Third Mind Books

New York, NY: Sadruddin Aha Khan, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Ted Berrigan at his interview with Jack Kerouac. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton with, among others, American poetry giant Donald Hall & (as "Poetry Editor") the Beat-&-Beyond prolific poet & biographer Tom Clark, features an interview with Beat Generation Founding Father Jack Kerouac, conducted by the great New York School..... More

Albert Eisenlau, Oscar Kokoschka et.al. 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 Beat Generation..... 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: Grove Press Inc. / Evergreen Books Ltd., 1961. First Printing. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Here is the complete Kerouac text, with photos selected by Robert Frank from the film Pull My Daisy- a short cinematographic exhibition of "Beat" life in a Bowery "pad" on New York's Lower East Side, with spontaneous performances by poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, painter Larry Rivers, composer David Amram..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered by Barry Gifford. “THE MYTH OF THE RAINY NIGHT! Just awoke to shroud mist morning, veiled day, heavy traffic on Bridge St.—mill men on their way to work. Last night “Louise” came home ‘bout 3 A.M. with a man but wouldn’t let him in her room. “Aw, lemme in Louise—Louise honey, I ain’t got no place to go”;..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First British Hardcover Edition (Publisher's File Copy). Hardcover. "Maggie Cassidy is a haunting and tender recreation of (Jack) Kerouac's first love. Jack Duluoz is sixteen, at once gauche, passionate and football-crazy, and Maggie Cassidy is a sexually precocious high-school girl a year older than he...and although Jack is only too conscious of the problems caused by his extreme youth and inexperience, and her wayward sexuality..... More

n/p: Pacific Red Car, 1984. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Here we have two quite different examples of (Jack) Kerouac's short story writing, from different periods of his life. "The Rumbling, Rambling Blues" first appeared in Playboy magazine of January 1958, shortly after On the Road was published. Unusually, for Kerouac, the story, although written in the first person, does not appear to be autobiographical, but is possibly the..... More

San Anselmo, CA: Fels & Fern Press, 1986. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac gave me the idea of interindependence. We have to respect the independence of others. We all want independence, even though we are dependent on so many things and so many people. He was striving for "beatitude", the beatific existence of Saints, with complete detachment from the world, without abandoning the world. People in Lowell don't really..... More

New York, NY: Paragon House, 1990. First Softcover Edition (First Edition Thus). Softcover. "While a legend has developed about the man Jack Kerouac, there has not been a thorough study of what he wrote. Regina Weinreich is the first to explore Kerouac's place in American literature by establishing the total design of his work. She contends that Kerouac wrote with this 'grand design" in mind, that he thought of his..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated at time of publication by Ann Charters. "Written between 1940, when (Jack) Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. Dispatches to the real-life models for his fictional pantheon-..... More

Devon, England: The Kerouac Rag, 1999. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Hi Cats, Kittens, and just plain succulent Critters….Reprints of [Jack] Kerouac’s [1922-1969] books continue to appear on the shelves and new biographies of the man fall from the presses…he’s still being marginalized by the media and the literary establishment. Nobody…writes with the genius of Kerouac, his words live on the page. His life and works are the hottest, most exciting..... More

Sala, Richard. New York, NY: Gallery Six, 2003. Pre-Publication. Spiral Bound Wraps. Pre-publication illustrated screenplay "Jack Kerouac gives free reign to the powers of his soaring imagination in this previously-unpublished screenplay adaptation of his mystical, vision-novel Doctor Sax. Basing the haunting tale in true reflections of his 1930's childhood growing up in the industrial milltown of Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac spins out a dark cosmology as "concentrations of evil" gather- vampires..... More

Corte Madera, CA: Noodlebrain Press; Paul Blake Jr., 2019; 2003. Limited First Lettered-Signed Edition; Signed First Edition. Softcover; Stapled Sheets. Book hand-lettered & signed by Gerald Nicosia & Paul Blake III; treatise signed by Paul Blake Jr. "Gerald Nicosia wrote Memory Babe, the highly acclaimed biography of Jack Kerouac, who made millions of kids want to follow him on the road, then went back to his mommy, drank himself to..... More