Third Mind Books

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1967. First Edition. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 13&3/4" x 21") announcing a concert produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991), with performances headlined by The Byrds, Electric Flag, and the ineffable B.B. King, in San Francisco during December 7, 1967 at the Fillmore; & December 8-9 at Winterland. Acclaimed American artist Bonnie MacLean (1939-2020) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, & “B..... More

Berlin, Germany: Moloko Print, 2024. First Edition. Softcover. "If you only know one photograph of the Beat Generation, you know this one. It's the single most famous picture of (William S.) Burroughs, (Allen) Ginsberg, and (Jack) Kerouac, but who took it, when, where, and why? What are its secrets, and how can it be a crime scene? Whatever you think you know is almost certainly wrong, so to unravel its..... More

Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "Two very beautiful naked girls are crouched facing each other." (opening sentence, Travels in Hyperreality, pg. 1). Travels in Hyperreality, written by Italian medievalist philosopher & journalist Umberto Eco (1932-2016) and translated by William Weaver, is a compilation assembled for English-language readers from three Italian collections of his journalism and occasional essays, Il costume di casa (1973), Dalla..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1992. First Trade Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. With three inscribed & signed cards from Lorna Goodison to Laurence Goldstein. A collection of poems by Lorna Goodison (b. 1947), the legendary Jamaican essayist, memoirist and poet who for many years taught at the University of Michigan & is presently the Professor Emerita of Afroamerican and African Studies there. This bundle, as is..... More

London, England, UK: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1946. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed, placed & dated by Stephen Spender. "I think that there is a certain pressure of external events on poets today, making them tend to write about what is outside their own limited experience. The violence of the times we are living in, the necessity of sweeping and general and immediate action, tend to dwarf the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Foot Magazine, 1962. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "From the whole being the tree/ in the green leaf goes forth,/ and soon we will not see far.// The river will be obscured by the many/ powers of the leaves in the light/ feeding the wood. But they are nothing/ lasting- conductors or translators only!" (Robert Duncan, "Now the Record Now Record," first two stanzas, pg. 54) The vintage second..... More

Blackburn, Lancs, England: Screeches Publications, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “By the standard that we set for ourself we have failed yet it is a failure in a worthwhile cause. We, and I use the pronoun in the Imperial or the collective sense depending on the sensibilities of the reader, attempted to compile an anthology of the hidden language of erotic love. To seek out from off the walls of..... More

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. “My eyes are doors // the moon walks through them // i have the moon in my head / it is white / round / luminous / as they say / it is heavy // my skin is cut to pieces / by the sharp points of the stars // my body is polarized / hangs / has an orbit..... More

London, England: The Poetry Book Society LTD, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A petite anthology (or “supplement of American poetry”) edited by W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) & published by the Poetry Book Society of London in the winter of 1961. It features unique early work by the American poet & editor affiliated with Surrealism, Michael Benedikt (1935-2007); the great American poet, Robert Creeley (1926-2005); Barbara Guest (1920-2006); David Ignatow (1914-1997); Robert..... More

Bensenville, IL: Douglas Blazek (Open Skull Press), 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "In the days when I thought I was a genius and starved and nobody published me I used to waste much more time in the libraries than I do now. It was best to get an empty table where the sun came through the window and get the sun on my neck and the back of my head..... More

Bensenville, IL: Doug Blazek (Open Skull Press), 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "horsefeet down the window's way | is it real? where am I? hell, | drunk again? curtains like the | sadness of a Garbo film | or people climbing into lifeboats | in a shitty swine-like | effectual sea. old songs like | bats in the dark | kissing my nose. | the characters in Camus and |..... More

Buffalo, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1967. First Edition. Single Sheet. Offered today is a spring program for events starting on March 1, 1967 for The Intstitute of Further Studies. The Institute of Further Studies was founded in 1965 in Buffalo, NY by Albert Glover (1942-2026), George F. Butterick (1942-1988), and Fred Wah (b. 1939). They were graduate students orbiting literary leviathan Charles Olson (1910-1970) at SUNY Buffalo, with John..... More

New York, NY, USA: Full Court Press, 1982. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Written at a turning point in his life- when he was kicking drugs in Tangiers, writing Naked Lunch, and emerging from the literary underworld, these letters from (William S.) Burroughs to his young friend (Allen) Ginsberg are not only an intimate, diaristic account of who was doing what, with whom and when, but also a record, as..... More