Third Mind Books

Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1991. First Edition. Flexi-Disc Record in Paper Sleeve. An old-time "Flexi-Disc" type floppy 7" record with readings of two of his poems by the late, legendary Beat-&-Beyond cult writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). The first work, "Love & Fame & Death," was published in Bukowski's 1974 collection, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973; the second reading may be extemporaneous or unpublished. Originally, this..... More

Ostheim/Rohn, Germany; San Francisco, CA: Verlag Peter Ensler; Self-Published, 2009. First Edition Thus; Original Photograph-Greeting Cards. Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheet; Photograph-Cards in Envelope. Mindeater: Altes Land signed by Charles Plymell; One of two Holiday greeting cards inscribed & signed from S. Clay Wilson & Lorraine Chamberlain to Charles & Pamela Plymell. Two collectibles, one quite rare & the other one-of-a-kind, relating to Charles Plymell. As poet, prose writer, editor &..... More

Madison, WI: The Wisconsin Institute for Intermedia Studies, n/d (circa 1980s). First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (11"x17") announcing a reading by Diane di Prima, among the key female literary figures of the Beat Generation & beyond. The reading took place in Madison, Wisconsin under the auspices of the Wisconsin Institute for Intermedia Studies, with di Prima headlining "plus a spotlite on Madison poets." With reproduction of a well-known early..... 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

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

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1986. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. Signed by Taylor Mead, Legendary Underground Actor & New Yorker. This publication from legendary Lower East Sider Taylor Mead is a centerpiece rarity for any collector interested in New York City during the 1950s & 1960s. Mead, who became infamous for his roles in Andy Warhol's avant-garde films, was also in San Francisco during the mid-1950s. He experienced..... More

New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second volume in the series of poetry anthologies compiled & edited by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist, published by his imprint, Hawk's Well Press. This volume features contributions of poetry by the French Dada pioneer Guillaume Apollinaire (a passage from "Victoire" translated into English by David Antin); the key Black Mountain School poet Robert Creeley ("The..... More

San Francisco, CA: Canessa Gallery, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2"x22") with a prose essay-reminiscence about the North Beach area of San Francisco. Published anonymously & with no reference to place, publisher, date, etc. According to John Sherlock's Bibliography of Works By and About Gary Snyder (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, 2010), the author is Snyder, the great primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. It was..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Glee Knight, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This issue is dedicated to Henry Miller, a great artist, on his 81st birthday." (from contents-copyright page) Thus do the late Arthur (1937-2012) & Glee (a/k/a Kit?) Knight state the main theme of this vintage issue of their acclaimed, pioneering series of Beat-related publications under the umbrella title of "The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual." Henry Miller, the great..... More

New York, NY: Venture Publications, Inc., 1960. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by poet Diane Wakoski at her contribution. This number of the venerable literary journal chiefly edited by Joseph J. Friedman features the final interview with the legendary French Existentialist writer-philosopher Albert Camus. As noted, "The sixteen questions comprising the interview were sent to Camus in August 1959. Camus' reply, dated December 20, 1959, was received here on December 26..... More