Selected Collection
Proof and Review Copies
44 records, showing 50 per page
Record Number
1698
Reference Type
Artwork
Year
1957
Title
Tower of Babel / signed unbound page proofs
Notes
Unbound untrimmed pages. Signed by the artist (Gerhard Marcks); these sheets make up all four of Gerhard Marcks's expressionistic wood engravings, as well as his wood-engraved title-page, for James Laughlin's 1957 edition of Thomas Merton's The Tower of Babel. The sheets may have been page proofs for this work. The illustrations are printed in black on two sizes of paper, one measuring 14 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches and the other approximately 12 by 9 inches. Gerhard Marcks was a German artist and sculptor who, in 1919, joined Walter Gropius at the Staatliches Bauhaus, where he was put in charge of the Bauhaus pottery in Dornburg. In the 1930s his artwork was denounced and confiscated by the Nazis, two of his pieces being shown in an exhibition of "Degenerate Art." But he continued to work, and in the 50s was the recipient of two prestigious German art awards. The Tower of Babel is considered among the most beautiful productions ever done by Laughlin's legendary New Directions publishing house.
Label
RUAY
Type of Work
Signed, unbound, untrimmed page proofs. Short Title: Tower of Babel / signed unbound page proofs
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
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
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
2584
Reference Type
Book
Year
2018
Title
The Monk's Record Player / Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966 Place Published: Grand Rapids, MI
Publisher
William Eerdmans Publishing Company
Number of Pages
235
Edition
Advanced copy / Uncorrected Proof Short Title: The Monk's Record Player / Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
RN
Record Number
934
Reference Type
Book
Year
1978
Title
Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti Letters Place Published: Kansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Sheed, Andrews and McMeel, Inc.
Number of Pages
116
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Catch of Anti Letters
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
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
884
Reference Type
Book
Year
1967
Title
Mystics and Zen Masters Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
303
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Mystics and Zen Masters
Notes
Soft cover spiralbound printed wrappers; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
194
Reference Type
Book
Year
1966
Title
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Place Published: New York
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Number of Pages
328
Edition
First hard cover review edition. Short Title: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; review copy with stamp inside front boards stating " With Compliments of - Doubleday & Company Inc."; the dust jacket of this edition lacks the "-from the Introduction" quote on the back of the dust jacket and is set up with a different font size.
Label
R
Record Number
882
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
The Way of Chuang Tzu Place Published: London
Publisher
Unwin Books
Number of Pages
159
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
1062
Reference Type
Book
Year
1955
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
233
Edition
Hollis & Carter uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
UR
Record Number
837
Reference Type
Book
Year
1998
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: New York San Diego London
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Number of Pages
468
Edition
Soft cover uncorrected proof of 50th anniversary edition. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
7R
Record Number
2593
Reference Type
Book
Year
1948
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain / Advance Review Copy Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Number of Pages
429 pages
Edition
Advance Review Copy with slip tipped in. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain / Advance Review Copy
Notes
Cloth; Advance Copy with slip tipped in. Stamped on the review slip is the release date as Oct 4, 1948 and the price of $3.00. There is no dust jacket but has origianl flaps of the dust jacket laid in with date stamped Sept 13, 1948 (presumeably the date received). Edition stated is "b-7-48" on colophon page.
Label
NUR
Record Number
110
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1977
Title
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
1046
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; laid in is a review slip "With compliments of the publisher".
Label
RO
Record Number
1639
Reference Type
Book
Year
1969
Title
My Argument with the Gestapo Place Published: New York
Publisher
Doubleday & Co., Inc.
Number of Pages
259
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: My Argument with the Gestapo
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item is a Review Copy with a letter laid in by Doubleday & Company, Inc with publication date July 3, 1969.
Label
R
Record Number
1638
Reference Type
Book
Year
1964
Title
Seeds of Destruction Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
328
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Seeds of Destruction
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this item is a Review Copy with a letter from the editor of Saturday Review (Rochelle Girson) to Mr. Pratt asking for a review of this book (January 4).
Label
R
Record Number
1637
Reference Type
Book
Year
1955
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Number of Pages
264
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; this copy is stamped "Review Copy" on the title page.
Label
R
Record Number
1661
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1963
Title
Chant to Be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces
Journal
Fellowship
Volume
Volume 20
Notes
Soft cover, this is among the first appearance of this poem in a periodical. This item came from the private library of John Beecher (1904-80), noted social protest poet and fine press publisher, whose poem "Conformity Means Death" also appears in this journal. Stapled to the front cover is a note presumeably from the publisher, indicating "July issue Fellowship / see page 12 / marked copy". On page 12 is a Beecher poem.
Label
PR
Date
July 1 Short Title: Chant to Be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces
Pages
Pages 26-27.
Record Number
40
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1961
Title
The Wisdom of the Desert Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
81
Edition
First UK hard cover edition. Review Copy. Short Title: The Wisdom of the Desert
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; review slip laid in.
Label
TR
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
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
1789
Reference Type
Book
Year
1957
Title
The Silent Life Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
132
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The Silent Life
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Record Number
2086
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
113
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover (with no exterior markings); uncorrected proof (unstated).
Label
R
Record Number
43
Reference Type
Book
Year
1957
Title
The Strange Islands Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
88
Edition
First UK hard cover review copy edition. Short Title: The Strange Islands
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; review copy; laid in are slips from Hollis and Carter and the Manchester Guardian.
Label
URO
Record Number
1124
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Kramer, Victor A.
Year
1996
Title
Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years / uncorrected proof
Volume
4
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Number of Pages
352
Edition
Uncorrected proof HarperCollins soft cover edition. Short Title: Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years / uncorrected proof
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Series Title
The Journals of Thomas Merton / volume 4: 1960 - 1963 Place Published: San Francisco
Number of Volumes
7
Series Editor
Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O.
Record Number
708
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Hart, Brother Patrick
Year
1974
Title
Thomas Merton, Monk: A Monastic Tribute Place Published: New York
Publisher
Sheed and Ward, Inc.
Number of Pages
230
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton, Monk: A Monastic Tribute
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; review copy with slip and publisher's promotional material laid in..
Label
RB
Record Number
2492
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Samway, Patrick
Year
2015
Title
The Letters of Robert Giroux & THomas Merton / advanced uncorrected proof Place Published: Notre Dame, Indiana
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Number of Pages
374 pages
Edition
Advanced Uncorrected Proof edition. Short Title: The Letters of Robert Giroux & THomas Merton / advanced uncorrected proof
Notes
Soft cover, advanced proof.
Label
NR
Record Number
1202
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Montaldo, Jonathan
Year
2004
Title
A Year With Thomas Merton / Daily Meditations From His Journals / Uncorrected Proof Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Number of Pages
215
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: A Year With Thomas Merton / Daily Meditations From His Journals / Uncorrected Proof
Notes
Soft cover; states "Uncorrected Proof Not For Sale" on the front cover.
Label
R
Record Number
1790
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Thomas Merton, (ed. by Arthur W. Biddle)
Year
2001
Title
When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Number of Pages
440
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Record Number
509
Reference Type
Book
Year
1971
Title
The Jaguar and the Moon
Publisher
Unicorn Press
Number of Pages
38
Edition
First hard cover edition.
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued).
Label
jaguarmoon
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: The Jaguar and the Moon
Series Title
Unicorn Keepsake Series Place Published: Greensboro
Record Number
223
Reference Type
Book
Year
1999
Title
The Intimate Merton / His Life from His Journals Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Number of Pages
161
Edition
Uncorrected proof, soft cover. Short Title: The Intimate Merton / His Life from His Journals
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Record Number
916
Reference Type
Book
Year
1990
Title
The School of Charity: Letters of Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
422
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The School of Charity: Letters of Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction
Notes
Soft cover uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
883
Reference Type
Book
Year
2002
Title
Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
187
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
1768
Reference Type
Book
Year
1997
Title
Thomas Merton and James Laughlin / Selected Letters - Uncorrected Proof Place Published: New York - London
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Number of Pages
364
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Thomas Merton and James Laughlin / Selected Letters - Uncorrected Proof
Notes
Soft cover; typed along the top of the cover is the note, "UNCORRECTED PROOF - Reviewers are asked to check all quotations against the finished book". This item has come initially from the collection of Edwin "Ned" Erbe. Erbe was Publicity Director for New Directions in the 50s and 60s, which was owned by James Laughlin. Laughlin and Erbe were good friends.
Label
R
Record Number
225
Reference Type
Book
Year
1992
Title
The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
285
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Record Number
886
Reference Type
Book
Year
1979
Title
Love and Living Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
171 (page numbers hand written in margin).
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Love and Living
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
915
Reference Type
Book
Year
1989
Title
The Road to Joy / Letters to New and Old Friends Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
369
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The Road to Joy / Letters to New and Old Friends
Notes
Soft cover uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
224
Reference Type
Book
Year
1996
Title
Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
178
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Record Number
1737
Reference Type
Book
Year
1996
Title
Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
178
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R
Record Number
107
Reference Type
Book
Year
1989
Title
Preview of the Asian Journal Place Published: New York
Publisher
The Crossroad Publishing, Co.
Number of Pages
114
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Preview of the Asian Journal
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; has publishers review slip laid in.
Label
R
Record Number
885
Reference Type
Book
Year
1993
Title
The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
284 (page numbers hand written in margin).
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition with FSG Merton bio laid in.
Label
R
Record Number
2113
Reference Type
Book
Year
2001
Title
Dialogue with Silence / Prayers & Drawings / Uncorrected Proof Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Number of Pages
188
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Dialogue with Silence / Prayers & Drawings / Uncorrected Proof
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof.
Label
R
Record Number
887
Reference Type
Book
Year
1994
Title
Witness to Freedom / Letters in Times of Crisis Place Published: New York
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Number of Pages
340
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Witness to Freedom / Letters in Times of Crisis
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
R
Record Number
1574
Reference Type
Book
Year
2003
Title
The Inner Experience / Notes on Contemplation / Uncorrected Proof Place Published: San Francisco, California
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Number of Pages
176
Edition
Uncorrected Proof soft cover edition. Short Title: The Inner Experience / Notes on Contemplation / Uncorrected Proof
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
R