Oxford University Press, 1936. First Edition. Slim octavo, red buckram cloth, silver titles, 75pp. Price-clipped dust jacket heavily toned and rubbed to panels, edges worn and creased. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A dramatic adaptation of the life and career of the Anglican reformer and Cromwell associate Thomas Cranmer.....
Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1948. First American Edition. Octavo, dark blue buckram cloth, gilt titles, 273pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75) moderately rubbed edge-worn, with a quarter chunk of loss to lower edge of rear panel, ownership signature to front flap. Ex-libris bookplate, bookseller's ticket to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and.....
Geoffrey Bles, 1966. First Edition. Octavo, pumpkin cloth, gilt titles, red topstain, 148pp. Unclipped dust jacket (16s net) heavily toned to panels, light dampstain present to top edge of front panel. Ownership inscription to front endpaper, faint toning to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Posthumous volume of uncollected.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First American Edition. Octavo, red buckram cloth, black and gilt titles, blue topstain, 151pp. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) moderately toned to panels and worn to edges, a few faint scuffs to front panel. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A twelve chapter meditation on the.....
The Macmillan Company, 1948. Later printing. Octavo, red cloth, black titles, 160pp. Seventeenth printing, December 1948. Unclipped dust jacket (1.50) rubbed and toned, with chipping and loss to top edge of panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, board edges and corners moderately scuffed. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A......
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960. 8vo, light blue cloth with red titles, 160pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (12s 6d net) with mild rubbing and spotting to panels, light wear to edges. Contents clean, binding firm. Lewis’ famous treatment of the classical four loves: eros, philos, storge and agape. Near fine.....
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1982. First Edition. Square octavo, linen cloth, black titles, [xiii], 58pp. Discreet ex-library copy with card residue to rear endpaper, stamp to copyright page, sticker impression to jacket spine. Unpriced dust jacket lightly creased and toned to panels, light fading and rubbing to.....
Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy, 1959. First Edition. Octavo, quarter black cloth over brown paper boards, gilt titles, 270pp. Unclipped dust jacket (3.75) lightly rubbed to panels, closed tear to flap edge of rear panel, light chipping to spine ends. Foxing and faint abrasions to text block edges. Contents clean, binding.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1992. First Edition. Octavo, teal blue paper boards, gilt titles, 285pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (22.95) mildly toned to panels. Collected conversations between Merton and a group of contemplative religious sisters conducted at several weekend retreats to the Abbey of Gethsemani, 1967-68. With an.....
The Bruce Publishing Company, 1950. First Edition. 8vo, grey buckram cloth, black titles, 191pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.50) toned to flaps, mild edge wear and small chips to corners and spine ends, toning to rear panel. Endpapers rubbed and toned. Contents clean, binding firm. Merton’s hagiography of Saint Lutgarde of.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 429pp. Third printing of the first edition, with no first edition statement to copyright page, second state binding, 'author on the left' caption to rear panel of dust jacket. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) with heavy rubbing and creasing to flap.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. 8vo, black quarter cloth over red paper boards, gilt titles, red topstain, 248pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) lightly toned to panels, a few short closed tears and light edge wear to corners and spine crown. Ownership signature to front endpaper.....
Gibbs M. Smith, 1981. 12mo, softcover wrappers, 63pp. Stated First Peregrine Smith edition. Wrappers mildly toned, rubbed, slight crease to spine. Contents clean, binding firm. Brief diary essay chronicling a day in the life of Thomas Merton the Trappist monk, with his own original black and white photographs of the.....
New Directions, 1988. First Edition. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, [xvii], 162pp. Unclipped dust jacket (19.95) mildly toned to flap panels. A nearly clean ex-library copy with single stamp to top edge, copyright page, discreet stickers to rear endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The Alaskan Journal, conceived from.....
Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1957. First Edition. Octavo, brown buckram cloth, gilt titles, red topstain, pictorial endpapers, 178pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) mildly worn to corners and edges, ownership signature to half-title. Contents clean, binding firm. Brief book on monastic spirituality and practice, cenobitic and hermitic life.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt titles, red topstain, pictorial endpapers, 342pp. Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to flaps, rear panel, mild chipping to edges. Bookseller's ticket to front endpaper, light fading to cloth. Contents clean, binding firm. The fourth major publication by.....
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First printing. Octavo, quarter black cloth over russet cloth boards, gilt titles, black topstain, 145pp. Inscribed by Wendell Berry to the free front endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) moderately toned and rubbed to panels, a few faint soil marks to front panel. Contents clean, binding sharp.....
Random House, 1974. Random House, 1974. First printing of the Random House edition. Octavo, quarter turquoise cloth over teal paper boards, gilt titles, 139pp. Ex-college library. A collection of nine short stories by the Black American poet, Southern-born writer and Midwestern university professor who was mistaken for the wrong man.....
Random House, 1974. First printing. Octavo, quarter russet cloth over burgundy paper boards, gilt titles, 135pp. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) moderately creased to edges and rubbed to panels. A few ownership markings to front endpaper, with the stamp 'June Jordan Collection' to top edge of text, ostensibly denoting an ex-libris.....
Random House, 1974. First paperback printing. Octavo, red typographic wrappers, white titles, 135pp. Wrappers moderately creased to spine and lower corners, toning and rubbing to rear wrapper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second volume of collected poetry by the Black American poet whose work was published posthumously by.....
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First printing. Octavo, black cloth, gilt titles, blue topstain, 230pp. Inscribed by Albert Murray to the half-title page. Unclipped dust jacket (7.95) moderately toned to panels, sunned to spine. Light mottling to top edge stain. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A collection of essays by.....
Tin House, 2016. First printing. Small octavo, pictorial boards without a dust jacket as issued, white titles, unpaginated. Signed by Joy Williams to the title page. Light fading to board corners. Ninety-nine supernaturally charged flash fictions by the contemporary short story master and novelist. A fine copy, as new.
Black Sparrow Press, 1982. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over khaki pictorial boards, blue and red titles, sea blue endpapers. 147pp. First edition, limited to 193 signed and numbered copies, numbered 193 to colophon. Signed by John Fante to the blank page following title page and copyright statement. The lightest of.....
Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 8vo, orange quarter cloth over pictorial paper boards, purple and orange titles, 167pp. First edition, limited to 150 copies in cloth, numbered 141 to colophon. Lower edge of front board shows discreet chips and bumping to corner edge. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first.....
Ace Books, Inc., 1953. 16mo, softcover pictorial wrappers, 149, [2p adverts], 169pp. First edition. Wrappers show creasing to corners and chipping and general fading to spine edge of Junkie side, lighter wear to Narcotic Agent side. Ownership signature to reverse of Junkie side and ownership insertion of the true authorship.....