Selected Collection
Merton's Poetry Books
68 records, showing 50 per page
Record Number
400
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1969
Title
A Poem For Thomas Merton Place Published: Grand Central Station, New York
Publisher
Journeyman Books
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: A Poem For Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
UO
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
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
2185
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Wild Places
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent. This is the first publication of the article in a periodical. This issue includes an article by Dorothy Day.
Label
NO
Date
June Short Title: The Wild Places
Pages
Pages 4, 6
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
2087
Reference Type
Book
Year
1947
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse / signed Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Direction
Number of Pages
111
Edition
First hard cover printing. Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse / signed
Notes
Black cloth and dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton, "In Corde Jesu, F.M. Louis OCR". Merton signed some of his books with his Monastic name "Louis" and also used the blessing "In Corde Jesu" (In the heart of Jesus) and "OCR" (Order of Cistercians - reformed - research). He used a similar method of signing, for example, in the book, "Thomas Merton and James Laughlin - Selected Letters" (see page 38). A rare and interesting find, coming originally from the significant collection of a Merton collector.
Label
SUO
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
2512
Reference Type
Book Section
Year
1939
Title
Graduate School (poems) - signed
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Graduate School (poems) - signed
Notes
Blue cloth, no jacket as issued. Contains the first published work of Thomas Merton, written when he was a graduate student at Columbia. This book is signed on page v by Mark Van Doren, one of the selectors, (renowned English professor and poet, and professor/friend of Merton); also signed and inscribed by Sara Van Alstyne Allen (who went on to publish professionally in The New Yorker and Harper's) in 1964 on pages 5 and 9, where her poetry appears.
Label
NUYO1
Pages
60-67
Book Title
Columbia Poetry Place Published: New York
Record Number
2000
Reference Type
Book
Year
1947
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse (special full leather edition) Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Direction
Number of Pages
111
Edition
First special edition, leather bound hard cover printing Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse (special full leather edition)
Notes
Bound in full red leather with gilt decorations, raised hubs, gilt titles and colorful endpapers. This item is a special edition, up to now apparently unknown and uncatalogued.
Label
OU
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
1693
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher
Pax #16
Edition
First newsprint brodside edition. Short Title: Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb
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
UAO
Record Number
1684
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher
Pax #16
Edition
First newsprint brodside edition. Short Title: Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb
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
UAO
Record Number
1683
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb Place Published: New York
Publisher
Pax #16
Edition
First newsprint brodside edition. Short Title: Pax #16 / Original Child Bomb
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
UAO
Record Number
1640
Reference Type
Book
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; this item is a Review Copy with review slip from New Directions laid in.
Label
OR
Record Number
1577
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Cables to the Ace Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
60
Edition
First printing soft cover. Short Title: Cables to the Ace
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
1487
Reference Type
Book
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
2582
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Kelly, Paris Leary and Robert
Year
1965
Title
Seven Poems by Merton
Publisher
Anchor Books
Notes
Soft cover, anthology of poems. This item was an Ordination gift from Merton scholar Patricia Burton.
Label
NO
Pages
Pages 273-281. Short Title: Seven Poems by Merton
Book Title
A Contoversy of Poets Place Published: Garden City, NY
Record Number
1366
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; Merton's first book.
Label
O
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
1069
Reference Type
Book
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
SO
Record Number
1018
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
The Geography of Lograire Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
153
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Geography of Lograire
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
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
873
Reference Type
Book
Year
1980
Title
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
1048
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
2457
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
Poesie / limited edition Place Published: Brescia, Italy
Publisher
Morcelliana
Number of Pages
59
Edition
First limited edition - #425/1000
Notes
Soft cover in glassine jacket; selected poems in Italian.
Label
NFLO
Translator
Guidi., Translated and selected by Augusto Short Title: Poesie / limited edition
Record Number
2458
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
La Poesia E La Vita Contemplativa / Italian edition of "Poetry and the Contemplative Life" Place Published: Brescia
Publisher
Morcelliana
Number of Pages
31
Notes
Soft cover in glassine jacket.
Label
NOF
Translator
Guidi, Translated by Augusto Short Title: La Poesia E La Vita Contemplativa / Italian edition of "Poetry and the Contemplative Life
Record Number
2456
Reference Type
Book
Year
1995
Title
Veinte Poemas / limited edition Place Published: Segovia, Spain
Publisher
Instituto de Bachillerato, "Francisco Giner de los Rios
Number of Pages
65
Edition
1995 limited edition - #133/300 Short Title: Twenty poems selected and introduced by Jose Maria Valverde.
Notes
Soft cover; Spanish translation of twenty Merton poems.
Label
NLFO
Record Number
866
Reference Type
Book
Year
1980
Title
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
1048
Edition
Fifth soft cover edition. Short Title: The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
Record Number
790
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 and dust jacket.
Label
O
Record Number
740
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 and dust jacket.
Label
O
Record Number
665
Reference Type
Book
Year
1947
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Direction
Number of Pages
111
Edition
2nd hard cover printing. Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
O
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
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
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
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
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
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
265
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Cables to the Ace Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
60
Edition
First printing soft cover. Short Title: Cables to the Ace
Notes
Soft cover; review copy with slip by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
Label
RO
Record Number
244
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
The Geography of Lograire Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
153
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Geography of Lograire
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
O
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
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
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
126
Reference Type
Book
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
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
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