Third Mind Books

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Gregory Corso. "(Gregory) Corso's poetry is an affront to all that limits, restrains or frightens. "Death I unsalute you," he declares. His work exhibits a seemingly omniscient command of the encyclopedic details of the sad, noble tragedy of human civilization- invoking the stone tools of Neanderthal Man, the shoe-buckles, the kites and keys of Ben Franklin..... More

Los Angeles, CA (?): The Woodbine Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. A book containing the single title poem by the venerable Clayton Eshleman. As the poet explains in an introductory note, this work was inspired by a crossed-out line in a manuscript by the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo, whose poems he was translating. One of 26 lettered copies in an edition hors commerce, this is..... More

Chicago, IL: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed & dated by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. A broadside-poster (11"x14") announcing the title event at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago held on March 18, 1988. Michigan-based poet Clayton Eshleman is the leading translator into English of the works of Caesar Vallejo (1892-1938), the great Peruvian poet & playwright. At this event..... More

New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. "It should be noted...that the work which ultimately led to this volume began as a project to increase and improve the reading habits of the girls in New York City's Elizabeth Barrett Browning Junior High School. In the hope that their responses would help stimulate worthwhile reading, several prominent writers were asked: "Which book or books were your favorites..... More

Illustrated by Albert Eisenlau, Oscar Kokoschka et. Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1955. First Printing. Journal. Softcover. The first appearance of "The Mexican Girl" episode/story by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), in an early number of the legendary literary journal edited by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen & Donald Hall. Two years later it would become part of the narrative of On the Road, the great work that would catapult Kerouac & the..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, Inc., 1959. First Softcover Compass Books Edition. Softcover. "This is the novel that put Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation on the national map and the best-seller lists. Concerned with a group of exuberantly uninhibited young Americans, the narrative roars back and forth across the continent and down to Mexico in one of the most fantastic journeys ever to appear in our native literature..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1960. Signed & Numbered Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jack Kerouac. "VISIONS OF CODY is a 120-page excerpt from the long novel of the same name, which is Kerouac's favorite but which is considered unpublishable at present. It principally concerns the character who is the hero of On the Road. 750 numbered copies of this book, signed by the author, were printed for New Directions..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1960. First British Edition, First Printing in Second Issue Dust Jacket. Hardcover. "The author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums usually chooses to cover a large canvas, to give a great panorama of the Subterranean (or Beatnik) way of life. In this novel he does something different. He focuses sharply on one incident: the love of Leo and Mardou. It is a fierce, sweet..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "No American writer in the last decade has aroused so much excitement and controversy as Jack Kerouac. Big Sur is his newest and most powerful novel. In it the hero Jack Duluoz experiences a crisis of mind and spirit; it is the crackup of the "bloody King of the Beatniks." Pursued by reporters, visitors, and hangers-on attracted by his..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1966. First British Edition. Hardcover. "All of the leading figures of the Beat Generation appear in this novel, and what the reader witnesses is the way in which these people, obsessed by art, self-investigation and ideas, became aware of themselves and their own attitudes, and crystallized into a group expressing many of their contemporaries' feelings which had hitherto been hushed up or considered improper for..... More

New York, NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. An Adventurous Education, 1935-46. Charters, A25(a), pg. 47. A first edition of the last novel by Jack Kerouac published in his lifetime, in the year before his death. A fictionalized memoir as are almost all his works, this book recounts the early experiences of the author, from childhood through young adulthood. The nucleus of the Beat Generation in NYC during the..... More

Fresno, CA: The Giligia Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "John Montgomery came from the same origins as (Richard) Brautigan, was weaned by (Kenneth) Rexroth, and on the third day rose from among the blackberry tangle of Allen Ginsberg's Berkeley cottage plot from whence along parallel tensors of the San Francisco scene he intersected Kerouac novels, delivered a telephone book to Union Square's buried phone box, spent fourteen years..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here is the America of the late forties and early fifties that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently- the irrestible (sic) lure of the cross-country highways feverishly traveled by Jack Duluoz, the narrator of this book, and Cody Pomeray; the loneliness of diners and cafeterias and cheap hotels, of 42nd Street bars and cafeterias; the small towns passed..... More