITMS conference held in Louisville, KY).
Label NYB