San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. “After his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-Howl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. Contrasting Duncan’s daringly frank homosexuality with Rumaker’s own then-closeted life, Robert Duncan in San Francisco conjures up with harrowing detail an era of police persecution of a clandestine gay community..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale Literary Society, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. “Now there is a Love of which Dante does not speak unkindly / Tho it grieves his heart to think upon men / who lust after men and run / –his beloved Master, Brunetto Latini, among them– / Where the roaring waters of hell’s rivers / Come, heard as if muted in the distance, / like the hum of bees..... 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 York, NY: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2015. Second Edition. Hardcover. "A key under-recognized artist of his generation, Wallace Berman was an enigmatic, underground figure whose collages and assemblages articulate an important strand of dark spirituality in postwar American culture. Berman's hand-printed, personally distributed literary journal, Semina, stands as an iconic document of its time, presaging a variety of cultural and esthetic developments and..... More

New York, NY: David R. Godine, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This seventh number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features a special section of writer-to-writer interviews, including Robert Duncan with Michael McClure & Edmund White with Gilbert Sorrentino. The former pairing is of particular significance to the Third Mind collector, with two immortal (though sadly both gone temporally) icons of the..... More

Buffalo, NY: Duncan McNaughton, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage literary journal, compiled & published by renowned poet Duncan McNaughton, features contributions by Michael McClure (the two-part poem "Tatagatha Valentines"); McNaughton himself (the short poem "Page for the Buddha of Right Motive"); Charles Olson (a short untitled poem dedicated to Bob Hogg dated October 23, 1967); Edward Sanders (the poem "The Barge of Charles Olson Down River by the..... More

Boston, MA (1) / Fresno, CA (2) / New York, NY (3) / No Place (4) / Ann Arbor, MI: Twayne [1]; The Giligia Press [2]; New Directions [3]; [4] Anonymous; [5] Third Mind Books, 1961; 1969; 1991; 2018. First Printings. Hardcover; Softcover in Stiff Wraps; Single Sheet; Softcover. Here we feast our eyes upon the Supreme Scholarly "First and Second San Francisco Renaissance Bundle," an it's-all-here package featuring five..... More