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192 records, showing 50 per page
Record Number
4
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
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
121
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1969
Title
The Climate of Monastic Prayer
Publisher
Cistercian Publications, Inc.
Number of Pages
154
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Climate of Monastic Prayer
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
TU
Series Title
Cistercian Studies Series - number one Place Published: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Record Number
127
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
189
Reference Type
Book Section
Picture
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
188
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
183
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
294
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
308
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1975
Title
He Is Risen Place Published: Niles, IL.
Publisher
Argus Communications
Number of Pages
59
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: He Is Risen
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
1915
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / Mepkin Abbey Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Cistercian Book Service
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Mepkin Abbey
Notes
Soft cover; although this item is published by the Cistercian Book Service in Spencer, Massachusetts, the cover indicates Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
Label
6U
Record Number
1907
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life (The Desert Shall Bloom) / Our Lady of Santa Ritas Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Cistercian Book Service
Edition
First Santa Ritas soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life (The Desert Shall Bloom) / Our Lady of Santa Ritas
Notes
Soft cover; the cover of this item has the title "The Desert Shall Bloom" and "Our Lady of Santa Ritas", but internally it is identical to the Spencer (1974) edition of "Cistercian Life".
Label
6U
Record Number
1908
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1983
Title
Vie Cistercienne (French)
Publisher
L'Abbaye de Timadeuc
Number of Pages
96
Edition
Reprint soft cover edition. Short Title: Vie Cistercienne (French)
Notes
Soft cover; French translation of Cistercian Life.
Label
6F
Record Number
1910
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1977
Title
Vie Cistercienne (French)
Publisher
L'Abbaye de Timadeuc
Number of Pages
96
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Vie Cistercienne (French)
Notes
Soft cover; French translation of Cistercian Life.
Label
6F
Record Number
1855
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1969
Title
Come to the Mountain Place Published: Snowmass, Colorado
Publisher
St. Benedict's Monastery
Edition
Second soft cover edition. Short Title: Come to the Mountain
Notes
Soft cover; smaller in size that the 1964 edition; this item is a precurser to the Cistercian Life pamphlet series..
Label
6U
Record Number
1814
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Bethleham Abbey Place Published: Portglenone, Co. Antrim, North Ireland
Publisher
Our Lady of Bethleham Abbey
Edition
First Irish soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Bethleham Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
1681
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / The Sign of Jonas Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
354
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition" Short Title: Collected Edition / The Sign of Jonas
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
IU
Record Number
1478
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / Thoughts in Solitude Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
101
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / Thoughts in Solitude
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
IU
Record Number
1358
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / alternate cover Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Cistercian Book Service
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / alternate cover
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6
Record Number
1288
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1978
Title
Hagia Sophia Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First Magnani paper cloth edition. Short Title: Hagia Sophia
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); "When, in 1961, Merton gave the manuscript of "Hagia Sophia" to the Stamperia del Santuccio to be published under its imprint, two editions were planned: the first to be a small issue of 50 copies on Magnani paper with a frontispiece engraving, "Hagia Sophia and the Young Christ", after Victor Hammer's triptych painting, 1953-1956. The text pages for this edition were printed in 1961 but as the engraving was not yet finished, the decision was made to re-set the type and print a variant edition on Whatman paper as Opus XVll, 1962, of Stamperia del Santuccio imprints. Victor Hammer never finished the engraving. Now, a decade after his death, and the death of Thomas Merton, the pages of the text that he had printed and the unfinished engraving, printed here from the brass plate as he left it, are together in rememberance in this small volume. - C. R. H., December, 1978" - this text is taken from one of the front pages of this edition. This book is the last one to bear the imprint of Stamperia del Santuccio. Carolyn Hammer printed the frontispiece and title page for this 1978 edition.
Label
UDL
Record Number
1201
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1963
Title
The Black Revolution Place Published: Atlanta
Publisher
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Number of Pages
14 unnumbered pages (starting and ending on the inside of the front and back covers)
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Black Revolution
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
1198
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
La Montee Vers La Lumiere / limited edition Place Published: Paris
Publisher
Editions Albin Michel
Number of Pages
234
Edition
First hard cover French limited edition.
Notes
Cloth; this is a first limited edition with the Alfama watermark but it is unclear whether it is a proof edition, or number 1 or perhaps Roman numeral I of the 310 limited editions that were printed (300 numbered and 10 Roman numerals).
Label
LUF
Translator
Tadie, Marie Short Title: La Montee Vers La Lumiere / limited edition
Record Number
1165
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1948
Title
Louteringsberg / Dutch translation of Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Utrecht Brussel
Publisher
Het Spectrum
Number of Pages
441
Edition
First Dutch hard cover edition of Seven Storey Mountain.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
7UF
Translator
Noorbeek, Andre Short Title: Louteringsberg / Dutch translation of Seven Storey Mountain
Original Publication
Seven Storey Mountain
Record Number
1032
Reference Type
Journal Article
Picture
Year
1963
Title
Hagia Sophia
Journal
Ramparts
Volume
1
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first time this item has appeared in a periodical.
Label
PU
Date
March Short Title: Hagia Sophia
Pages
65-72
Record Number
1025
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1964
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates (Cardinal Books)
Number of Pages
230
Edition
First Burns and Oates soft cover edition. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
1007
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1978
Title
What is Contemplation? Place Published: Springfield, Illinois
Publisher
Templegate Publishers
Number of Pages
78
Edition
First Templegate soft cover edition. Short Title: What is Contemplation?
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
970
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1953
Title
Veinte Poemas (Spanish translation of twenty Merton poems) Place Published: Madrid
Publisher
Ediciones Rialp, S.A.
Number of Pages
64
Edition
First Spanish soft cover limited edition - #65 of 600 Short Title: Veinte Poemas (Spanish translation of twenty Merton poems)
Notes
Soft cover; limited edition (#65/600).
Label
LU
Record Number
932
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / No Man is an Island Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
233
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / No Man is an Island
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
I
Record Number
927
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1947
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse / signed Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Direction
Number of Pages
111
Edition
2nd hard cover printing Signed and inscribed by Thomas Merton and James Fox (Merton's Abbot at the time). Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket. This item was inscribed and signed by Merton and James Fox (Merton's Abbot at the time). Merton writes, "with my prayers + best wishes in Jesus and Mary, Fr. Louis" (his religious name). Fox writes, "With gratitude and a rememberance in our prayers and sacrifices, fM James Fox" which is rubber stamped "All for Jesus through Mary with a smile" between his name and the inscription. This item is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Label
SUOY
Record Number
918
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1956
Title
Marthe, Marie et Lazare Place Published: Paris
Publisher
Desclee De Brower
Number of Pages
145
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Marthe, Marie et Lazare
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
UF
Record Number
870
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1964
Title
Notes by the Artist for an Exhibit of His Drawings / signed Place Published: Louisville, Kentucky
Publisher
Spalding College
Number of Pages
Two folded sheets stapled inside oversized folded deckle edged (front cover) sheet.
Edition
First limited soft cover edition / signed by Merton. Short Title: Notes by the Artist for an Exhibit of His Drawings / signed
Notes
Soft cover; statement on title page reads, "These notes were written expressly to accompany a showing of 26 drawings first displayed privately on November 13, 1964, at Catherine Spalding College, Louisville, Kentucky." This item is stated as a "Limited Edition" and is signed by Thomas Merton.
Label
SLU
Record Number
868
Reference Type
Book Section
Picture
Year
1946
Title
The Trappist Abbey: Matins / Our Lady of Gethsemani / signed
Publisher
The Modern Library
Notes
Signed poem by Thomas Merton. Single leaf (pages 419 and 420) with heading "Modern Poetry *Thomas Merton*" and the title on page 420 and the poem "Lazarus" on page 419 (under the heading "Capetanakis"). Signed by Merton at the bottom of page 420 and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. This item is part of the Modern Library's "A New Anthology of Modern Poetry, revised edition" - 1946 (also in this collection).
Label
SU
Pages
Single leaf (page # 419 and 420). Short Title: The Trappist Abbey: Matins / Our Lady of Gethsemani / signed
Book Title
A New Anthology of Modern Poetry / Revised Edition Place Published: New York
Record Number
838
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
The Root of War
Number of Pages
4 (one oversized folded sheet)
Edition
First separate printing. Short Title: The Root of War
Notes
Criptic reprint of this essay from the October 1961 issue of "The Catholic Worker" - probably the first separtate printing. "The Root of War is Fear" was the first in a series of Catholic Worker articles by Merton criticizing the arms race and the Cold War. It appeared again later that year, in somewhat shortened form, in Merton's book "New Seeds of Contemplation". This unusual pamphlet printing, with title shortened to "The Root of War", most likely was published in 1961 and came from the personal library of John Beecher (1904-80), noted social protest poet and fine press publisher. Beecher also published "On Acquiring a Cistercian Breviary", a poem dedicated to Merton which is also a part of this collection.
Label
MU
Record Number
840
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1953
Title
Trappist Life Place Published: Trappist
Publisher
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
61
Edition
First soft cover limited edition edition - 1/10000. Short Title: Trappist Life
Notes
Soft cover; text largely identical to the text of Cistercian Contemplatives (also by Merton, 1948); limited edition (1 of 10000). Colophon reads, "This Guide is designed and published by The Monks of Our Lady of Gethsemani Trappist, Kentucky A First Edition of 10000 copies was printed in August 1953 by Slater & Gilroy, Inc. Louisville, Kentucky".
Label
LU
Record Number
821
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1969
Title
The Climate of Monastic Prayer
Publisher
Irish University Press
Number of Pages
154
Edition
First Irish hard cover edition. Short Title: The Climate of Monastic Prayer
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
UT
Series Title
Cistercian Studies Series #1 Place Published: Shannon
Record Number
814
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Clement of Alexandria: Selections from Protreptikos Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
27
Edition
First, limited, British soft cover edition - #219/750.
Notes
Soft cover; limited edition set in Dante Type and printed in Italy by Giovanni Mardersteig at Stamperia Valdonega, Verona for Burns and Oates Ltd. - #219/750.
Label
L
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: Clement of Alexandria: Selections from Protreptikos
Record Number
813
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Title
Original letter (TLS) signed by Merton Place Published: Trappist, KY
Notes
One typed paragraph on a single sheet of paper, addressed "Dear Rev. Father" and signed by Merton in ink ("F.M. Louis"). The note regards a 33 page typed manuscript (accompanying Merton's letter) which tells the "Fatima story". On the last page, following the sentence "(Part IV follows)" is the hand written note "in next mail". Merton praises the authors efforts but kindly rejects it as publishable by Gethsemani.
Label
SE
Pages
34 Description of Material: TLS Short Title: Original letter (TLS) signed by Merton
Record Number
804
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1995
Title
The Harmonies of Excess Place Published: Easthampton, Massachusetts
Publisher
Warwick Press
Edition
First soft cover special lettered limited edition - 1/26 - letter "o" . Short Title: The Harmonies of Excess
Notes
Soft cover. From colophon - "Twenty-six lettered copies are sewn into Chiri Senka wrappers. This edition was designed, letterpress printed, and hand sewn at Warwick press in Easthampton, Massachusetts by Carol J. Blinn. The purchase of Victor Hammer's American Uncial Typeface for hand setting at Warwick Press coincides with the propitious arrival of this Merton manuscript in Carol's shop." Limited edition - 1/26 - letter "o
Label
L
Record Number
791
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
2002
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Norwalk, CT
Publisher
The Easton Press
Number of Pages
467
Edition
Deluxe fiftieth anniversary leather bound edition. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Leather bound (no dust jacket as issued) with 22kt gold cover design.
Label
7U
Record Number
777
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1964 -1965
Title
New York World's Fair / Vatican Pavilion Merton Prayer Card
Number of Pages
1 - recto and verso Short Title: New York World's Fair / Vatican Pavilion Merton Prayer Card
Notes
Original prayer card with image of The Pieta on the front and prayer by Thomas Merton on the back. Imprimatur - Francis Cardinal Spellman (Archbishop of New York).
Label
U
Record Number
767
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1964
Title
Collected Edition / The New Man Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
175
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / The New Man
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
IU
Record Number
768
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1964
Title
Collected Edition / New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
230
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
IU
Record Number
771
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1948
Title
Guide to Cistercian Life Place Published: Trappist
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
15
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Guide to Cistercian Life
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
764
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1965
Title
The Way of Chuang Tzu / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
159
Edition
First hard cover edition - signed. Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu / signed
Notes
Cloth in dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton "for ---- + ---- cordial good wishes, Thomas Merton ----- 1966".
Label
S
Record Number
765
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / No Man is an Island Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
233
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / No Man is an Island
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
IU
Record Number
766
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1950
Title
Collected Edition / The Waters of Silence Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
299
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / The Waters of Silence
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket, wrapped in narrow band of paper which has written on it: "Recommended by the Book Society - Waters of Silence".
Label
IU
Record Number
730
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1952
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
198
Edition
First reprinted, undersized, British hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
U
Record Number
714
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Prayer for peace / mimeograph Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
Privately printed at the Abbey of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
Single mimeographed page printed on recto and verso.
Edition
First mimeographed edition. Short Title: Prayer for peace / mimeograph
Notes
First mimeographed edition initially published in the U.S. Congressional Record 108, April 18, 1962, Part 5. A typed note at the end adds: "This prayer, written by T. Merton, was read in the House of Representatives by Congressman Frank Kowalski (D-Connecticut) on April 12, 1962 (Wednesday in Holy Week)"; this item was thought to have come from the Victor Hammer estate.
Label
M
Record Number
712
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Title
If You Seek a Heavenly Light Place Published: San Jose
Publisher
Desert Rose Press
Number of Pages
8 (including covers)
Edition
Reprint cloth edition initially published in "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton"; limited edition - 1/75. Short Title: If You Seek a Heavenly Light
Notes
Accordion folding book in black, gold and silver marbled boards with title printed in red; set in Goudy Thirty Typeface and printed in black; offset lithographic illustration in black and orange of Stonehenge by Virginia Mudd; limited edition - 1/75.
Label
UL
Record Number
707
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Cistercian Book Service
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
709
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
2001
Title
Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Holy Spirit Abbey Place Published: Conyers, Georgia
Publisher
Our Lady of Holy Spirit Abbey
Number of Pages
52
Edition
Fist Holy Spirit Abbey soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Holy Spirit Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U