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Record Number
1300
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2006
Title
Two More Idas / Blessed Ida of Louvain and Blessed Ida of Nivelles
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
Vol 41, #1
Notes
Soft cover; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 79-91 Short Title: Two More Idas / Blessed Ida of Louvain and Blessed Ida of Nivelles
Record Number
1296
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1994
Title
Saint Malachy "The Irishman
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
vol 29, #3
Notes
Soft cover; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 233-239 Short Title: Saint Malachy "The Irishman
Record Number
1297
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2000
Title
Blessed William of Saint-Thierry / Monk of Signy
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
Vol 35, #1
Notes
Soft cover; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 3-12 Short Title: Blessed William of Saint-Thierry / Monk of Signy
Record Number
1098
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2003
Title
Saint Gertrude, Nun of Helfta, Germany
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
38.4
Notes
Soft cover; also includes articles by Mark Delcogliano, E. Rozanne Elder, Chrysogonus Waddell, David Bell and Eleanor Campion; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 449-458. Short Title: Saint Gertrude, Nun of Helfta, Germany
Record Number
1097
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2002
Title
Blessed Peter "Monoculus", Abbot of Igny, then of Clairvaux, France
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
37.4
Notes
Soft cover; also contains articles by John Chryssavgis, Charles Dumont, John Eudes Bamberger, Elizabeth Freeman, Aelred of Rievaulx and Tim Davis; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 443-451. Short Title: Blessed Peter "Monoculus", Abbot of Igny, then of Clairvaux, France
Record Number
1096
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2002
Title
Saint Hugh, Abbot of Bonnevaux near Vienne, France
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
37.1
Notes
Soft cover; also contains articles by Shawn Madison Krahmer, Luke Anderson, David Bell, Magdalena Aust, Raphael Arnaiz Baron and Aelred of Rievaulx; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 13-21. Short Title: Saint Hugh, Abbot of Bonnevaux near Vienne, France
Record Number
1093
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2000
Title
Saint Lutgarde / Nun of Aywieres, Belgium
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
35.2
Notes
Soft cover; also includes articles by Adalbert De Vogue, Marsha Dutton, Jens Ruffer, Hilary Costello, Peter Gilmore and Paschal Baumstein; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 219-230. Short Title: Saint Lutgarde / Nun of Aywieres, Belgium
Record Number
1095
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
2001
Title
Saint Peter of Tarentaise / First Abbot of Tamie, Archbishop of Tarentaise (now Moutiers), France
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
36.3
Notes
Soft cover; also contains articles by Terrence Kardong, Adalbert De Vogue, Bernard of Clairvaux, Dominique Bertrand, Patrick Terrell Gray and Sheryl Frances Chen; this item has not been published in a Merton book.
Label
T
Pages
Pages 337-347. Short Title: Saint Peter of Tarentaise / First Abbot of Tamie, Archbishop of Tarentaise (now Moutiers), France
Record Number
847
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1998
Title
The Three Founders of Citeaux / offprint Place Published: Huntsville Library/Archive: Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trintiy
Notes
Soft cover offprint.
Label
MUT
Pages
The pagination of the original articles has been preserved.
Type of Work
First separate soft cover issue, an offprint from Cistercian Studies Quarterly 33 (1998). Short Title: The Three Founders of Citeaux / offprint
Record Number
2533
Reference Type
Pamphlet
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
1086
Reference Type
Book
Year
1996
Title
Life and Holiness Place Published: New York
Publisher
Image Doubleday Books
Number of Pages
119
Edition
First Image Doubleday soft cover edition. Short Title: Life and Holiness
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
1084
Reference Type
Book
Year
2003
Title
Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers Place Published: Maryknoll, New York
Publisher
Orbis Books
Number of Pages
125
Edition
First hard cover edition Short Title: Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
124
Reference Type
Book
Year
2003
Title
Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers Place Published: Maryknoll, New York
Publisher
Orbis Books
Number of Pages
125
Edition
First hard cover edition Short Title: Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed and inscribed by editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, Robert Ellsberg.
Label
Y
Record Number
1614
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1978
Title
Christian Contemplation
Journal
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
Volume
vol 13
Notes
Soft cover; this article is regarding Merton's preface to the Japanese edition of his book "Seeds of Contemplation".
Label
T
Pages
Pages 3-14. Short Title: Christian Contemplation
Record Number
1957
Reference Type
Book
Year
1967
Title
Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
140
Edition
5th printing enlarged soft cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
307
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1959
Title
Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
239
Edition
First New Directions soft cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
261
Reference Type
Book
Year
1967
Title
Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
140
Edition
4th printing enlarged soft cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
2117
Reference Type
Book
Year
1941-1944
Title
Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year / as part of full "Poets of the Month" series 1941-1944. Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
Full soft cover edition in slip cases (1941-1944). Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year / as part of full "Poets of the Month" series 1941-1944.
Notes
This extremely scarce item is the full run of the Poets of the Month series (complete with introductory pamphlet) containing 42 issues in original printed wraps (some illustrated) from 1941-1944. Each year is housed in a specially labelled slip cases (4 in all). For the first three years, 12 issues were published annually while in 1944, 6 issues were published (including Merton's poetry book). Each issue was printed by a different free press. Included are works by Thomas Merton (first book), M. Cowley, R. Eberhart, J. Berryman (first book), K. Patchen, Dylan Thomas, G. Barker, V. Nabokov, C. Aiken, D. Schwartz, C. Rakosi, J. M. Brinnin, E. Prokosch, W. C. Williams, F. T. Prince, W. Townley Scott, M. Van Doren, Hopkins, Rilke, etc. This collection comes from the personal library of James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions, the press that printed this series (with his ex-libris sticker inside front cover of introductory pamphlet).
Label
UO
Record Number
2357
Reference Type
Book
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
1357
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Year
2007
Title
Contemplative Prayer Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher
St. Anthony Messenger Press
Notes
CD od book read by Jonathan Montaldo.
Label
V
Extent of Work
4 CD set Short Title: Contemplative Prayer
Record Number
1014
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Year
1964
Title
The Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
Spirit Records (The Catholic Poetry Society)
Notes
LP record album featuring 21 poems of Thomas Merton read by Richard Gray.
Label
UV
Extent of Work
LP record album Short Title: The Poems of Thomas Merton
Record Number
154
Reference Type
Book
Year
1989
Title
Thomas Merton: Honorable Reader, Reflections on My Work Place Published: New York
Publisher
Crossroad Publishing Company
Number of Pages
172
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton: Honorable Reader, Reflections on My Work
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
70
Reference Type
Book
Year
1989
Title
Thomas Merton: Honorable Reader, Reflections on My Work Place Published: New York
Publisher
Crossroad Publishing Company
Number of Pages
172
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton: Honorable Reader, Reflections on My Work
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2310
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
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
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
2058
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
Den Heliga Tystnaden / Swedish translation of Silence in Heaven Place Published: Malmo, Sweden
Publisher
Allhem Forlag
Number of Pages
149 pages.
Edition
First Swedish hard cover edition.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; ninety photographs and many texts from religious writings.
Label
F
Translator
Cinthio, Erik Short Title: Den Heliga Tystnaden / Swedish translation of Silence in Heaven
Record Number
1342
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Gethsemani Magnificat Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Gethsemani Magnificat
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); item commemorates the 100 year anniversary of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani.
Record Number
695
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1949
Title
Gethsemani Magnificat Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Gethsemani Magnificat
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); laid in is what appears to be the original copy of the address by Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Abbey of Gethsemani. Five stapled pages (last page detached) with moving poem on last page.
Label
UC
Record Number
433
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1949
Title
Gethsemani Magnificat Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Gethsemani Magnificat
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued).
Label
U
Record Number
168
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life Place Published: New York
Publisher
The Studio Publications, Inc., in association with Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Number of Pages
69
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; ninety photographs and many texts from religious writings.
Label
C
Record Number
169
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life Place Published: London
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Number of Pages
69
Edition
First GB Edition Short Title: Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; ninety photographs and many texts from religious writings.
Label
C
Record Number
55
Reference Type
Book
Year
1966
Title
Gethsemani / A Life of Praise Place Published: Trappist
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition
First printing, text by Thomas Merton Short Title: Gethsemani / A Life of Praise
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
C
Record Number
1844
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1970
Title
The LIfe that Unifies
Journal
Sisters Today
Volume
Volume 42
Notes
Soft cover bound as complete hard cover volume #42. This article is a transcription of a conference given by Thomas Merton at a Day of Recollection.
Label
P
Date
October Short Title: The LIfe that Unifies
Pages
Pages 65-73.
Record Number
1821
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1970
Title
A Conference on Prayer
Journal
Sisters Today
Volume
Volume 41
Notes
Soft cover as part of the complete bound hard cover volume #41; this article is a transcription of the talk given by Thomas Merton in Calcutta to the conference of religious of India on the feast of Christ the King, October 27, 1968. This item has not been published elsewhere in a Merton publication.
Label
P
Date
April Short Title: A Conference on Prayer
Pages
Pages 449-456.
Record Number
1716
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1954
Title
The Athanasian Creed
Journal
Jubilee Magazine
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover; this article has not been published in a Merton book and has an introduction and is translated by Merton. This volume is part of a bound volume of Jubilee Magazines covering the dates May 1954 - April 1955.
Label
J
Date
May Short Title: The Athanasian Creed
Pages
Pages 44-47.
Record Number
2407
Reference Type
Pamphlet
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
277
Reference Type
Book
Year
1994
Title
Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti Letters Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher
Sheed and Ward
Number of Pages
128
Edition
First edition soft cover. Short Title: Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti Letters
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
128
Reference Type
Book
Year
1978
Title
Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti Letters Place Published: Kansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Sheed, Andrews and McMeel, Inc.
Number of Pages
128
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti Letters
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2120
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
The Thomas Merton Studies Center Place Published: Santa Barbara, California
Publisher
Unicorn Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: The Thomas Merton Studies Center
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); limited edition - one of 500 copies.
Label
L
Record Number
414
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1971
Title
The Thomas Merton Studies Center Place Published: Santa Barbara, California
Publisher
Unicorn Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: The Thomas Merton Studies Center
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); limited edition - one of 500 copies.
Label
L
Record Number
389
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1971
Title
The Thomas Merton Studies Center Place Published: Santa Barbara, California
Publisher
Unicorn Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First soft cover limited edition. Short Title: The Thomas Merton Studies Center
Notes
Soft cover; limited edition - one of 1000 copies.
Label
L
Record Number
1072
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1978
Title
Three High Points in Collecting at the Richard Gleeson Library / Donohue Rare Book Room / University of San Francisco
Notes
Soft cover printed by Lawton kennedy. This is a special limited edition version of the keepsake prepared for the 20th anniversary of the Gleeson Library Associates on October 9, 1977 which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the testimonial dinner for Father Gleeson which resulted in the decision to build the library at the University of San Francisco named for him. The three panels are of the printed jacket for Thomas Merton's "The Solitary Life"; the Utopian Alphabet as devised by Sir Thomas More (taken from the title page of the first edition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"); and a page of the original calligraphic excercise done by Eric Gill (from the Eric Gill collection). Limited edition - 1 of 200.
Label
ULD
Type of Work
Soft cover fold out (three pannels) with one panel showing the front of the printed jacket for Thomas Merton's "The Solitary Life" which was printed at Lexington, Kentucky at the Stamperia Del Santuccio by Victor Hammer in 1960. This is a limited edition - 1/200. Short Title: Three High Points in Collecting at the Richard Gleeson Library / Donohue Rare Book Room / University of San Francisco
Record Number
2133
Reference Type
Book
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
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
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
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
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
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
1429
Reference Type
Book
Year
1983
Title
Self and the World / two Directions of the Spiritual LIfe
Edition
Offprint soft cover edition from Cistercian Studies #2, 1983 / signed. Short Title: Self and the World / two Directions of the Spiritual LIfe
Notes
Soft cover offprint; inscribed and signed by Bonnie Thurston to Jim Forest "Many thanks to Jim for gifts of word and self"; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of Jim Forest.
Label
MYT
Record Number
2251
Reference Type
Conference Proceedings
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