Third Mind Books

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The Electric Banana by Mary Beach is a unique auditory experience approaching the actual found sounds of language as it mutters half a street sign repetitive argument overheard conversations bits of pop songs in millions of minds like some gigantic octopus with myriad tentacles..." (from Introduction by William S. Burroughs) The avant-garde stream-of-consciousness cult classic by Mary..... More

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

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First Edition. Hand-sewn Wrappers. Signed by Author. An autobiographical prose piece by the wife of Beat poet Ray Bremser. Sex, Drugs, and the Beat Generation all converge in Greenwich Village in New York City, 1960. 8 pages, + foldout 4-page poem. Also includes an illustration of a vintage couple. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, Bonnie Frazer (aka Bonnie Bremser) (total..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1976. First Printing. Softcover. A compendium of excerpts from speeches, press conferences, etc. by California Governor Edmond G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr. from early in his first term. Published by City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic imprint which produced Allen Ginsberg's Howl & so many other Beat Generation classics. Now serving again, Brown was a most iconoclastic political & cultural figure during his first tenure..... More

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., Spring 1959. First Printing. Softcover. A famous & essential collector's item, this is "the complete contents of the suppressed winter 1959 Chicago Review" as noted on the front cover. As editor Irving Rosenthal explains in his introductory editorial, the authorities of University of Chicago Press would not allow contributions by William S. Burroughs or Jack Kerouac in the Chicago Review, due to their then-very controversial..... 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

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996. First Printing. Spiral Bound. A blank spiral notebook sold at the acclaimed 1996 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts." With reproduction on clear plastic front cover of an untitled collaborative artwork by WSB & Brion Gysin, "Rub Out The Word," circa 1965, which appeared in their co-written book..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. An original postcard with a very well-printed reproduction of Carolyn Cassady's drawing of her husband, Beat-&-beyond icon Neal Cassady, gracing the whole front surface. Signed & dated 1951 at lower left corner, the drawing depicts Neal typing, seated in loose-fitting pajamas. Issued in 1976 as part of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual series by Arthur Knight (1937-2012) &..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1976. First Edition. Sheet. This is the first broadside published by Beatitude Press, a prose-poem by Neeli Cherkovski with a most Beat sensibility. Folded as issued. A fine collectible rarity. As New. More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1951. First Book Club Edition. Hardcover. "This book has been written to answer all the questions which the intelligent layman asks about the new science of "astronautics"- a subject which is increasingly in the public eye. The treatment, though scientifically accurate, is entirely nontechnical and the many remarkable plates- four in full color- give a vivid impression of the way in which space-travel may..... More

San Francisco, CA: Angel Island Publications, 1958. First Edition. Periodical. This is the very scarce first issue of Contact, published in 1958. Contributors to this premiere issue include Ray Bradbury, Evan S. Connell, S.I. Hayakawa, William Saroyan, Alan Watts, William Carlos Williams and others. Front & back covers are worn & spine creased, but the inside pages are in very good condition, slightly yellowed with edgewear. Signature-bound softcover. An important..... More

Madison, WI: The Wisconsin Institute for Intermedia Studies, n/d (circa 1980s). First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (11"x17") announcing a reading by Diane di Prima, among the key female literary figures of the Beat Generation & beyond. The reading took place in Madison, Wisconsin under the auspices of the Wisconsin Institute for Intermedia Studies, with di Prima headlining "plus a spotlite on Madison poets." With reproduction of a well-known early..... More

Philadelphia & New York, NY: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This book for the first time answers in a systematic way the often-asked question, What was Bloomsbury? It was not, Edel finds, altogether the parcel of snobs, egotists, eccentrics, and elitists of the common legend. The "Bloomsberries" struck out for sexual freedom, they questioned the "received ideas" of the Victorians, they helped renovate writing and painting in..... More