Third Mind Books

New York, NY; Hollywood, CA: Marcel Rodd Co., Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. "Christopher Isherwood's translation of this heretofore unavailable classic of autobiography has the same sharply incisive qualities as the great poet's original words, thoughts, and bitterly unhappy feelings...W.H. Auden, his long time friend and collaborator, and equally distinguished, has contributed an important interpretative introduction." (from front flap) The intimate diaristic musings of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), the iconic French..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In the last two years before his death (Albert) Camus himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life. The book stands as a record of the experiences that nourished all of Camus' great work- a record not only of those exterior events in which he was involved, but..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More

n/p: Cottonwood Magazine & Press, 1987. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet Framed. Signed by Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor. "Phoned up the doctor, official reply: "Never Mind"/ Same afternoon, suggested we take iodine/ Three days later Chernobyl's error disclosed/ All over Europe people are saying, "Who knows?" (fourth stanza) A broadside (appx. 11" x 17"; 13" x 18&3/4" incl. matte & frame) with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, a...... More

London, England: Calder & Boyars, 1973. First UK Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Painter, poet, jazzman, traveller, Ted Joans wanders the world reciting his poems from New York to the Sahara Desert. Andre Breton said he was the only Afro-American surrealist. His poetry carries a free-wheeling spirit of adventure and a fierce sense of injustice within a powerful rhythmic line. It should be read out loud with the enjoyment and vitality of..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones- of longing and alarm, or urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the..... More

New York, NY; Salem, NY: Kicks Books Co.; Bottle of Smoke Press, 2013. Deluxe First Edition; First Edition, Ephemera. Softcovers; Postcards; Bottles; Boxes. Deluxe edition & two cards all signed by Charles Plymell. "Charles Plymell roared out of Kansas with tires blazing while the Beat scene was still in training wheels. Weaned on jump blues, true grit and Dr. Gimmy Gommy's Goodies, Plymell redefined the fast track with blunt force..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "The most versatile of the younger novelists who have helped shape American letters during the last decade, Gore Vidal has written in The Judgment of Paris, a major novel. He has retold in modern terms the ancient legend of Paris and the Golden Apple and the result is an extraordinary novel of a young American's year in post-war..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I doubt if many of the aces I will be extolling in this story went into journalism with the faintest notion of creating a "new" journalism, a "higher" journalism, or even a mildly improved variety. I know they never dreamed that anything they were going to write for newspapers or magazines would wreak such evil havoc in the literary..... More