Third Mind Books

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. The first hardcover edition of a compilation of three novels by the late Kathy Acker, the provocative experimental author among whose influences was William S. Burroughs. Consisting of Kathy Goes to Haiti, originally published in 1978 in a limited small press edition; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, about the controversial, murdered Italian film director & first published..... More

New York, NY: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "This extremely moving novel deals with a universal human situation. It is the story of a loving and closely knit family and of the loss and heartbreak in that intimate circle when a beloved member suddenly dies. Yet A Death in the Family is not a sad book. It is essentially a story of love, which glows with affection and tenderness..... More

New York, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A Beat-literary Cut-Up Classic, reissued—at long last—with consummate dignity: “Electric Bananas” [initially titled “Electric Banana”], the William S. Burroughs-inspired assembly of (brilliantly confounding) clusterfucks-in-prose first issued in 1975. Happily reprinted here is Burroughs’ key introduction to the work, for his imprimatur here is not “unthinking” in its praise. It speaks less to the friend-considerate, Beat-writerly “ritual favor” of “Introduction-gifting”..... More

New York, NY: Beatitude Press, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Ah, Beatitude Press…that cherished, (Beat-) credentialed institution whose mythic origins trace back to the heady emergence of the “San Francisco Renaissance” and its peripatetic, sui generis founder, Bob Kaufman (1925-1986). An interesting, if little known fact about Beatitude Press is that—for a brief moment in the early 1960s—editorial control of the press was informally passed back and forth like some..... More

New York, NY: George Braziller, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each one of us wanted to cry out, somehow to express our shock and horror at the assassination of the President. Each one of us tried to say in conversation what we felt, but essentially we were mute. Our gestures were helpless; our impulses somehow to monumentalize those days, to hold them and not let them sink into banality and acceptance-..... More

San Francisco, CA: Dave Haselwood Books, 1967. Second edition. softcover. First published by the Auerhahn Press in 1960, this is the second edition of The Exterminator, with different colors on covers, & a slightly larger format. (Maynard & Miles, A4(b) p. 22) One of 1000 copies. An early & very important collaboration between WSB & Gysin, they both contribute texts & Gysin provides calligraphic illustrations, including on the covers. "The..... More

Providence, RI: John Hay Library, Brown University, 2000. First edition. Softcover. The Exhibition Catalog for the William S. Burroughs exhibit that took place at the John Hay Library of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from October-December of 2000. With essays by noted WSB critical biographer Jennie Skerl, & others. Extensively illustrated with b/w reproductions of rare WSB publications, manuscripts, letters, etc. A beautiful rarity itself. As New... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "Eight extraordinary stories by the author of Other Voices, Other Rooms, including the celebrated "Miriam" and "Shut a Final Door," both of which have won O. Henry awards. Mr. Capote's reputation was made by his short stories long before the success of his novel. This, the first collection to be published in book form, (also) includes "A Tree of Night,"..... More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Criminal...Saint...Lunatic...Genius...Muse...He literally began and ended his life on the side of a road. In between he inspired an entire generation of Beat poets and writers. Once described by Jack Kerouac as "more like Dostoevsky than anyone I know," Neal Cassady lived what the others could only write about. He served as the model for Kerouac's frenetic hero, the hip Noble Savage..... More

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

Sylva, NC: New Native Press, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by translator & publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Literary 'student' of Baudelaire, contemporarian and 'protégé' of Arthur Rimbaud; Hughes-Alain Dal...is a mystery--- During the past year in which I have worked slowly and sensitively in an attempt to render true to the American idiom, through French landscape, the translations of the poems within this book, my inquiries as to..... More

New York, NY: The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1948. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Madame de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, is the most distinguished woman writer in present-day France. A leading exponent of French existentialism, her work complements, though it is independent of, that of Jean-Paul Sartre. The present work, which introduces her to the English-speaking public, penetrates at once to the central ethical problem of modern man: what shall he..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho" is an exceedingly rare small press run of 500 copies pressed on September 1, 1970 "for friends of the author." As the title implies, Ferlinghetti took cues from his study of Haiku masters Basho and others and combined it with his then fully-flowered creative force for this memorable collection of..... More