Lax Robert Merton Thomas (22 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Very Good. 1st, No Additional Printings. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Good. 1st, No Additional Printings. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st, No Additional Printings. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends, some waving to the fore edge of the fly leafs, and a previous owner's name penned to the head of the half title page, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in an unclipped Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with short tears and very small chips to the spine ends and corners, sun fading to the spine, some short tears to the cover edges, and mild rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Not Ex-Library Copy. Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.Text Unmarked.Binding Is Solid.Not Ex-Library Copy. first edition, first printing .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1978 Hardcover. Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. B & W illustrations. Nice beige cloth cover, one corner is very slightly bumped, slightly soiled.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Small stain in outer margins of about half the book. Unclipped dust jacket with faded spine.

Clothbound Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Very Good +. viii + 128 pages. Illustrated in b & w. Photos provided upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Condition: Fine. dj. First Edition. 8vo, wheat colored cloth, black titles, photographic endpapers, 128pp. First issue, unclipped dust jacket (8.95). Mild toning and edge wear to jacket panels. A collection of jovial and parodical correspondence between the two poets, together with selected poems and calligraphic drawings by Merton. Foreword by Brother Patrick Hart, O.S.C.O. A nearly fine copy in mylar. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4th printing ; xxvi, 690 pp., [16] pp. of plates ; illustrated, portraits ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0395313244 :; 9780395313244 LCCN: 84-10944 ; LC: BX4705.M542; Dewey: 271/.125/024 ; OCLC: 10875978 ; purple and white cloth with metallic purple lettering, in purple white and gold dustjacket ; the first authoritative life of Thomas Merton to appear in print ; important resource ; FINE/VG. Book.…

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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 496 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Oatmeal cloth. viii, 128pp. Design by Emil Antonucci, and with a foreword by Brother Patrick Hart. Very Good in lesser dust jacket, somewhat rubbed and with areas of fading, though sound.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo, brown buckram cloth, gilt titles, [xx] 448pp. First Edition. Unpriced dust jacket. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An extensive volume of correspondence between the American Trappist monk and his longtime friend the poet Robert Lax, who also became a monastic of sorts, retreating in the 1950s to a solo hermitage in Greece. The letters span three decades of friendship from school days at Columbia to an era of collaborative publishing and are interspersed with poetry, supplemented by an interview with Lax and a dedicatory piece of concrete poetry for Merton, with drawings by Emil Antonucci. A fine copy.…

Condition: New. pp. 470.

Condition: New. pp. 470 Illus.

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Cloth. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. 1st Edition. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1978. Private Press edition and 1st. 1978 signed and inscribed first edition Sheed, Andrews and McMeel, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri), 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches tall tancloth hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, viii, 128 pp.on fine wove paper. nicely preserved in a clear archival sleeve. Dust jacket with original calligraphy by Thomas Merton, frontispiece by Thomas Merton. Lax (1915-2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with the co-author of this collection, famed twentieth century Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915-1968). Lax's most famous book, Circus of the Sun (1959), a meditation on creation, was heralded by The New York Times as 'perhaps the greatest English language poem of this century.' Because of the simplicity of his later work, he has been called one of the patron saints of literary minimalism; some of his poems can go on for several pages using no more than four words and a punctuation mark. Robert Lax has signed over the printed signature on the front endsheet quite clearly, this was a possibly personal copy lost or given away after his death, as he lived as something of a hermit on the Greek island of Patmos for most of the last 35 years of his life. Thomas Merton (illustrator). By the Author.…