Third Mind Books

London/New York: High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1991 as a sumptuous limited edition by the Whitney Museum of American Art, this is the first trade edition of a late short novel that "tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can tell it" (back cover blurb). Issued without dust jacket, in glossy pictorial boards. A beautiful copy. As New..... More

Miami, FL: Press of the Black Flag, 1970. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Robert Creeley. A broadside (7"x11&1/2") with the short, fierce title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), an affiliate of the Beats, Black Mountain College & in the pantheon of American poets. With his hand-signature above his printed name. No reference to publisher or limitation, but our research indicates this was printed by the Press of the Black..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press/Evergreen Books, 1958. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In the fall of 1953, when the atmosphere of conformity seemed thickest in America, a group of writers began publishing DISSENT, a quarterly journal of democratic-socialist opinion. VOICES OF DISSENT contains some of the best and most provocative articles which appeared in the quarterly during its first five years."(from back cover) This is the first softcover edition, large format..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Published in 1969, Ferlinghetti's politically-charged populist hymn was yet another audacious stab into the heart of military-industrial complex America and its corrupt and powerful perpetrators. With the text set in Ferlinghetti's own hand, "Tyrannus Nix" provides a poignant, era-specific glance at the backstage debauchery that has poisoned the American political process in a way that curiously echoes our current era..... More

San Francisco, CA: Privately Printed by the Author, 1979. First Printing. Broadside. A broadside (8" & 1/2" x 11") reprinting a poem-editorial originally published in the New York Times on May 12, 1979. "A Nation of Sheep" is a litany on the molding of the continent resultant from the atomic burst of money-grabbing entrepreneurial activity that gave birth to super industry America. Yet another of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's time-tested classics, the..... More

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed to Charles Plymell by Charles Henri Ford, & with additional related ephemera. "In the 1940s, as the world stood divided by war, View magazine, together with the talents of the European and American artistic communities, helped define the avant-garde movement in this country and established New York as a world art center."(from front flap) The first anthology of the..... More

n/p: The Lost Pleiade Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (8"x11") with an untitled poem (first line: "Time of the people changed to prayer"/) by acclaimed poet, translator & activist Jack Hirschman, former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, where he founded the International Poetry Festival. One of 300 copies, not numbered, printed by Noel Young for The Lost Pleiade Press in August 1974. A handsome production with..... More

Berkeley, CA: Paperback Editions Limited, 1957. First Printing. Softcover. "This exciting second issue of NEW EDITIONS features....A romantic rhapsody of boyhood by Jack Kerouac, author of a novel soon to be published by Viking...." (from back cover) An otherwise mostly obscure anthology with a most notable contribution- by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, published earlier during the same year that his "novel soon to be published by..... More

New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This hard-hitting collection of essays probes the relationship of the contemporary writer to his country's political and moral climate. Mr. Krim, who feels that fiction is no longer an adequate means of portraying what's going on in the new world around us, explores the theme of the artist in action and offers illuminating comments on the works of..... More

Davis, CA: Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover. Published in conjunction with the 1991 exhibition commemorating the Spatsa Gallery in San Francisco--a little known yet legendary San Francisco Gallery which typified the art of the San Francisco Renaissance. Most interesting Beat-era reproductions, in near mint condition with only the slightest rubbing to front cover. Near Mint. More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. "This book comes from the conviction that so long as human beings go on building up levels of tolerance against the abominable, the abominations will grow." (from introduction, pg. 5) A fist-shaking Jeremiad against "Man's inhumanity to man; his unearthliness to earth" (pg. 5) by Thomas Parkinson (1920-1992), the Berkeley-based provocative professor, poet & writer. Much of this urgent manifesto..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966 / 1969 (1968). First Edition, Second Printing / Second Printing. Softcover. Offered here in a bundle package are two classic Beat works from Carl Solomon, dedicatee of Allen Ginsberg's celebrated "Howl & Other Poems." A note of bibliographical specificity: most internet sellers' descriptions of Solomon's first title, "Mishaps, Perhaps" claim it as a "first edition," because a second printing is not listed on..... More