Third Mind Books

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original, and devastating. 'Let Us Now..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2003. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheet. This vintage winter 2003 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an interview with Aubrey Malone about his biography of Charles Bukowski, The Hunchback of East Hollywood, conducted by Ring; an article-review on a Bukowski documentary, Born Into This, directed by John Dullaghan; a delightful "open letter" from..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A gathering of three works, authored or heavily influenced by William S. Burroughs & his cut-up methods at their late-high point (in order): "Objective Galactic Time Demolition Plan 23" by Claude Pelieu (1934-2002), the French avant-garde artist & writer who with his wife Mary Beach was a friend of & collaborator with WSB & the publisher of..... More

New York, NY: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987. First Printing. Folded Card Stock. "To view these pictures puts the viewer in the position of the creative observer, who creates by observing. There is a distinct sensation when this creation occurs. One is looking at the picture, then a face, a narrow street filled with red mist, a mineshaft, an area of red huts, swim into view...here is a man pissing against..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Print Mint, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. From the fevered mind & pen of Robert Crumb comes this iconic underground comix classic. Beckoning the reader to "Plunge into the Depths of Despair," it is the essence of ennui, liberally sprinkled with outrageous sexuality, as only Crumb can depict. A landmark work of the golden age of the counterculture, when all barriers were broken for a turned-on..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Print Mint, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A single-issue title entirely written & illustrated by Robert Crumb from the golden age of underground comix. Featuring "Mr. Natural Goes to a Meeting of the Minds"; "Honeybunch Kaminsky "the Drug-Crazed Runaway" in She's Leaving Home" & more. A prime example of Crumb's subversive, twisted genius- the dark humor, satire & misanthropy with a heavy dose of sexual obsession..... More

London, England: MQ Publications, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. “The R. Crumb Handbook is a brand new take on the life, trials and ideas of one of the most influential cartoonists of the last 40 years. Wry, self-deprecating, and candid, this is an exceptionally revealing and unexpectedly moving visual biography. Crumb is thoughtful and enlightening, with insights into 20th century popular culture that are hilarious, challenging, and acidly satirical. He casts..... More

New York, NY: Frank O'Hara Foundation / Columbia University Press, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, close friends of Elmslie's & founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," publishers of many Beat/New York School/Black Mountain-related authors. "O peruser...These poems are good. In fact, very good. Truthfully, The Blurb finds them excellent. Some, superb. Others, less so...As for what the poems..... More

n/p: The Lost Pleiade Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (8"x11") with an untitled poem (first line: "Time of the people changed to prayer"/) by acclaimed poet, translator & activist Jack Hirschman, former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, where he founded the International Poetry Festival. One of 300 copies, not numbered, printed by Noel Young for The Lost Pleiade Press in August 1974. A handsome production with..... More

Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. A collection of poems by Jack Hirschman, the legendary & prolific former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, firebrand radical & acclaimed translator. As Hirschman explains in his introduction, this text, originally written in 1972, was lost for many years & finally turned up in 2012, making this "A Miracle Book" as he..... More

Dublin, Ireland: Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann, 1999. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by co-editor Theo Dorgan to translator Thomas Rain Crowe. "Ten distinguished poets were invited...to choose 100 significant poems of the century. Each section editor reflects on the poems that mark, characterise or are emblematic of a particular decade. They have chosen for our attention poems that interrogate and are shaped by contending histories of the island of..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a novel about America. It is a novel about loneliness, about love and the ceaseless, furtive search for love. Set in the seamy, neon-lighted world of honky-tonk USA- Times Square in New York, Pershing Square in Los Angeles, Hollywood Boulevard, and the French Quarter of New Orleans- and dealing with a little-known world of hidden sex, City of..... More