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Record Number
365
Reference Type
Book
Year
1993
Title
Swimming in the Sun: Discover the Lord's Prayer with Francis of Assisi and Thomas Merton Place Published: Cincinnati, Ohio
Publisher
St. Anthony Messenger Press
Number of Pages
216
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Swimming in the Sun: Discover the Lord's Prayer with Francis of Assisi and Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
B
Record Number
416
Reference Type
Book
Year
1981
Title
Thomas Merton: Monk With a Mission
Publisher
St. Anthony Messenger Press
Number of Pages
44
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton: Monk With a Mission
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
B
Series Title
The Young Peoples Library of Famous American Catholics Place Published: Cincinnati, Ohio
Record Number
1695
Reference Type
Audiovisual Material
Year
2007
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher
St. Anthony Messenger Press Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Seven compact discs.
Label
V
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
2523
Reference Type
Book
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 was the precurser to the Cistern Life pamphlet series.
Label
N
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
1044
Reference Type
Book
Year
1997
Title
Hermits / The Insights of Solitude Place Published: New York
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Number of Pages
240
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Hermits / The Insights of Solitude
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; with sections on Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, Henri David Thoreau, Charles de Foucauld and Ramakrishna.
Label
B
Record Number
387
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1948
Title
What is Contemplation? Place Published: Notre Dame, Indiana
Publisher
St. Mary's College, Holy Cross
Number of Pages
25
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: What is Contemplation?
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
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
513
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
The Unquiet Conscience Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Number of Pages
4
Edition
First soft cover limited edition booklet.
Notes
Soft cover; laid in is a 1966 Christmas greeting from the Hammers with poem by Merton; limited edition - 1 of 50.
Label
TDL
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: The Unquiet Conscience
Record Number
955
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox-Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limitied edition - #81/100 Short Title: The Ox-Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Cloth with no dust jacket as issued; limited to 100 copies and is one of the exceptional publications where Merton and Victor Hammer's Stamperia Del Santuccio colaborated (reference David Semon collection).
Label
NUDL
Record Number
954
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Kentucky
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Number of Pages
30
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - #34/50. Short Title: What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; Opus XV; #34 of 50 numbered copies printed in red and black on Japnnese Hosho paper in in Hammer's American Uncial. The elaborate dust jacket has text printed in Latin with a two- color, 9-line, initial letter 'E' cut in brass by Victor Hammer. "Victor Hammer Artist and Printer" p. 147.
Label
ULDS
Record Number
737
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
Cassiodorus / of Scribes Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - 1/50 - Opus XIV / Number 4 - L
Notes
Cloth (without dust jacket as issued); limited to 50 copies (Opus XIV / Number 4 - L) by Victor Hammer printed in red, black and blue American uncial type on Magnani paper; engraved initial letter by Victor Hammer. It is supposed that Merton supervised the translation as he was at Gethsemani the same time as Augustine Wolff and also through his relationship with Victor Hammer and interest in Cassiodorus - he translated "A Prayer of Cassiodorus" in 1967 with Stanbrook Abbey Press.
Label
DL
Translator
Augustine Wolff, (supervised by Thomas Merton) Short Title: Cassiodorus / of Scribes
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
2600
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1956
Title
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
This is a prayer printed on one sheet, French-folded, to make four printable pages (8 total).
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (1 of 4) Short Title: Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Notes
Cloth with "Thomas Merton" printed on cover. Colophon indicates permission for printing granted in 1956. OCLC/Worldcat locates only two confirmed copies. 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 copy is likely 1 of the 4 kept by Hammer. It was bound by Carolyn Hammer bound in the late 1990s before the printing of Four French Poems. "I remember several unbound things from The Anvil Press and the Stamperia del Santuccio being cased one way or another in the late 1990s. Several different papers were used, but every book had the same material on the spines, as on your copy." (Paul Holbrook) 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
NUDL
Record Number
1547
Reference Type
Book
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 and dust jacket; signed by Merton; limited edition - Opus 17, # 41/69. On the dust jacket (magnani paper) there is printed a passage from Proverbs beginning with a two-color initial letter "S" cut from brass by Victor Hammer. The Engish translation of this Latin passage is written interlinear in red. This copy came from the collection of the art historian Ulrich Middeldorf, who was a friend of the Hammers and wrote about Victor Hammer's artwork on numerous occasions, including a contribution to Carolyn Hammer's 1981 biography of her husband.
Label
DSL
Record Number
2180
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1949
Title
Letter Press Christmas Card
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Notes
Folded letter press Christmas card featuring the Apostles and a quote from Romans.
Label
ND
Date
Christmas 1949
Type of Work
Christmas card Short Title: Letter Press Christmas Card
Record Number
2176
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - #27/50. Short Title: What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; Opus XV; #27 of 50 numbered copies printed in red and black on Japanese Hosho paper in in Hammer's American Uncial. The elaborate dust jacket has text printed in Latin with a two- color, 9-line, initial letter 'E' cut in brass by Victor Hammer. "Victor Hammer Artist and Printer" p. 147. Prospectus laid in.
Label
NUSDL
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
2365
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I To do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the collection in Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
35 pages
Edition
First private limited edition printing (#4/50) - signed by Merton. Short Title: What Ought I To do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the collection in Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth in dust jacket; limited edition - copy no. 4 of 50. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black. Signed by Thomas Merton on the free endpaper.
Label
NULSD
Record Number
2366
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio (Victor Hammer)
Edition
First limited private printing - #77/100. Short Title: The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued; chocolate paper over boards; limited edition - copy no. 77 of 100. Issued as Broadside II. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black and blue.
Label
NLUD
Record Number
2507
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio (Victor Hammer)
Number of Pages
Two folded, unbound 11x17 sheets - 8 pages in all.
Edition
First limited edition printing - #5/100 Short Title: The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Variant. Two folded sheets (11x17); unbound but laid into a cloth, custom fitted, latched case. Issued as Broadside II. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black and blue. "Victor knew many binders, and it could be that he gave them an unbound copy to case/bind as they wanted. Since its such a low number, I would suspect that might be the case." (PH)
Label
NUDL
Record Number
2370
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Solitary Life / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccion
Number of Pages
21 pages
Edition
First limited edition - signed, #44/60. Short Title: The Solitary Life / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket. Opus 16 - copy #44 of only 60 copies, signed by Merton. 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
NSDL
Record Number
1186
Reference Type
Edited Book
Picture
Editor
Carolyn R. Hammer, (including essay by Merton )
Year
1988
Title
Victor Hammer / An Artist's Testament Place Published: Verona
Publisher
Stamperia Valdonega (for The Anvil Press)
Number of Pages
305
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (in slip case) / 1 of 200. Short Title: Victor Hammer / An Artist's Testament
Notes
Cloth in slip case; designed and printed in Dante types by Martino Mardersteig of Stamperia Valdonega, Verona for The Anvil Press. This item is a compilation of Victor Hammer's writings interspersed with a number of essays including one by Thomas Merton titiled, "A World of Spiritual Imagery" (1965) on pages 193-195. Laid in is what appears to a prospectus sheet for this item by The Anvil Press.
Label
LUD
Record Number
738
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus [Prospectus] Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
4
Edition
First soft cover prospectus edition. Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus [Prospectus]
Notes
Soft cover; prospectus of the limited edition book; tall 8vo, 4 page printed in 2 colors with specimen page of the preface.
Label
U
Record Number
542
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First soft cover edition - variant binding, 1/60.
Notes
Soft cover; with Latin text printed in black, and the English translation by Thomas Merton printed in red, set in Monotype Spectrum on Barcham Green August Badger grey handmade paper. This is one of the last 60 copies (of 300) bound in overlapping sewn and glued printed red card covers (limitation information noted by Woodbridge Rare Books - this info gathered from a hand-written note by Dame Hildelith). There is a note attached which reads, "variant binding, without colophon leaf, c. (copyright) notice tipped in". Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c.490-c.585) historian, statesman and monk, founded two monasteries - Vivarium and Castellum. The special duty was the acquisition of knowledge, both sacred and profane. He also collected and emended valuable mss., which his monks were instructed to copy.
Label
LR
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus
Record Number
402
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1963
Title
The Solitary Life Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
11
Edition
First soft cover edition ("last one hundred copies").
Notes
Soft cover pamphlet; one of three variant bindings of this item - this one being the variant green binding and noted in the colophon as one of the "last one hundred copies" printed. This pamphlet is Merton's translation from the Latin original of a letter written 'at the Grand Chartreuse in the last days of his Priorate about 1135' to an unknown friend by Guigo I (circa 1083-1136), also known as Guigo the Carthusian, a Carthusian monk and the 5th prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in the Chartreuse Mountains, north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (Isere), France. 'There is an inimitable naked power in the austere style of Guigo the Carthusian from which every suggestion of ornament, indeed every useless word is ruthlessly excluded,' says Merton. 'The extraordinary compression of this thought and language convey something of the fervor, the passionate seriousness of this saint and genius, a pure exemplar of the Carthusian spirit and certainly the greatest Carthusian writer.' (Flamingo Books)
Label
L
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: The Solitary Life
Record Number
2446
Reference Type
Book
Year
1963
Title
The Solitary Life Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
11
Edition
First soft cover edition, variant binding. Short Title: The Solitary Life
Notes
Soft cover pamphlet; one of three variant bindings of this item - this one having an extra front and end free end page and also a cover slightly larger in size than the others and a pasted-on title stamp with the second and third words printed in red. This pamphlet is Merton's translation from the Latin original of a letter written 'at the Grand Chartreuse in the last days of his Priorate about 1135' to an unknown friend by Guigo I (circa 1083-1136), also known as Guigo the Carthusian, a Carthusian monk and the 5th prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in the Chartreuse Mountains, north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (Isere), France. 'There is an inimitable naked power in the austere style of Guigo the Carthusian from which every suggestion of ornament, indeed every useless word is ruthlessly excluded,' says Merton. 'The extraordinary compression of this thought and language convey something of the fervor, the passionate seriousness of this saint and genius, a pure exemplar of the Carthusian spirit and certainly the greatest Carthusian writer.' (Flamingo Books)
Record Number
401
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1963
Title
The Solitary Life Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
11
Edition
First soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover pamphlet; one of three variant bindings of this item - this one being the one descibed in Dell"Isola (D6). This pamphlet is Merton's translation from the Latin original of a letter written 'at the Grand Chartreuse in the last days of his Priorate about 1135' to an unknown friend by Guigo I (circa 1083-1136), also known as Guigo the Carthusian, a Carthusian monk and the 5th prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in the Chartreuse Mountains, north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (Isere), France. 'There is an inimitable naked power in the austere style of Guigo the Carthusian from which every suggestion of ornament, indeed every useless word is ruthlessly excluded,' says Merton. 'The extraordinary compression of this thought and language convey something of the fervor, the passionate seriousness of this saint and genius, a pure exemplar of the Carthusian spirit and certainly the greatest Carthusian writer.' (Flamingo Books)
Label
U
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: The Solitary Life
Record Number
710
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (1 of 300). Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued). Quarter-bound by George Percival in white vellum with blue, brown and gawn Cockerell marbled paper covered boards. The setting of the text is designed to encourage the reading of the Latin original which is printed in black on the rectos. The facing English translation is printed in red on the versos. Limited edition - 1 of 300.
Label
L
Record Number
2327
Reference Type
Book
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Edition
Soft cover - variant binding, 1/60.
Notes
Soft cover; with Latin text printed in black, and the English translation by Thomas Merton printed in red, set in Monotype Spectrum on Barcham Green August Badger grey handmade paper. This is one of the last 60 copies (of 300) bound in overlapping sewn and glued printed red card covers (limitation information noted by Woodbridge Rare Books - this info gathered from a hand-written note by Dame Hildelith). There is a note attached which reads, "variant binding, without colophon leaf, c. (copyright) notice tipped in". Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c.490-c.585) historian, statesman and monk, founded two monasteries - Vivarium and Castellum. The special duty was the acquisition of knowledge, both sacred and profane. He also collected and emended valuable mss., which his monks were instructed to copy.
Label
NLR
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus
Record Number
2510
Reference Type
Artwork
Year
1965 (from Butcher C14)
Title
He Abideth / From a XIV Century Manuscript Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Notes
Soft cover. A lovely small illuminated folder from Stanbrook Abbey Press, with both a calligraphic title 'HE' and a green and gold flower design by Margaret Adams; printed in 20-point Cancelleresca Bastarda in black on W S Hodgkinson handmade paper, mounted in overlapping blue card covers with the title on the front cover and the colophon printed in black on the back cover. Relationship of this printing to Thomas Merton: Dame Marcella van Bruyn (a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in England) first contacted Merton through the encouragement of Jacques Maritain. Stanbrook Press published poems of Raïssa Maritain as well as some of Merton's works, including his translations of a prayer of Cassiodorus and a letter by Guigo the Carthusian. Merton provided this text to Stanbrook Abbey Press and cited it was "From a fourteenth century manuscript". Sr. Margaret Truran of Stanbrook notes, "The text is hand-set by the Stanbrook Abbey Press in Jan van Krimpen’s font 'Romulus Cancelleresca Bastarda', a trademark of the Press. The calligraphic capitals H and E are done by Margaret Adams." Related Information: See published letters from Merton to van Bruyn in The School of Charity, pp. 160-161, 182-183, 190-191, 205-206, 249-250, 270-271, 284-285, 298-300, 302, and 311-312. (Merton info retireved from the Thomas Merton Centre website - http://merton.org/). Text: "He abideth patiently He forgiveth easily He understandeth mercifully He forgetteth utterly" Only 2 confirmed WorldCat listings.
Label
NUA
Type of Work
Illuminated folder - first edition illuminated folder. Short Title: He Abideth / From a XIV Century Manuscript
Record Number
1889
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (1 of 300). Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued). Quarter-bound by George Percival in white vellum with blue, brown and gawn Cockerell marbled paper covered boards. The setting of the text is designed to encourage the reading of the Latin original which is printed in black on the rectos. The facing English translation is printed in red on the versos. Limited edition - 1 of 300.
Label
L
Record Number
1700
Reference Type
Book
Year
1963
Title
The Solitary Life Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
11
Edition
First soft cover edition ("last one hundred copies").
Notes
Soft cover pamphlet; one of three variant bindings of this item - this one being the variant green binding and noted in the colophon as one of the "last one hundred copies" printed. This pamphlet is Merton's translation from the Latin original of a letter written 'at the Grand Chartreuse in the last days of his Priorate about 1135' to an unknown friend by Guigo I (circa 1083-1136), also known as Guigo the Carthusian, a Carthusian monk and the 5th prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in the Chartreuse Mountains, north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (Isere), France. 'There is an inimitable naked power in the austere style of Guigo the Carthusian from which every suggestion of ornament, indeed every useless word is ruthlessly excluded,' says Merton. 'The extraordinary compression of this thought and language convey something of the fervor, the passionate seriousness of this saint and genius, a pure exemplar of the Carthusian spirit and certainly the greatest Carthusian writer.' (Flamingo Books)
Label
L
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: The Solitary Life
Record Number
1699
Reference Type
Book
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First soft cover edition - variant binding, 1/60.
Notes
Soft cover; with Latin text printed in black, and the English translation by Thomas Merton printed in red, set in Monotype Spectrum on Barcham Green August Badger grey handmade paper. This is one of the last 60 copies (of 300) bound in overlapping sewn and glued printed red card covers (limitation information noted by Woodbridge Rare Books - this info gathered from a hand-written note by Dame Hildelith). There is a note attached which reads, "variant binding, without colophon leaf, c. (copyright) notice tipped in". Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c.490-c.585) historian, statesman and monk, founded two monasteries - Vivarium and Castellum. The special duty was the acquisition of knowledge, both sacred and profane. He also collected and emended valuable mss., which his monks were instructed to copy.
Label
ULR
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus
Record Number
2143
Reference Type
Book
Year
1967
Title
A Prayer of Cassiodorus Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press
Number of Pages
24
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (1 of 300). Short Title: A Prayer of Cassiodorus
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued). Quarter-bound by George Percival in white vellum with blue, brown and gawn Cockerell marbled paper covered boards. The setting of the text is designed to encourage the reading of the Latin original which is printed in black on the rectos. The facing English translation is printed in red on the versos. Limited edition - 1 of 300. Laid in is a prospectus and specimen page of the preface for the book and a National Book League exhibition slip.
Label
L
Record Number
2497
Reference Type
Artwork
Year
1965 (from Butcher C14)
Title
He Abideth / From a XIV Century Manuscript Place Published: Worcester
Publisher
Stanbrook Abbey Press Description: single leaf
Edition
First edition illuminated folder.
Notes
Soft cover. A lovely small illuminated folder from Stanbrook Abbey Press, with both a calligraphic title 'HE' and a green and gold flower design by Margaret Adams; printed in 20-point Cancelleresca Bastarda in black on W S Hodgkinson handmade paper, mounted in overlapping blue card covers with the title on the front cover and the colophon printed in black on the back cover. Relationship of this printing to Thomas Merton: Dame Marcella van Bruyn (a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in England) first contacted Merton through the encouragement of Jacques Maritain. Stanbrook Press published poems of Raïssa Maritain as well as some of Merton's works, including his translations of a prayer of Cassiodorus and a letter by Guigo the Carthusian. Merton provided this text to Stanbrook Abbey Press and cited it was "From a fourteenth century manuscript". Sr. Margaret Truran of Stanbrook notes, "The text is hand-set by the Stanbrook Abbey Press in Jan van Krimpen’s font 'Romulus Cancelleresca Bastarda', a trademark of the Press. The calligraphic capitals H and E are done by Margaret Adams." Related Information: See published letters from Merton to van Bruyn in The School of Charity, pp. 160-161, 182-183, 190-191, 205-206, 249-250, 270-271, 284-285, 298-300, 302, and 311-312. (Merton info retireved from the Thomas Merton Centre website - http://merton.org/). Text: "He abideth patiently He forgiveth easily He understandeth mercifully He forgetteth utterly" Only 2 confirmed WorldCat listings.
Label
NUA
Type of Work
Illuminated folder Short Title: He Abideth / From a XIV Century Manuscript
Record Number
2279
Reference Type
Book
Year
1998
Title
Thomas Merton's American Prophecy - signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Number of Pages
210
Edition
First soft cover edition - signed Short Title: Thomas Merton's American Prophecy - signed
Notes
Soft cover; signed by Inchausti, ``Best wishes, R. L. Inchausti``.
Label
NY
Record Number
350
Reference Type
Book
Year
1998
Title
Thomas Merton's American Prophecy - signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Number of Pages
210
Edition
First soft cover edition - signed. Short Title: Thomas Merton's American Prophecy - signed
Notes
Soft cover, this item is inscribed and signed by the author.
Label
BY
Record Number
362
Reference Type
Book
Year
1998
Title
Heretic Blood Place Published: Toronto
Publisher
Stoddard
Number of Pages
306
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Heretic Blood
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
B
Record Number
2475
Reference Type
Book
Year
1998
Title
Heretic Blood / The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton - signed Place Published: Toronto
Publisher
Stoddart
Number of Pages
306 pages
Edition
First hard cover edition - signed Short Title: Heretic Blood / The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton - signed
Notes
Cloth, signed by Michael Higgins.
Label
NYB
Record Number
668
Reference Type
Book
Year
1998
Title
Heretic Blood Place Published: Toronto
Publisher
Stoddart
Number of Pages
306
Edition
First hard cover signed edition. Short Title: Heretic Blood
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item is signed by the author and has laid in two articles relating to the book and Thomas Merton.
Label
BY
Record Number
2326
Reference Type
Book
Year
2011
Title
The Making of a Saint / A Psychological Study of the Life of Thomas Merton Place Published: Durham, CT
Publisher
Strategic Book Club
Number of Pages
128
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Making of a Saint / A Psychological Study of the Life of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
NB
Record Number
1491
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
Obras Completas / Spanish edition Place Published: Buenos Aires
Publisher
Sudamericana
Number of Pages
1693
Edition
First leather bound stiff soft cover Spanish edition.
Notes
Stiff leather bound soft cover; Spanish translation of 7 Merton books: The Seven Storey Mountain, Seeds of Contemplation, Exile Ends in Glory, What are these Wounds, Bread in the Wilderness and a composite of A Balanced Life of Prayer, Poetry and the Contemplative Life, Self-Denial and the Christian, What is Contemplation?.
Label
7UF
Translator
etc., Aquilino Tur Short Title: Obras Completas / Spanish edition
Record Number
2026
Reference Type
Book
Year
1991
Title
Hetlepcsos Hegy / Hungarian language translation of The Seven Story Mountain Place Published: Budapest
Publisher
Szent Istvan Tarsulat
Number of Pages
403 pages.
Edition
First Hungarian soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
F7
Translator
Laszlo, Lukacs Short Title: Hetlepcsos Hegy / Hungarian language translation of The Seven Story Mountain
Record Number
1470
Reference Type
Book
Year
1974
Title
The Soul of the Apostolate Place Published: Rockford, IL
Publisher
Tan Books & Publishers
Number of Pages
298
Edition
140th thousand soft cover edition. Second US soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover.
Translator
A monk of Our Lady of Gethsemani, (Thomas Merton) Short Title: The Soul of the Apostolate
Record Number
1543
Reference Type
Book
Year
1974
Title
The Soul of the Apostolate Place Published: Rockford, IL
Publisher
Tan Books & Publishers
Number of Pages
298
Edition
140th thousand soft cover edition. Second US soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover.
Translator
A monk of Our Lady of Gethsemani, (Thomas Merton) Short Title: The Soul of the Apostolate
Record Number
288
Reference Type
Book
Year
1974
Title
The Soul of the Apostolate Place Published: Rockford, IL
Publisher
Tan Books & Publishers
Number of Pages
298
Edition
140th thousand soft cover edition. Second US soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover.
Translator
A monk of Our Lady of Gethsemani, (Thomas Merton) Short Title: The Soul of the Apostolate
Record Number
1927
Reference Type
Book
Year
2002
Title
Christian Contemplation and Chinese Zen-Taoism / A Study of Thomas Merton's Writings Place Published: Hong Kong
Publisher
Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre
Number of Pages
247
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Christian Contemplation and Chinese Zen-Taoism / A Study of Thomas Merton's Writings
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
B