New York: A New Directions Book, 1968. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, spine title stamped in white, original dust jacket. About Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. "OVER THE DOOR OF HELL IS WRITTEN: 'THEREFORE!'" First edition of Cables to the Ace—Thomas Merton's work of modern anti-poetry—an "animated mosaic..... More
Spenser, Massachusetts: Cistercian Publications, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original sage cloth, gilt spine, original pictorial dust jacket. Small owner ink-stamp to front endpaper, very slight edge-wear to unclipped dust jacket. A nearly fine copy. "EVERY CHRISTIAN MAY, IF HE SO DESIRES, ENTER INTO COMMUNION WITH THIS SILENCE OF THE PRAYING..... More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth boards, two mounted printed paper labels, original dust jacket. Fine. "LET US THROW OFF THE PIECES OF THE WORLD LIKE CLOTHING AND ENTER NAKED INTO WISDOM" First revised edition of Thomas Merton's meditations on the spiritual life—printed in the same..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Octavo, original white paper boards, cloth spine printed in black, original dust jacket. About-Fine. "AFTER COMMUNION I THOUGHT MY HEART WAS GOING TO EXPLODE" Handsome facsimile edition of The Seven Storey Mountain—Thomas Merton's spiritual autobiography, which "became a best-seller because it was a religious..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1966]. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Slight wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "AFTER COMMUNION I THOUGHT MY HEART WAS GOING TO EXPLODE" Handsome edition of The Seven Storey Mountain—Thomas Merton's spiritual autobiography, which "became a best-seller..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus & Cudahy, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth, gilt spine and device to front board, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, horizontal closed tear across spine, minor wear to corners and spine ends. Very good indeed. "MY LORD GOD, I HAVE NO IDEA..... More
New York: New Directions, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original white cloth, lettered and decorated in black, original dust jacket. Book fine, minor creasing and closed tears, tape repair to verso of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine. "TAO IS GREAT IN ALL THINGS, COMPLETE IN ALL, UNIVERSAL IN ALL, WHOLE IN..... More
Menlo Park, California: Layman's Press, 1963. Quarto (8 1/2 by 11 inches), original orange photographic wrappers, lettered in white, 96 pages. Fine. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THOMAS MERTON'S "LETTERS TO A WHITE LIBERAL" First edition of The Negro and the White Conscience, a pivotal issue of the early—Catholic—incarnation of..... More