Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. "The war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it." (Diana di Prima, pg. 221). Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With a preface by editor, publisher..... More

London, England, UK: New Rivers Press, 1974. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Charles Baxter to Laurence & Nancy Goldstein. “The wind burrows into the ground. / Small animals rush away from water, / matchstick fires on their backs. / The apple tree opens. A girl is inside. / Windows have barbed wire around them, / spreading thin lines across the glass. / It is no use..... More

New York, NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Words and images played a major role in the development of the French Revolution. Printed speeches, pamphlets, newspapers, political cartoons, engravings depicting recent events, all circulated widely and helped to shape the immediate future. These are the focus of the exhibition: Words of Blood, Images of Fire: The French Revolution. By showing what people saw, what they read, even..... More

Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges in American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. The letters provide the facts and circumstances of what lies under the published literary history, and they illuminate the pathway from imaginative conception to the published texts by recounting the poetics of..... More

New York, NY, USA: MGM Records, 1970. First Edition. LP Record in Gatefold Sleeve. Inscribed, signed, dated & placed by Allen Ginsberg to Albert Glover. "To Young Old Listeners: The songs were first composed on tape recorder, improvised on pump organ in farmhouse upstate N.Y. in two nights after returning from Democratic Convention 1968 Tear Gas Chicago. These are half the Songs of Innocence & Experience now finished to music;..... More

New York, NY, USA: Twayne Publishers, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. “Eniko Bollobas’s Charles Olson introduces the reader to the radically imaginative and intensely demanding world of the poet. By suggesting possible interpretations of Olson’s themes while encouraging a creative interaction between the verse and the reader, Bollobas taps into the same spontaneous and holistic manners of human perception advocated by Olson and provides a fresh approach to his work..... More

Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "Through a detailed and thoughtful study of the impact of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy on (Charles) Olson's aesthetic theory, this book points out the conceptual unity underlying what seems to be a sprawl of fragments in Olson's major work, The Maximus Poems. The poetics that Olson developed expressed a total weltanschauung, which was influenced by two major sources. Others have called..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. "The peculiar satire characteristic of the labors of a skilled cartoonist forms the common denominator for this lively anthology of outstanding editorial cartoons. Featured here are the best works on the major issues of 1972 by 110 leading editorial cartoonists, nine of them Pulitzer Prize winners, representing newspapers, magazines, television stations and cartoon..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. "The turbulent events that shaped the world of 1974 offer provocative targets for 139 leading editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada in this outstanding collection of visual commentary. Gerald Ford's rise to the presidency, the growing threat of renewed war in the Middle..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1979. First Edition. Signed by Charles Brooks. “More than 360 eye-catching cartoons from the pens of 130 of the leading political cartoonists from the United States, Canada, and Latin America make this volume a concise pictorial history of the year’s events. Focusing upon the 24 major news stories of 1978, this volume, the seventh in an annual series, presents virtually every political point of view–liberal..... More

San Pedro, CA: Michael Phillips, 2005. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. “the bartender slides me a beer | it runs down the bar | like an Olympic sprinter | and the pair of pliers that is my hand | stops it, lifts it, | golden piss of dull temptation | I drink and | stand there | the weather bad for cows | but my brush is ready | to..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. "listening to Beethoven/ after a bad day at the track/ then frying a steak/ trying to return to creation// it's like trying to return to your love/ after a bad argument." (first two stanzas) A broadside (appx. 5&3/4" x 8&3/4") with the title poem by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar..... More

Oconomowoc Lake, WI: Stooge Magazine, 1972. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (measuring appx. 8.5” x 11") by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American author described by some as “the poet laureate of American Lowlife.” While Your Devoted VP-of-Operations here at Third Mind Books feels this is somewhat misleading when it comes to claims or critical contentions, it can be of use when thinking about Bukowski, however limited. Key to..... More