Barnet, Herts, UK: Jeffrey Nuttall, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This number of the legendary & highly collectible Mimeograph Revolution-era journal published & edited by Jeffrey Nuttall (1933-2004) features two very important contributions by William S. Burroughs, Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation & our Patron Demon-Saint (as do most of the MOM issues as we all know): "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, found and transcripted with intersection points..... More

Newark, NJ: Jihad Press, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. We at Third Mind Books suppose the elephant in the room which accompanies this uniquely rare booklet by Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) should be acknowledged, given that (as of this writing) America somberly looked back upon the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy. The Marxist-Liberationist press which released this booklet goes by the unfortunate name of “Jihad Press.” Baraka’s dalliance..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. The first thing one notices about the indefatigable Gerry Nicosia’s biographical masterwork, “Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac” is the wreath of endorsements found on the back cover. These blurb-endorsements achieve what biographers so often find to be evasive or outright impossible—the book has actually won the people who personally knew the subject over; it has accurately portrayed events..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This new collection of short fiction by one of the world's greatest...writers includes a novella and eleven short stories and represents some of (Gabriel) Garcia Marquez's earlier work of the 1950s as well as stories written in the 1960s and 1970s. The interest, audience and critical reception of Garcia Marquez continues to grow, and in these stories one finds..... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "Reuben, John Edgar Wideman's first work of fiction since the PEN-Faulkner Award winner Sent for You Yesterday, has as its hero a most unlikely character. Reuben is an aging, wizened, slightly humpbacked black man. He lives in an abandoned trailer so cluttered with the detritus of his sixty years that visitors can scarcely find him amid the litter. Yet..... More

New York, NY: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the venerable New Yorker magazine was published just several weeks after the death of William S. Burroughs (February 5, 1914- August 2, 1997), & features "Last Words" (pgs. 36-37), a two-page article under its "Personal History" category with excerpts from WSB's last diary-journal entries written from May 3, 1997 to the day before his..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The struggle of clothes up the wash-board./ The slow web of no money but sunlight./ Sunlight. Hard at the sungate, in it, o-/ ver her hands// he stands/ like the light/ that moves/ her// yet he stands/ behind her/ slightly to the left/ forever" ("Sungate," first three stanzas, pg. 29) A collection of poems by Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021)..... More

Paris, France: Opus International, 1967. First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. This vintage 1967 issue of the French-Language literary-&-cultural magazine “Opus International ” edited by Jean-Clarence Lambert is notable in its featuring a “U.S. Resistance” section, more-fully titled “Greeting the American Resistance Fighters.” It begins with a French-language translation of Allen Ginsberg’s 1964 essay in the Times Literary Supplement, “Back to the Wall,” accompanied by the immortal photograph of the Uncle Sam..... More