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Record Number
101
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
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
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
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
91
Reference Type
Book
Year
1965
Title
The Way of Chuang Tzu Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
159
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
83
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
297
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
74
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Zen and the Birds of Appetite Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
141
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
75
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Zen and the Birds of Appetite Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
141
Edition
Third hard cover printing. Short Title: Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Notes
Cloth; this item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Record Number
61
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
The Behavior of Titans Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
106
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Behavior of Titans
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
53
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
146
Edition
First hard cover printing. Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; large cloth edition, Latin cross on front cover, printing errors noted on p. 24 & 30 and on dust jacket.
Record Number
54
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
146
Edition
Reprint large size blue cloth edition Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; large size blue cloth with Latin cross on cover, printing errors noted on page 24 & 30.
Record Number
52
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
146
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Red cloth and dust jacket.
Reprint Edition
Smaller size without cross
Record Number
39
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1960
Title
The Wisdom of the Desert Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
81
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Wisdom of the Desert
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
T
Record Number
42
Reference Type
Book
Picture
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
21
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
191
Edition
Revised hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Brown cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
22
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
201
Edition
Fifth printing Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth.
Record Number
17
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
201
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
16
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
201
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
15
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
201
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
U
Record Number
2489
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation / signed Place Published: Norfolk, CT
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First cloth signed limited edition - 1/100 Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket in slip case; limited edition 1/100 and signed by Merton.
Label
NLSU
Record Number
1085
Reference Type
Book
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
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
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
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
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
434
Reference Type
Book
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
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
408
Reference Type
Book
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
405
Reference Type
Book
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
2522
Reference Type
Book
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
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
2076
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Zen and the Birds of Appetite Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
141
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2077
Reference Type
Book
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
2042
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Szabo, Lynn R.
Year
2005
Title
In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
253
Edition
First soft cover edition - signed. Short Title: In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover; this item is inscribed and signed by the author.
Label
Y
Record Number
2001
Reference Type
Book
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 with gold and silver design on off-white dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton, "for Paul K T Sih (?) a cordial remembrance of your visit to Gethsemani - in xt Thomas Merton".
Label
S
Record Number
2179
Reference Type
Book
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
2174
Reference Type
Book
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
2132
Reference Type
Book
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
1811
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
146
Edition
First hard cover edition (subsequent printing). Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Oversized red cloth; with Latin cross on front of boards but no errata inside book.
Record Number
1794
Reference Type
Book
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
1763
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Laughlin, James
Year
1969
Title
Plessy vs. Ferguson: Theme and Variations
Volume
#21
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Plessy vs. Ferguson: Theme and Variations
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
201 - 203
Book Title
New Directions in Prose and Poetry - #21 Place Published: New York
Record Number
1761
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
The Tears of the Blind Lions Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
32
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Tears of the Blind Lions
Notes
Light blue cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
1757
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Laughlin, James
Year
1964
Title
The Early Legend; Atlas Watches Everything; A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann.
Volume
18
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Early Legend; Atlas Watches Everything; A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; first appearance of these poems in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
1-18
Book Title
New Directions in Prose and Poetry - #18 Place Published: New York
Record Number
1729
Reference Type
Book
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; this book is inscribed and signed by James Laughlin, renowned publisher of New Directions.
Label
Y
Record Number
1731
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
297
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Cloth with gold and silver design on off-white dust jacket.
Record Number
1701
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
191
Edition
Revised hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
White cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2440
Reference Type
Book
Year
1953
Title
Bread in the Wilderness Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
146 pages. Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness
Notes
Cloth in slipcase; privately re-bound in green leather.
Label
N
Record Number
2301
Reference Type
Book
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
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