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Record Number 2195
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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.
Author Merton, Thomas
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.
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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
Author Merton, Thomas
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