Third Mind Books

Buffalo, NY: Duncan McNaughton, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage literary journal, compiled & published by renowned poet Duncan McNaughton, features contributions by Michael McClure (the two-part poem "Tatagatha Valentines"); McNaughton himself (the short poem "Page for the Buddha of Right Motive"); Charles Olson (a short untitled poem dedicated to Bob Hogg dated October 23, 1967); Edward Sanders (the poem "The Barge of Charles Olson Down River by the..... More

n/p (distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Published the year after T.V. Baby Poems (item #1809), this is a facsimile of Allen Ginsberg's original 1961 hand-typed manuscript, with subsequent hand-written corrections & notations, of the first & longest poem in that previous volume, where it is titled "Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber." It is..... More

Grindstone City, MI: The Alternative Press, 1979. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Bob Rosenthal as himself & as "Allen Ginsberg." "I'll tell my deaf mother on you! Fall on the floor/ and eat your grandmother's diapers! Drums, / Whatta lotta Noise you want a Revolution?" (first three lines of poem) A small broadside (approx. 8" x 10&1/2") with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, a founding father of..... More

Gottingen, Germany: Expanded Media Editions, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. This early Cut-Up collection by British author Hammond Guthrie in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin was published in Germany by Expanded Media Editions, publishers of WSB's Electronic Revolution. The text is in English. One of 20 numbered copies signed by the author, this is copy #4/20. In near fine condition, with some wear to..... More

Peter Jonckheere. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Neptune Books and Music/Suzanne Hines Lodder, 1995. Limited Edition. Card. Signed by Herbert Huncke; also hand-numbered, signed & dated by illustrator Peter Jonckheere. This is one of only eighty hand-designed & printed cards created to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Beat legend Herbert Huncke in 1995, the year before his death. Huncke had been invited to the Netherlands by Suzanne Hines Lodder to read from his..... More

Flint, MI: The University of Michigan- Flint, 1988. First Printing. Single Sheets. Two copies of announcement both signed & dated by Amiri Baraka. Two copies of a rare item relating to the recently deceased LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, among the earliest African-American members of the Beat Generation. The University of Michigan at Flint mailed this announcement of an appearance there on November 3 of what we presume..... More

New York, NY: The Hearst Corporation: Avon Books Division, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Once again Jack Kerouac's gift for mirroring the sense and essence of an era, for catching the breathing moments of life, his uncanny ear for truth- all is richly revealed in this unique and nostalgic novel of a boy's first experience in love...of his exhilarating and bewildered search for the unawakened man still hidden behind the trembling..... More

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Sealed in shrinkwrap "Mark Cohen's anthology resurrects Seymour Krim's lost or little-known work. It reminds old fans of his extraordinary style and wit, and introduces a younger generation to an American original. I'm delighted to see Krim's writing back in print and accessible to readers once again."(Jonah Raskin, author of "American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat..... More

New York, NY: Interim Books, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Sheets Bound in Wrappers. Signed by poet Diane Wakoski at her contribution. The third number of a quintessential exemplar of "The Mimeograph Revolution" literary phenomenon during the 1960s. Edited by the prolific longtime poet & publisher Kirby Congdon (whom we believe is still active in Key West at about age 95 as of this writing); & published/distributed by poet-painter Jay Socin..... More

New Haven, CT & Athens, Greece: Pharos/Athens, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "(Henry Miller) went to Greece at a time when his creative and personal life was at its lowest point, and when the realities of Nazism and the horrors of war refuted with finality the established values of high-culture Europe which he himself had already questioned. Greece- and certainly (George) Katsimbalis, (George) Seferis and their circle- awakened a...... More

London, England; Amherst, MA: Villiers Publications Ltd.; Mulch Press, 1962; 1972. First Printing; Limited Edition. Softcover; Sewn Binding with Stapled Cover Sheets. Nomad journal signed by Diane Wakoski. A bundle of two inter-related rarities: (1) Nomad/New York Ten/Eleven, Autumn 1962. This double number of the literary journal edited by Donald Factor & Anthony Linick (with Anselm Hollo listed as "European Correspondent"), published in London, features mostly poetry & some prose..... More

New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The third volume in the series of poetry anthologies compiled & edited by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist, published by his imprint, Hawk's well Press. Featuring contributions by eminent Beat Generation & related poets Robert Kelly (an excerpt from "Spiritum" & translations into English of two ancient Indian poems); Phillip Lamantia ("Jeanlu"); Rothenberg himself ("A Bodhisattva Undoes..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Ben Pleasants. Signed, numbered, Limited Edition (#76/125). In this undiscovered gem from Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press, Los Angeles Poet, playwright, & journalist Ben Pleasants delivers an article on the hilarious-yet-inconceivable infighting that ran rampant in the private lives of myriad influential American authors in and around San Francisco in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Rexroth..... More