Third Mind Books

Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "With Poets on the Peaks, writer-photographer John Suiter has created a literary portrait of Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Kerouac centered around their experiences as fire lookouts in the early 1950s. Featuring Suiter's evocative photographs of the peaks, fire lookouts, and mountain vistas, as well as numerous historical pictures, the book is also a photographic homage to the Cascadian landscape...Based on scores..... More

New York, NY, USA: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Trade Edition. “Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southern China, this is a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts. What proof of love do we seek between mother and daughter, among sisters, lovers, and friends? What are its boundaries and failings? Can love go beyond “Until death do us part”? And if so..... More

New York, NY, USA: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. “On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and the heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she joined the SLA and..... More

San Francisco, CA: Reality Sandwiches Delicatessen, c. 1974-1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. Offered here is a unique piece of Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) / Second San Francisco Renaissance ephemera: a flyer for “Reality Sandwiches,” an “Omni-Deli of food delights” which took its name from the poet’s 1963 book of that same name. The store was stationed in the heart of North Beach at 524 Union Street (“Near Grant,” as the flyer..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Hardcover. "Queen's Bench courtroom Number Seven in the tradition-rich London Law Court is the stage for the most unusual and electrifying legal battle in British history. England's most eminent barrister looked directly into the faces of the jury. "There comes a moment in the human experience when one's life itself no longer makes sense when it is directed to the mutilation and murder of his..... More

San Francisco, CA: Planet/Drum Foundation, 1981. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage number of the newspaper-format cultural-environmental journal published by the Planet/Drum Foundation dedicated to "Reinhabitory culture, restoration of the biosphere..." (from masthead, pg. 15) features a very important & insightful front-cover article entitled "Cities: Salvaging the Parts," a transcribed panel discussion among four activist-authors including Gary Snyder (b. 1930), the canonical American primary poet & environmentalist of the..... More

Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1967. First Edition. "He was trusting and did not expect to be harmed. He believed in men and hoped in them. The light never went out in him, not even at the last moment, the light that, more than anything else, made him die tragically with his eyes open" (Meeting Miguel Hernandez, pg. 42). This vintage number of the literary journal edited & with contributions..... More

Wilson, NC: Loblolly Press, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the North Carolina literary journal chiefly edited by Tom Braswell features an essay, "Back Country Poet," by Gary Snyder (b. 1930), the Great Beat Generation- San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond poet-environmentalist who is still with us at age 94 as of this writing, & has taken his place in the canon of the Library of America. As noted preceding this most-enlightening..... More

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Phoenix, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here..... More

Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Barb, 1976. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage number of the legendary San Francisco Bay-area underground/countercultural newspaper features a cover article about Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady & Co., the Beat Generation & especially impressions of Kerouac's breakthrough classic novel On The Road. Entitled "On The Road Again With Kerouac And Cassady," the article consists of excerpts from writings credited to one Gary Luson (whom we could..... More

San Francisco, CA: Oracle Co-operative Publishing Co., 1967. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage issue of the legendary newspaper-format underground literary & cultural journal from the very center-peak of the 1960s psychedelic phenomenon, edited by the American poet Allen Cohen (1940-2004), features "Academy 23: A Deconditioning" by William S. Burroughs- Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond & the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise. This classic WSB Jeremiad denouncing the..... More

New York, NY, USA: The Saturday Evening Post Company, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early 1969 number of the venerable, quintessentially American "middlebrow" magazine then-chiefly edited by William A. Emerson Jr. (1923-2009) features a cover article by Martin Mayer (1928-2019), the once-popular & prolific non-fiction author. Entitled "How to Publish 'Dirty' Books for Fun and Profit," this is a profile of Barney Rosset (1922-2012), the Great American Publisher whose..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The third number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic Beat imprint, City Lights Books. Featuring an article by Richard Shattuck about the great French Surrealist poet & playwright Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918, "Apollinaire's Great Whitman Happening") with a photograph of Apollinaire; Mary Beach's translation from French into English of a...... More