Collection
Pictured
192 records, showing 50 per page
Record Number
706
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / Saint Joseph's Abbey Place Published: Spencer, Massachusetts
Publisher
Saint Joseph's Abbey
Edition
First Saint Joseph's Abbey soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Saint Joseph's Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
703
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1969
Title
The Solitary Life Collection Title: Cistercian Studies Library/Archive: Cistercian Studies. Published in collaboration with Collectanea Cisterciensia.
Notes
Soft cover; an offprint from Cistercian Studies. This item is a transcript of a tape-recording made for the Savannah Carmel in September, 1967.
Label
TM
Pages
Original pagination has been maintained (pg. 213-217).
Type of Work
First separate issue, an offprint from Cistercian Studies. Short Title: The Solitary Life
Record Number
689
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1953
Title
Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard / Signed Place Published: France (and Brazil)
Publisher
Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium
Number of Pages
38
Edition
First soft cover edition - Signed by Merton. Short Title: Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard / Signed
Notes
Soft cover; not published in the US as a book but translated as "Martha, Mary and Lazarus" in France; this is an offprint of the total article. It is inscribed and signed, "To Father Barnabas Mary with kind regards - in Jesus xt - Fr. Louis". The booklet names Louis Merton as author. The booklet was not printed on acid free paper, therefore, the signed intro page and blue cover has been deacidified and sealed in plastic.
Label
S
Record Number
691
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1976
Title
Ishi Means Man Place Published: Greensboro, North Carolina
Publisher
Unicorn Press
Number of Pages
71
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Ishi Means Man
Notes
Cloth without dust wrapper (as issued); Unicorn Keepsake Series Volume 8. Brick and beige boards with original Rita Cobrin woodblock tipped-in as frontispiece.
Label
U
Record Number
678
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1949
Title
Flight Into Egypt Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher
Wesley Webster
Number of Pages
5
Edition
First separate sheet music soft cover edition. Short Title: Flight Into Egypt
Notes
Soft cover with pictorial wrappers; words by Thomas Merton, music by Emmet Pendleton.
Label
U3
Record Number
664
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1974
Title
Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey Place Published: Lafayette, Oregon
Publisher
Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey
Edition
First Guadalupe Abbey soft cover edition. Short Title: Cistercian Life / Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
6U
Record Number
548
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
547
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
546
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
Nativity kerygma Place Published: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Publisher
North Central Publishing Company
Edition
First hard cover limited edition. Tall narrow format (16 x 6"). Short Title: Nativity kerygma
Notes
Cloth no dust jacket (as issued); inscribed by Frank Kacmaricik (who did the art work and layout of this book), "To Waring Jones, With best wishes, Frank kacmarcik winter 1958". Limited edition - # 30/500.
Label
YL
Record Number
544
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1973
Title
Pasternak / Merton: Six Letters Place Published: Lexington, KY
Publisher
King Library
Number of Pages
28
Edition
First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: Pasternak / Merton: Six Letters
Notes
Cloth no dust jacket (as issued); limited edition - # 41/150.
Label
L
Record Number
543
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
Prometheus / A Meditation Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Privately printed at the Margaret King Library Press - University of Kentucky
Edition
First hard cover limited edition presentation copy. Short Title: Prometheus / A Meditation
Notes
Hard cover no dust jacket (as issued); limited edition - 1 of 150. Tipped in is a hand written note, "Jim, Nancy, Carolyn for LST" - this is a presentation copy for "LST" from the printers of this item Carolyn Hammer, Nancy Chambers, and Jim Gribble (each printer signed his/her own name in the inscription). This presentation copy has a variant marbled light grey boards (varies from the regular brown issued boards). From the University of Kentucky web site "Set in 14 point American Uncial (Stempel), leaded, Hosho paper. Cased in boards covered with plum Moriki paper, printed label on spine. Bound by Boxwood Binders (Lucy Crump). Copies not numbered. The initials "h.c.g." in the colophon refer to the printers: Carolyn Reading Hammer, Nancy Chambers (Mrs. John Lair), and James Gribble. The Margaret I. King Library Press imprint was used only twice before being shortened to The King Library Press.". This item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label
LYU
Record Number
541
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation / signed Place Published: Norfolk, CT
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
201
Edition
First hard cover, signed, limited edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation / signed
Notes
Cloth in dust jacket in slip case; signed by Merton; limited edition - 1 of 100.
Label
SL
Record Number
540
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1960
Title
The Solitary Life / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Number of Pages
21
Edition
First hard cover, signed, limited edition - #16/60. Short Title: The Solitary Life / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; limited edition - opus 16, copy #16/60. Handprinted in red and black by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type; the title-page is set in his Andromaque typeface, and was the first use of that type.
Label
DSL
Record Number
539
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Hagia Sophia / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First hard cover, signed, limited edition. Short Title: Hagia Sophia / signed
Notes
Cloth; signed by Merton; limited edition - Opus 17, # 28/69. This item has a variant cloth binding while is internally unchanged. Laid in is a proof of an engraving from the Victor Hammer collection titled, "Hagia Sophia and the Young Christ" (unfinished state). This engraving looks to be a proof for the 1978 edition of this item that includes this frontispiece engraving. This item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label
DSLA
Record Number
527
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Selections on Prayer / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label
M
Date
Lent
Pages
53 pages, bound in cirlox comb-style binding and green covers.
Type of Work
Mimeographed collection of various writers' thoughts on prayer, compiled for the choir novitiate. Short Title: Selections on Prayer / mimeograph
Record Number
528
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1963
Title
Examination of Conscience and Coversatio Morum / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal library of Jim Forest and was given to him by Merton. It has a few pen corrections in text made by Merton himself (this fact confirmed by Jim Forest).
Label
YM
Date
September
Pages
25
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Examination of Conscience and Coversatio Morum / mimeograph
Record Number
529
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
Post 1961 and prior to 1967
Title
An Introduction to the English Mystics / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal library of Jim forest and was given to him by Merton.
Label
M
Pages
25
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: An Introduction to the English Mystics / mimeograph
Record Number
530
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Peace in the Post Christian Era / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph
Label
M
Pages
138
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Peace in the Post Christian Era / mimeograph
Record Number
526
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1968
Title
Monks Pond #4 / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
4th of 4 soft cover mimeographs; fine condition and limited to approx 150 copies and distributed among friends.
Label
M
Date
Winter
Pages
126
Type of Work
Partly printed, partly mimeographed, with photographic illustrations. Collection of material devoted to poetry and some unusual prose. Short Title: Monks Pond #4 / mimeograph
Record Number
525
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1968
Title
Monks Pond #3 / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
3rd of 4 soft cover mimeographs; fine condition and limited to approx. 150 copies and distributed among friends.
Label
M
Date
Fall
Pages
81
Type of Work
Partly printed, partly mimeographed, with photographic illustrations. Collection of material devoted to poetry and some unusual prose. Short Title: Monks Pond #3 / mimeograph
Record Number
522
Reference Type
Journal Article
Picture
Year
1967
Title
The Drawings of Thomas Merton: Notes by Thomas Merton
Journal
Voyages: A National Literary Magazine
Volume
1
Notes
Includes photos of 8 Merton drawings (one of which is in this collection). Also included is article "A Note (and Poem) by Mark Van Doren on Thomas Merton.
Label
PA
Date
Fall Short Title: The Drawings of Thomas Merton: Notes by Thomas Merton
Pages
53-62
Record Number
523
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1968
Title
Monks Pond #1 / mimeograph, signed Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
1st of 4 soft cover mimeographs; fine condition and signed by Merton; limited to approx. 150 copies and mostly spread among friends.
Label
SM
Date
Spring
Pages
57
Type of Work
Partly printed, partly mimeographed, with photographic illustrations. Collection of material devoted to poetry and some unusual prose. Short Title: Monks Pond #1 / mimeograph, signed
Record Number
524
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1968
Title
Monks Pond #2 / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
2nd of 4 soft cover mimeographs; fine condition and limited to approx. 150 copies and distributed among friends.
Label
M
Date
Summer
Pages
36
Type of Work
Partly printed, partly mimeographed, with photographic illustrations. Collection of material devoted to poetry and some unusual prose. Short Title: Monks Pond #2 / mimeograph
Record Number
520
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
519
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Picture
Year
?
Title
Green Island Place Published: Chesire, England
Publisher
David Kilburn
Notes
soft cover Ink drawing and "Dramas of the Evening" by Merton.
Label
PA
Pages
1 page, twice folded into the centre. Short Title: Green Island
Record Number
517
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1955
Title
The Tower of Babel Place Published: New York
Publisher
Jubilee
Edition
Offprint soft cover from Jubilee. Short Title: The Tower of Babel
Notes
Offprint soft cover; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of Jim Forest.
Label
JM
Record Number
514
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Two Articles by Thomas Merton / The Root of war; Red or Dead: The Anatomy of a Cliche Place Published: New York
Publisher
Fellowship Publications
Number of Pages
11
Edition
First Fellowship reprint soft cover edition. Short Title: Two Articles by Thomas Merton / The Root of war; Red or Dead: The Anatomy of a Cliche
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
507
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1957
Title
The Tower of Babel / signed Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover, numbered, signed, limited edition. Short Title: The Tower of Babel / signed
Notes
Cloth in slip case; signed by Merton and contains woodcuts by the famed German artist Gerhard Marcks; limited edition - 231/250.
Label
SL
Record Number
510
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1966
Title
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Number of Pages
328
Edition
First hard cover edition. Signed by Merton. Short Title: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton, "For Archbishop Pocock congratulations on the congress! Thomas Merton
Label
S
Record Number
511
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
512
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
425
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1965
Title
Monastic Life at Gethsemani Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Monastic Life at Gethsemani
Notes
Soft cover; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of Jim Forest.
Label
U
Record Number
427
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1995
Title
The Harmonies of Excess Place Published: Lexington, Kentucky
Publisher
The Literary Renaissance
Edition
First soft cover special numbered limited edition - # 97/100. Short Title: The Harmonies of Excess
Notes
Soft cover. From Colophon - "The Harmonies of Excess first appeared in The Sewanee Review LXXV (July-September 1967). The poem later appeared in New Directions' Eighteen Poems in 1985. One hundred numbered copies are sewn into Canson Vert Amande wrappers." Limited edition - # 97/100.
Label
L
Record Number
431
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1947
Title
Cistercian Contemplatives Place Published: New York
Publisher
Marbridge Printing Company, Inc.
Number of Pages
62
Edition
First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: Cistercian Contemplatives
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); limited edition - one of 10000.
Label
L
Record Number
432
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
435
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
436
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
437
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
412
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Loretto and Gethsemani Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First soft cover edition in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Congregation of The Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross. Short Title: Loretto and Gethsemani
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
409
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1967
Title
Blessed Are the Meek Place Published: New York
Publisher
Catholic Peace Fellowship
Edition
First soft cover printing. Short Title: Blessed Are the Meek
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
410
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1956
Title
Praying the Psalms Place Published: Collegeville, Minnesota
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Number of Pages
32
Edition
First soft cover edition with drawings by Grailville Art Center. Short Title: Praying the Psalms
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
411
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
404
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1971
Title
The Zen Revival Place Published: London
Publisher
The Buddhist Society
Number of Pages
20
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Zen Revival
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
397
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1957
Title
Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
71
Edition
First British soft cover edition. Short Title: Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Series Title
Paternoster series: #15A Place Published: London
Record Number
391
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1967
Title
Monastery of Christ in the Desert Place Published: Abiquiu, New Mexico
Publisher
Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
392
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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 is a precurser to the Cistercian Life pamphlet series.
Label
6U
Record Number
393
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
Spiritual Direction and Meditation / A Paraclete Book
Publisher
Anthony Clarke Books
Number of Pages
102
Edition
First British Paraclete Book soft cover edition. Short Title: Spiritual Direction and Meditation
Notes
Soft cover; edges stained red.
Label
U
Abstract
Soft cover.
Record Number
394
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1951
Title
A Balanced Life of Prayer Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
22
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: A Balanced Life of Prayer
Notes
Soft cover; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label
U
Record Number
395
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
What think you of Carmel? Place Published: Trappist, Kentucky
Publisher
The Abbey of Gethsemani
Number of Pages
11
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: What think you of Carmel?
Notes
Soft cover; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label
U
Record Number
396
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
U
Series Title
The Paternoster Series #7 Place Published: London