Third Mind Books

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition, Second (?) Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "To Lord Richard Buckley, his most euphoric Lordship, greetings! What a treat to hear your new shatterbusting recording delivered like a true hipster with variations...It's all so very alive and jumpin' and in the pauses one can hear the atoms exploding out there in the Milky Way where the grass comes up every once in ten..... More

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Maynard & Miles, B27(a), pg. 98. A compilation of writings issued only in the UK as a softcover original, edited by Donald Allen & Robert Creeley. Features an excerpt from The Naked Lunch (as it was originally titled) by William S. Burroughs, along with a short biographical note on WSB in an appendix. Also contributions by Richard Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Lawrence..... More

London, England: Aloes Books, 1975. First Edition. Chapbook in Stapled Wrappers. Transcripts of a 1964 radio broadcast by Eric Mottram, early William S. Burroughs critical biographer (William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need, 1977) responding to the ban of WSB's works in Britain at the time; & a 1973 conversation between Mottram & WSB. A great rarity full of insight by & about WSB, in very fine condition with only very..... 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

Portland, OR: Tim Kerr Records, 1992. Limited First Edition. 10" LP in Jacket. The only finished collaboration between William S. Burroughs, the foremost figure of the Beat Generation & beyond; & Kurt Cobain, the acclaimed, doomed Nirvana front man & pioneering grunge musician. WSB reads the title short work, originally published in Exterminator! (1973), with Cobain's dissonant guitar accompaniment. As noted in Schottlaender, this is a "10" one-sided EP picture..... More

Bulletproof Film, 2011. First Edition. DVD. A tender, vibrant portrait of the life and work of a Beat Generation icon, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN is an intimate documentary that breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s. His novel..... More

Wuppertal, Germany: Lichtblick Video, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. ""Back to Wuppertal" is the title of the poem Allen Ginsberg scribbled into the guest book of the Forum for International Poetry one hour after his arrival in Wuppertal on February 16, 1983, where the final performance of a three-month tour through Northern Europe was to take place."(from front flap) This book was originally a companion to a VHS video packaged together..... More

New York, NY: The Paris Review, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the highly prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton along with such esteemed literary figures as Donald Hall & Tom Clark (its official Poetry Editor) features an interview with Charles Olson, the 'Maximus' intellectual & physical Giant of Black Mountain School-&-Beyond poetry. Olson (1910-1970) had passed away very early in the year this issue appeared..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1959. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "IS THERE AN AVANT GARDE IN GERMAN POETRY TODAY and, if so, with what is it concerned and toward what is it advancing? This volume is an attempt to answer such questions. JEROME ROTHENBERG, its editor and translator...spent a year and a half with the 'peacetime' Army in Mainz, living with his wife 'in a postwar office building..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity...Indeed, The Outsider is a logically untenable book unless it is read in the light of Author Wilson's conviction..... More