Third Mind Books

Seattle, WA: Double Elephant Folio & Quarto Co., Inc., 1969. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A very large (appx. 11&1/3" x 13&2/3") folio with very high-quality facsimile reproductions of engraved illustrations by the iconic British artist, poet & printer William Blake. As explained in colophon, "This book has been printed by photo-offset lithography from the original edition of 1804. It is number three in the Double Elephant- San Vito Press series..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow, 1979. Limited First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "Like the ship's captain who rushes into the first lifeboat in drag, Benway rejects the pompous hypocrisy of his profession and this rejection is so outrageous as to provoke laughter rather than censure." (from Introduction, pg. 10) A variant passage from William S. Burroughs' breakthrough work, Naked Lunch, starring his immortal routine-character Dr. Benway, the unforgettably over-the-top, breezily..... More

London, England: The Ferry Press, 1977. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Fielding Dawson. "So, first things first differently, and the first thing was, as it happens, my recent essay 'On Destiny,' which the act of writing caused me to realize that something else was unfolding before me: I realized in my essay, while finding its point, was creating a limitation. In other words, that essay created this one, because..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 4 No. 13 (May - June 1960)- This issue, titled "What is 'Pataphysics?," is introduced in a "Superliminal Note" by Roger Shattuck, who states seven definitions-principals beginning with " 'Pataphysics is the science of..... More

Paterson, NJ: From Here Press, 1978. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "This booklet further paves the intersection between the "mainstream" of contemporary writing and the haiku "movement" in North America. Haiku aficionados here have often attacked the rest of Western writings as decadent and full of overbearing language, its writers unable to see the reality around them or avoid self-flattering hyperbole in speaking of it. Yet, as (Allen) Ginsberg himself..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. "There is deep excitement in the originality and power of Bob Kaufman's poems. Perhaps the first to "discover" this young American Negro writer was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who published him in two City Lights broadsides (San Francisco, 1959 and 1960). Now Kaufman has assembled the work of ten years in Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, a collection that will have tremendous impact..... More

n/p; Carmarthen, Wales; San Francisco, CA: Bootlegger/ Albion; Unicorn Bookshop; Grey Fox Press, 1973; 1976; 1993. Bootleg Edition; First Edition Thus; First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers; Unbound Sheets in Loose Wrappers; Softcover. "Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddal-da-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered (Twice) by Gerard Malanga. "Eight of the ten poems were selected from my most recent work-in-progress, 'The Notebooks.' Through numerous revisions I have given the individual poems by this time a perfection of which I was obviously incapable earlier. For through the process of revision I have learned to differentiate what's false to my poetry from..... More

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to read, either to pass examinations or to acquire information, from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We are reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation / City Lights Books, 1964. Third Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Now here's some quintessential Olson--stylistic, admonishing, alluring yet borderline incomprehensible. This writer would argue that one has to consider Olson's letters--along with his famed, sprawling talk-a-thons--within the context of his amphetamine use. While I am aware that this is something footnoted and known about Olson--that his amphetamine use sometimes shaped his lectures and talks--I don't..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The skill was not to snub the nose of the pickerel on the under edge of the ice as, with wet, numb hands, you brought him up- more often than not he was a perch- out of the water six inches or three feet down, as the winter went, from the frozen surface of the lake." (first paragraph..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, March 2017. Limited Edition (#38/125). Stapled Wrappers. Jed Birmingham, perhaps best known for his exceptional site on all things William S. Burroughs, the Mimeograph Revolution and beyond, here has composed a brilliant essay on Charles Olson, the Black Mountain-affiliated mid-century poetic giant (literally and figuratively) and details his trip to the Ralph Maud/Charles Olson Library and his experience at the Charles Olson Memorial Lecture. The..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2005. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In the spring of 1884, Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. In this bold and colorful narrative, veteran writer Mark Perry reconstructs the heady..... More