Third Mind Books

Melville, NY: Belwin-Mills Publishing, 1974. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, close friends of Kenward Elmslie & cofounders of Detroit's visionary "Alternative Press," publishers of many Beat/New York School/Black Mountain-related authors. Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright who became a unanimously acknowledged "master of the modern short story," who influenced James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and other early 20th century masters. "First performed..... More

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1980. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (1/1000 Unsigned & Unnumbered Copies). "Moving Right Along" is almost an unofficial "Selected Poems of Kenward Elmslie 1970-1980," because it assembles a lot of previously published work that he executed in the 1970s, during which Elmslie was explosively prolific. Classics collected here are his experimental "Alphabet Work," Communications Equipment," and three scenes reprinted from "City Junket." There are also stunning..... More

Austin, TX: Skanky Possum, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. "Blast from the Past," as the title enumerates, is an amalgam of varied selections chosen by Elmslie to reinforce this book's general retrospective theme. It is uniquely comprised of memoir-esque recollection, Elmslie's signature, twangy vowel-wound poetry and threads of lost biography that deepen our picture of Frank O'Hara, John Latouche, and the many other figures of the New York avant-garde during the..... More

St. Petersburg: Three Pines Press, 2019. First Printing. Softcover. This multi-contributor volume on mysticism and meaning was edited by and is the brainchild of Alexander Kohav, Second San Francisco Renaissance-compatriot of poet-publisher-impresario Thomas Rain Crowe (the interview subject of TMB's debut publication, "Starting from San Francisco: The Second San Francisco Renaissance and the Baby Beat Generation" [TMB Item #3071, Softcover, & TMB Item #3075, Hardcover]). In SFSF, Crowe writes of..... More

New York, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 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

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "As a Surrealist, Péret valued freedom and creativity above all else...A member of the movement from its beginning--although unembroiled in its major controversies on a personal level--[was] especially and naturally dedicated to writing poetry that would embody "the real function of the spirit"--the basic goal of Surrealism... This volume includes poems from all his major poetic works, selected for..... More

Dover, DE; Bloomington, IN: Bottle of Smoke Press; Archway Publishing, 2012; 2013; 2016. Limited Third Printing; Limited First Printing; First Edition. Sewn Wrappers; Sheet of Perforated Stamps; Softcover. Tent Shaker Vortex Voice signed by Charles Plymell; Tumbleweed of Contradictions inscribed & signed by Roxie Powell to Charles & Pamela Beach Plymell. A uniquely rare & collectible bundle of works by Charles Plymell, the legendary poet, printer, publisher & Literary Outlaw;..... More

San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1976. Second Revised Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by Jerry Ratch to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Ratch's imagination is rare in its movements; he is technically astute, and his movements among weird senses of self-isolation and meaninglessness and comic play are almost always right...We've seen contemporary life arraigned this way before, but seldom with so much depth and perceptivity. Ratch seems to be working..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Carl Solomon. "Monsieur Solomon continues his epochal battle of wits, all satanic forces of pure reason arrayed against satanic legions of tiny thoughts emerging from his civilized unconscious A.D. Post-Marxists mid-sixties eternal banalities of wisdom language confront XX Century banalities of domesticated and foreign policy. Is it humor? Is it serious? It's a substance interesting as Bronx, a...... More

Sylva. NC: New Native Press, 1992. Limited First Edition; First Printing. Chapbooks; Single Sheet. One of two chapbooks signed by Ken Wainio & publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "The eyes of the newly born/ like the newly dead are dull/ a light hangs in them/ unreachable for all its weight/ Nothing kindles their vision/ that particular entering of fire/ through an act of life/ but the dance within reflection/ across the..... More