Third Mind Books

London, England: Ferry Press, 1966. Limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "The pain of being a candy bar/ in a pub- oh madness it's/ beautiful not to be included,/ but it's lonely too and makes you remember/ the social instincts one can't ever foil!/ They're so great! Feeling like a man- what's better than that?" ("Explanatory Ways," first poem in this collection in its entirety) The first publication by Tom..... More

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

Madison, MN: The Seventies Press, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Robert Bly. The first issue of the literary journal edited & with contributions by Robert Bly, the canonical American poet. A legendary landmark compilation with prose essays & commentaries by Bly & poetry by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg, Spanish Master & Martyr Federico Garcia Lorca (translated into English by Bly), Beat-Surrealist Philip Lamantia, revered Austrian modernist Rainer..... More

London, England: John Calder, 1964. First UK Edition. Hardcover. (Maynard & Miles, A2c, pgs. 11-14; Shoaf, Section I, No. 2t, pg. 20; Schottlaender, A2d, pg. 3). “The Naked Lunch is one of the most important and most controversial novels to have appeared since the war…Burroughs is at the same time the central figure in the ‘beat’ movement and the principal American post-Joycean, using and creating language in a new way..... 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

San Francisco, CA: Searchlight Publishing, 1978 (Reprinted 1988). Second Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This penultimate number of the musical, cultural & literary underground journal originally published & edited by V. Vale features an interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ray Rumor (undoubtedly a pseudonym). In this transcribed interview, WSB opines on cultural-societal, political & even economic topics- very few of his statements relate, at least directly, to his literary..... More

London, England: John Calder (Publishers) Limited, 1984. First UK Edition Thus. Softcover. "From a well-argued attack on those who wish to over protect our privacy and sense of shame, to a remarkable series of interviews with Daniel Odier, and a consideration of the ways in which information is transmitted and received in different cultures of the past and in our own increasingly robotized world, The Job reveals the mind of..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Beginning this essential compendium of fragmentary treasures subsequently assembled is an illuminating, informative essay by James Grauerholz, paramount authority on the life & work of William S. Burroughs. Grauerholz relates the events & circumstances surrounding the creation of the work; delineating with unrivaled accuracy the origin of the source material that became "Interzone" & its rescue from the Tangier "word..... More

Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century Fox, 1991. First Edition. Stapled Sheets; Photographs. "The time is 1953. The place is New York in the grip of winter. William Lee, former junkie and now pest exterminator extraordinaire, is doing his daily rounds, killing cockroaches for the citizens with his poison. Until, like the insects themselves, his wife Joan becomes hooked on poison powder, and Lee's grim little life starts to whirl out..... More

New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "The fathers of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, converse about deeply intimate and personal history in this free flowing, days-long dialog, edited by longtime Ginsberg collaborator Steven Taylor. Topics include literature that influenced their writing, shamanism and its usefulness in modern society, favorite punk rock musicians, and the need for art to counter oppressiveness. They also..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Sky above California apartment building/ Sky above Damascus' whitest mosque/ Sky above Franz Schubert composing a nostalgic measure/ Sky above Vida Blue throwing smoke/ In all of you one common ingredient: Blue/ Blue is not white/ Death is white/ Blue is cool/ Blue is all right" ("Blue," pg. 11) A collection with the title poem..... More

Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press, 1982. Limited First Edition. With signed autograph poem by Tom Clark; & original drawing. "A project begun in 1980, and culminating in the present edition, Under The Fortune Palms is a sequence of sixty poems anatomizing in verse that complex cultural, sociological and geographical entity known as "So Cal." " (from prospectus) A collection of poems about the place-phenomenon of Southern California by Tom Clark..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition / Review Copy / Association Copy. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken Mikolowski, close friend of Elmslie's & founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," publishers of many Beat/New York School/Black Mountain-related authors. (1/750 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). In this exceptional early apex in the multitalented Kenward Elmslie's prolific career, Elmslie bursts forth just a year after Ron..... More