Placitas, NM: Duende, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A volume of poems by Margaret Randall (b. 1936), the American author, activist and academic affiliated with mid-century expatriatism and the New American Poetry. In the opinion of Your Devoted VP-of-Operations here at Third Mind Books, Small Sounds from the Bass Fiddle is a curious, low-cost classic-in-waiting. Why more people don’t know about it is a slightly less puzzling question for this..... More

San Francisco, CA: James Koller, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. "rages/ strain/ Dog of Tartarus/ Guards of Tartarus/ Finks of the Bosses. War Makers" (untitled, Charles Olson, first stanza pg. 1) This vintage 1967 number of the literary journal co-edited (with Edward van Aelstyn) & published by the noted poet-ecologist James Koller (1936-2014) is the proverbial Embarrassment of Riches, with contributions of cutting-edge poetry, prose-poetry & prose by a dizzying array..... More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. “Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider..... More

Mexico City, Mexico: The Plumed Horn, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman & Diane Wakoski. "From January, 1962 through July, 1969, El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn was on the cutting edge of independent publishing. The bilingual quarterly, which ran from 100 to almost 300 pages per issue, published some of the best new work to come out of Latin and North America—with occasional sections from Canada..... More