Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1948. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original teal cloth, spine and front board stamped in black, original dust jacket. A nearly fine book, modest edge-wear to unclipped original jacket. "DEDICATED TO MY RACIAL ANCESTORS, WHO THROUGH THEIR SUFFERING HAVE LEFT US SO VALUABLE..... More
New York: The Museum Press, 1939. Quarto (10 inches tall) booklet, four leaves sewn, self-title with single page of text. Bookplate. Some light spotting and marginal toning to first page. Very good indeed. "SOLE LETTERS HAVE NO FATE AND REPULSE DEATH / SOLE LETTERS OF A BOOK CAN REVIVE THE..... 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