Selected Collection
Merton's Poetry Books

68 records, showing 50 per page
Record Number 400
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Lax, Robert
Year 1969
Title A Poem For Thomas Merton Place Published: Grand Central Station, New York
Publisher Journeyman Books
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: A Poem For Thomas Merton
Notes Soft cover.
Label UO
Record Number 436
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1971
Title Early Poems Place Published: Lexington, Kentucky
Publisher Anvil Press
Number of Pages 27
Edition First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: Early Poems
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; limited edition - # 38/150.
Label OL
Record Number 183
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1985
Title Eighteen Poems Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages unlisted
Edition First limited edition printing. Short Title: Eighteen Poems
Notes Cloth in slipcase; limited edition - # 220/250.
Label OL
Record Number 244
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1969
Title The Geography of Lograire Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 153
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Geography of Lograire
Notes Soft cover.
Label O
Record Number 265
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
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; review copy with slip by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
Label RO
Record Number 294
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1963
Title Emblems of a Season of Fury Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 149
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: Emblems of a Season of Fury
Notes Soft cover.
Label O
Record Number 405
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title Clement of Alexandria: Selections from Protreptikos Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 27
Edition First soft cover edition.
Notes Soft cover.
Label clement_pro
Translator Merton, Thomas Short Title: Clement of Alexandria: Selections from Protreptikos
Record Number 408
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1949
Title The Tears of the Blind Lions Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 32
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Tears of the Blind Lions
Notes Soft cover.
Label O
Record Number 437
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1971
Title Early Poems Place Published: Lexington, Kentucky
Publisher Anvil Press
Number of Pages 27
Edition First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: Early Poems
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; limited edition - # 119/150. This item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label OL
Record Number 188
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1996
Title Four Poems in French Place Published: Lexington, Kentucky
Publisher The Anvil Press
Number of Pages 53
Edition First hard cover limited edition.
Notes Cloth; composition: Carolyn R. Hammer; Presswork: Paul E. Holbrook; limited edition - # 47/100.
Label OL
Translator Pickens, Rupert E. Short Title: Four Poems in French
Record Number 435
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1944
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 OU
Record Number 434
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1944
Title Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year
Notes Soft cover.
Label O
Record Number 432
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation to be Scratched on the Walls of a Cave Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Edition First soft cover limited edition. Short Title: Original Child Bomb: Points for Meditation to be Scratched on the Walls of a Cave
Notes Soft cover; limited edition - one of 8000.
Label LO
Record Number 512
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title Original Child Bomb / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Edition First soft cover edition. Signed by Merton. Short Title: Original Child Bomb / signed
Notes soft cover; inscribed by Merton, "To Jim cordially Tom Merton". Jim is known to be Jim Hollaway, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Berea College (from Andrew Franklin, Chestnut Street Bookshops).
Label SO
Record Number 511
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title Original Child Bomb / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Edition First hard cover, signed, limited edition. Short Title: Original Child Bomb / signed
Notes Cloth in cellophane wrapper; limited edition 1 of 500; signed by Merton.
Label SOL
Record Number 2301
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1957
Title The Strange Islands Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 102
Edition First hard cover edition - signed Short Title: The Strange Islands
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; Signed on the copyright page by the book's designer, Stefan Salter.
Label NYO
Record Number 547
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Landscape, Prophet and Wild Dog Place Published: Syracuse, NY
Publisher Black Bird Press
Edition First hard cover limited edition portfolio. 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 - # 15/25. Signed by Don Cortese.
Label YOLA
Record Number 520
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1957
Title Pax #4 / Five Poems by Thomas Merton / "Wisdom"; "Song: In the Shows of the Round Ox"; "Birdcage Walk"; "Nocturne"; "Landscape". Place Published: New York
Publisher Pax #4
Number of Pages 1 page, 12"x18
Edition First broadside edition. Short Title: Pax #4 / Five Poems by Thomas Merton / "Wisdom"; "Song: In the Shows of the Round Ox"; "Birdcage Walk"; "Nocturne"; "Landscape".
Notes Newsprint broadside. Pax was a "magazine" of poetry and art in which the work was the free contribution of the artists themselves "as their way of working toward an appreciation of the ideal of an enduring peace: the work of justice, the fruit of love". Pax was edited and published by Robert Lax (close friend to Merton) from the offices of Jubilee magazine starting in the mid-1950’s to the early 1960’s and was revived for a few minor issues in the 1980’s. This item is part of a portfolio of Pax items in this collection that contains the following:
Label UOP
Record Number 189
Reference Type Book Section
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1939
Title Graduate School (poems)
Publisher Columbia University Press
Edition First hard cover edition Short Title: Graduate School (poems)
Notes Blue cloth, no jacket as issued. Contains the first published work of Thomas Merton, written when he was a graduate student at Columbia.
Label UO1
Pages 60-67
Book Title Columbia Poetry Place Published: New York
Record Number 126
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1950
Title Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: London
Publisher Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages 113
Edition First GB hard cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 127
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1950
Title Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: London
Publisher Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages 113
Edition First GB hard cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 111
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1977
Title The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: London
Publisher Sheldon Press
Number of Pages 1046
Edition First GB hard cover edition. Short Title: The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 110
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1977
Title The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 1046
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; laid in is a review slip "With compliments of the publisher".
Label RO
Record Number 101
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1962
Title Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: Original Child Bomb
Notes Cloth no dust jacket (as issued).
Label O
Record Number 94
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Cables to the Ace Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 60
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: Cables to the Ace
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 95
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1949
Title The Tears of the Blind Lions Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 32
Edition Second hard cover printing. Short Title: The Tears of the Blind Lions
Notes Orange cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 89
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
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.
Label O
Record Number 42
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1957
Title The Strange Islands Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 102
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Strange Islands
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 43
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1957
Title The Strange Islands Place Published: London
Publisher Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages 88
Edition First UK hard cover review copy edition. Short Title: The Strange Islands
Notes Cloth and dust jacket; review copy; laid in are slips from Hollis and Carter and the Manchester Guardian.
Label URO
Record Number 3
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1946
Title A Man in the Divided Sea Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 155
Edition 2nd Printing Short Title: A Man in the Divided Sea
Notes Cloth.
Label O
Record Number 4
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1946
Title A Man in the Divided Sea Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 155
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: A Man in the Divided Sea
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 5
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
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 6
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
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 1794
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1946
Title A Man in the Divided Sea Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Number of Pages 155
Edition First hard cover edition. Short Title: A Man in the Divided Sea
Notes Cloth and dust jacket.
Label O
Record Number 548
Reference Type Book
Picture
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1968
Title Landscape, Prophet and Wild Dog Place Published: Syracuse, NY
Publisher Black Bird Press
Edition First hard cover limited edition portfolio. 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 - # 19/25. Signed by Don Cortese.
Label YOLA
Record Number 2582
Reference Type Book Section
Editor Kelly, Paris Leary and Robert
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1965
Title Seven Poems by Merton
Publisher Anchor Books
Notes Soft cover, anthology of poems. This item was an Ordination gift from Merton scholar Patricia Burton.
Label NO
Pages Pages 273-281. Short Title: Seven Poems by Merton
Book Title A Contoversy of Poets Place Published: Garden City, NY
Record Number 1487
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
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 1577
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
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 1640
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
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 1683
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1961
Title Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher Pax #16
Edition First newsprint brodside edition. Short Title: Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb
Notes Newsprint broadside. Pax was a "magazine" of poetry and art in which the work was the free contribution of the artists themselves "as their way of working toward an appreciation of the ideal of an enduring peace: the work of justice, the fruit of love". Pax was edited and published by Robert Lax (close friend to Merton) from the offices of Jubilee magazine starting in the mid-1950’s to the early 1960’s and was revived for a few minor issues in the 1980’s. This item is part of a portfolio of Pax items in this collection that contains the following:
Label UAO
Record Number 1684
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1961
Title Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher Pax #16
Edition First newsprint brodside edition. Short Title: Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb
Notes Newsprint broadside. Pax was a "magazine" of poetry and art in which the work was the free contribution of the artists themselves "as their way of working toward an appreciation of the ideal of an enduring peace: the work of justice, the fruit of love". Pax was edited and published by Robert Lax (close friend to Merton) from the offices of Jubilee magazine starting in the mid-1950’s to the early 1960’s and was revived for a few minor issues in the 1980’s. This item is part of a portfolio of Pax items in this collection that contains the following:
Label UAO
Record Number 1693
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1961
Title Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher Pax #16
Edition First newsprint brodside edition. Short Title: Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb
Notes Newsprint broadside. Pax was a "magazine" of poetry and art in which the work was the free contribution of the artists themselves "as their way of working toward an appreciation of the ideal of an enduring peace: the work of justice, the fruit of love". Pax was edited and published by Robert Lax (close friend to Merton) from the offices of Jubilee magazine starting in the mid-1950’s to the early 1960’s and was revived for a few minor issues in the 1980’s. This item is part of a portfolio of Pax items in this collection that contains the following:
Label UAO
Record Number 1366
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1944
Title Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year Place Published: New York
Publisher New Directions
Edition First soft cover edition. Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year
Notes Soft cover; Merton's first book.
Label O
Record Number 2000
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1947
Title Figures for an Apocalypse (special full leather edition) Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher New Direction
Number of Pages 111
Edition First special edition, leather bound hard cover printing Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse (special full leather edition)
Notes Bound in full red leather with gilt decorations, raised hubs, gilt titles and colorful endpapers. This item is a special edition, up to now apparently unknown and uncatalogued.
Label OU
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 2077
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1944
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.
Label O
Record Number 2087
Reference Type Book
Author Merton, Thomas
Year 1947
Title Figures for an Apocalypse / signed Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher New Direction
Number of Pages 111
Edition First hard cover printing. Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse / signed
Notes Black cloth and dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton, "In Corde Jesu, F.M. Louis OCR". Merton signed some of his books with his Monastic name "Louis" and also used the blessing "In Corde Jesu" (In the heart of Jesus) and "OCR" (Order of Cistercians - reformed - research). He used a similar method of signing, for example, in the book, "Thomas Merton and James Laughlin - Selected Letters" (see page 38). A rare and interesting find, coming originally from the significant collection of a Merton collector.
Label SUO
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 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 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