San Francisco, CA: The Lapis Press, 1988. First Edition Softcover. Softcover. From the Library of Thomas Rain Crowe. Available here in its true first edition softcover format is the group of memoir-esque critical essays from Neeli Cherkovski, "Whitman's Wild Children," which focuses on ten major Beat or Beat-affiliated poets who exerted an indelible influence on Neeli and his generation of writers. Cherkovski, who features heavily as a subject in the..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating & delightful production by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books, the iconic Beat-&-Beyond bookseller & publishing imprint in San Francisco. Each day of each month features the birthdays of major literary, musical & cultural figures. Who knew, for example, that William S. Burroughs & Joris-Karl Huysmans were both born on February 5 (of 1914 & 1848 respectively); or..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books/(Various), Circa 1960's-1988. First Edition. Single Sheet. Offered here is an eclectic collection of 13 rare vintage postcards & ephemera from the famed HQ of all-things-Beat, the immortal City Lights Bookstore. Spanning a wide range of years, these postcards contain images of the bookshop in the late 50's-early 60's, the 1970's, and the latest dated postcards among them are from 1988 (as stated). Also included..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "...From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic, and not publishing (that pitfall of the little press) just 'our gang.' I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment. What has proved most fascinating are the continuing cross-currents and cross-fertilizations between poets widely separated by language or geography, from France..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

New York, NY: David R. Godine, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This seventh number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features a special section of writer-to-writer interviews, including Robert Duncan with Michael McClure & Edmund White with Gilbert Sorrentino. The former pairing is of particular significance to the Third Mind collector, with two immortal (though sadly both gone temporally) icons of the..... More

New York, NY & Cleveland, OH: The New American Library, Inc./ The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. "The Contemporary American Poets is a collection of representative work by the best poets writing in the U.S.A. It stays clear of bias, favoring no one group of poets over any other, reflecting, instead, the rich variety that characterizes contemporary American poetry...(providing) the reader with the clearest and most comprehensive view..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Third Mind Books, 20185. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, Lettered, Limited (1/26) "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. 'Starting from San Francisco' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Golden Gate Publishing Company, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The one & only issue of this quintessential production by Robert Crumb, subtitled "A Comic for the Broad Masses!" on front cover. Featuring "Fritz the Cat-"Superstar"" in which his famous feline creation is dispatched by a bird-woman with an ice pick. Legend has it that Crumb wanted to end any further treatments of Fritz after being disappointed..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition, Third Impression. Softcover. An early collection of poems by Robert Duncan (1919-1988), a major figure in 20th century letters, associated with the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance (of which he was a Founding Father) & the Black Mountain School. The first poem, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," is one of his most famous & "...provides a commentary..... More

Berkeley, California: Oyez, 1968. Limited Edition. 20" x 28" Broadside. Signed with citation by Robert Duncan. A large broadside by Robert Duncan, from a limited edition of approximately 100 un-numbered :restricted" copies not intended for sale, published in 1968 (Berthold, A28(1), Pg. 88). Duncan is a major figure in 20th century American poetry, associated with the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance & the Black Mountain Poets. The text of the..... More

Toronto, Canada: The Coach House Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "And I'm strongly, strongly persuaded that the entire area of poetry is consciousness. Not that there isn't any unconsciousness but that everything in poetry is manifest and the minute it's sounded it belongs to consciousness." Transcript of a deep, thoughtful interview with Robert Duncan (1919-1988), the canonical American poet of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & Black Mountain..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979. First Printing. Softcover. "Robert Duncan: Scales of the Marvelous is another volume in the New Directions series Insights: Working Papers in Contemporary Criticism, an informal approach to the presentation of ideas currently available on particularly important modern writers."(from back cover) A compilation of scholarly, critical studies covering many aspects of the work of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), a major figure in 20th century..... More