Third Mind Books

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1969. First Edition. Single Sheet. This poster (appx. 14” x 21;” King, BG-160-OP-1, pg. 502) designed by Greg Irons (1947-1984) announces a 4-day concert (February 13-16) presented by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991) at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA. Headliners Santana were an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana (b. 1947). The band..... More

Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1989. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. John Coltrane (1926-1967) spent his final decade engaged in an increasingly restless musical & spiritual search, pushing jazz toward radical new freedoms. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins (b. 1947) began researching Coltrane while attending Amherst College, interviewing his first wife, Juanita “Naima” Grubbs (1926-1996) and collaborators including Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022), Yusuf Lateef (1920-2013), Elvin Jones (1927-2004), & Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)..... More

New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1995. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. A biography of Jazz titan, John Coltrane (1926-1967) by noted music writer, Eric Nisenson (1946-2003). Nisenson’s biography, as its title implies, focuses on Coltrane’s evolution from a primarily R&B and hard bop saxophonist to a trailblazing exemplar of Free Jazz. Nisenson clocks this transformation as beginning in 1957, the year Trane kicked junk, and considers his 1965..... More

West Liberty, OH: GreatHouse Company, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. "Spirit Catcher is the highly acclaimed biography of one of America's greatest musicians. More than a jazz book, rather the story of an artist's spiritual quest. Using vivid metaphors Spirit Catcher puts the reader on the front lines of jazz from the forties to the sixties- following coltrane from backing up a polka player in the fifties to dominating the jazz..... More

San Francisco, CA: Open City Press, 1965. First Edition. Folded Sheets. “John Love showed me the scars burned on the back of his arm by an electric cattle prodder. “You don’t ever know how you’re going to react when they beat you,” he said. “I don’t want to hit back…yet I never know what I’ll do until the time comes.” Love, despite his name, did not look with benevolence upon..... More

San Francisco, CA: Open City Press, 1965. First Edition. Folded Sheets. “Dear Nikita: / I am glad and I know some others who are glad that you are in good health. You still have a small car and a chauffeur. And you are still riding up front with him as you used to: you respect each other. There is Nina. Your grandchildren. The dacha. You inspected some monument the other..... More

San Francisco, CA: Open City Press, 1965. First Edition. Folded Sheets. “I cannot convey the idea of a nuclear explosion by lighting a match. Words are comparable to lighting matches in order to describe the nuclear explosion of LSD in a human brain. Those who have taken the drug must know this. Those who have not are misled by a profusion of word-symbols concerning the effects of LSD. And the..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Open City/ John Bryan, 1967. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. "he was a rich bastard/ in the steambath,/ crying. he had all the recordings of/ J.S. Bach and it still wasn't doing him/ any good. he had stained-glass windows/ in his place plus a photo of a nun/ pissing. still: no/ good. he once had a taxi driver/ murdered/ at full moon in the middle of the/..... More

Los Angeles, CA: John Bryan/ Open City, 1968. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. "I would like to sound a word of warning to the 'Dancing Academy' in 'Hazard'. Should the world's gravity be reduced by the other half which is known as Gravity Gert the force of the suns rays would increase by one half from Pitman's Common Sense Arithmetic constituting the heat death." (William S. Burroughs, from "Old Fashioned..... More

San Francisco, CA: John Bryan, 1968. First Edition. Folded Sheets. "...Tito came, Flame came, and Moon and Heno came. Paulito came, Harry, Lucky, Sunny, Crimpo and Primo and Mondo came each one in their turn fucking and laughing and drinking." (excerpt, "Skinny Dynamite," Jack Micheline, pg.2). Offered today is "Renaissance: A Magazine of the Arts," section two from publisher & editor John Bryan's (1934-2007) "Open City," an underground weekly newspaper..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Open City/ John Bryan, c. 1971. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. " "Who is the third that walks beside you? The third column of time? Some wise guy come around to your own people with these 1920 scraps? HAVE BEEN IN DESPERATE BATTLE. We want to hear pay talk Daddy, and we want to hear pay talk NOW." " (William S. Burroughs, "Who Is the Third That..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1969. First Edition. Single Sheet. This poster (appx. 14” x 21;” King, BG-161-OP-1, pg. 503) designed by Greg Irons (1947-1984) announces a 4-day concert (February 20-23) presented by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991) at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA. Headliners The Move were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1965. Their original line-up comprised lead guitarist Roy Wood, singer Carl..... More

New York, NY, USA: Totem Press/ Corinth Books, 1962. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Traveling for days to reach you,/ my mind- a room full of telephones ringing/ and no one to answer them; hundreds of phones ringing/ in an empty room-/ I cannot stop to relax. At night I am traveling,/ transferring from one train to another. During the day/ I am walking from one end of the train/ to..... More