San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990. Second Edition, Tenth Printing. Softcover. "It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems to have more than most. From Jack Kerouac on working on the railroad...Jack London on the 1906 earthquake to Tom Wolfe on the acid tests of the 1960s, San Francisco Stories collects..... More
[Item #4410]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 80 begins with a remembrance by Susan Kay Anderson, former student of Ed Dorn, renowned and respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain school, about the time spent and lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative American Letters. Following this is a similar elegiac remembrance of John Wieners by Raymond Foye, depicting Wieners and..... More
[Item #2572]
Warwickshire, England: Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early issue of Kevin Ring's exceptional Beat Scene Magazine from 1996 begins with an obituary for Herbert Huncke, titled "Huncke the Hipster;" it continues in a somewhat different format for those familiar with the later, or more recent issues of the celebrated Beat-&-Beyond quarterly. We have a "Beats and Co" compilation of recent publications and news related to Beat..... More
[Item #3839]
Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1975. Second Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert Bly to Thomas Rain Crowe on the Occasion of the legendary First San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1976. "All day wind had called me,/ oceans, a yellow line streaking/ across the sky,/ bones thrown out of graves." ("Sitting in Fall Grass," first stanza, pg. 19) A collection of poems by Robert Bly, the great..... More
[Item #3666]
Leesburg, VA: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2003. Lettered Signed Edition. Loose Sheets in Folder. Each broadside signed by author. "Bottle #1 is the first in a series of "all-broadside" magazines. We will publish this magazine as material becomes available." (from copyright-colophon panel) One of the rarest & greatest productions of Bill Roberts' venerable Bottle of Smoke Press: Twelve small (5&1/2" x 8&1/2") broadsides by some of the most acclaimed contemporary..... More
[Item #3607]
New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Charters learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain." (Allen Ginsberg, from Back Cover). This exceptional collection, edited by one of the most pioneering and legendary Beat-&-Beyond scholars, the..... More
[Item #3811]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More
[Item #4442]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Printing. Softcover. The fourth number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic City Lights Books imprint, here edited by Mendes Monsanto. With a staggeringly rich roster of poets & prose writers at the forefront of the Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance, as well as their progeny-proteges of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance..... More
[Item #4066]
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
[Item #3602]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Putting Peter Coyote's life into a few words would be impossible. He is an actor and writer. You may know his distinctive voice from so many documentaries and movies. He was a Digger and remembers those turbulent times well." (front flap) An essay by Peter Coyote, the acclaimed actor, screenwriter, director & author, about his experiences as a founding..... More
[Item #3452]
San Francisco, CA: Parachute Salon Press, 1974. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Tom Cuson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "shot down from his fighter-bomber, he was a prisoner of war in north vietnam/ for seven & a half years. he learned french. he taught french. he wanted to/ be an astronaut. he followed orders. he survived. he came back after seven/ & a half years. he shook..... More
[Item #3731]
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
[Item #3658]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "These are poems of an irregularity. From the beginning I had sought not the poem as a discipline or paradigm of my thought and feeling but as a source of feeling and thought, following the movement of an inner impulse and tension rising in the flow of returning vowel sounds and in measuring stresses that formed phrases of a music for..... More
[Item #3943]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Out of the sun and the dispersing stars/ go forth the elemental sparks,/ outpouring vitalities,/ stir in the salitter of the earth/ a living Spirit,/ and the stars, mothers of light, remain,/ having each/ its own "organic decorum, the complete/ loyalty of a work of art to a shaping/ principle/ within itself" " (("Passages 31: The Concert," first..... More
[Item #3996]
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
[Item #3956]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958; 1959. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 2 No. 6 (Autumn 1958)- this issue features contributions of poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder & other giants of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York & Black..... More
[Item #4252]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this book I have attempted to delineate the Western archetype by examining one of its most salient features: the creative writer. Abstracting from his personal achievement I treat him as a distinct species, a phenomenon spanning several generations of Western experience, to arrive as a late but authentic symbol in the pantheon of American images we have developed over our two centuries..... More
[Item #3356]
San Francisco, CA: American Newsrepeat Co., n/d (Circa 1967). First Edition. Single Sheet. A large poster (22" x 28&1/4") with magnified reproduction of a classic photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the great Founding Father of the Beat Generation as both poet & publisher, who is still with us at 101 years old as of this writing! The location of this portrait is obviously City Lights Books, the iconic venue in San..... More
[Item #3517]
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1969. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems, and it has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of "our clay condition." " (from back cover) A...... More
[Item #4430]
New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. " "Do you enjoy your own mind? Maxims and legends of total reality, echoing and reechoing there?" asks Lawrence Ferlinghetti in discussing this, his seventh book of verse. "If we could only decipher it....Visual beatitudes, landscapes of living and dying flashed upon the dark screen...." The poems in Who Are We Now?, truly "landscapes of..... More
[Item #3681]
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Love in the Days of Rage is a work of Lyricism and commitment, painting and politics, passion and intellect- a prescient book to set beside the great expatriate novels of earlier generations. It was 1968, and the streets of Paris were alive with the graffiti of revolution..." (from front flap) A mid-late career work of recent-historical fiction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the..... More
[Item #4332]
London, England: The Bodley Head, 1988. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Spring 1968: while the streets of Paris reverberate with the student protest which is to sweep through the country in a wave of revolutionary fervour, an unlikely love affair springs up between Annie, an American expatriate painter...and Julian, an affluent middle-aged banker and armchair anarchist. Their relationship matures amidst the heady mixture of anger and euphoria erupting from cafes and..... More
[Item #4394]
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. "If there had been only/ one Buddha in the woodpile/ In Waco Texas/ to teach us how to sit still/ one saffron Buddhist in the Back rooms/ just one Tibetan Lama/ just one Taoist/ Just one Zen/ just one Thomas Merton Trappist/ just one saint in the wilderness/ of Waco USA" (first lines) A large broadside (appx..... More
[Item #3831]
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. "A sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind (written forty years after the original in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year), A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a sequence of one hundred and one related poems with recurrent themes. The author also thinks of it as a kind of caustic..... More
[Item #4382]
Sanjo-Shi, Niigata: Japan: Blue Beat Jacket / Yusuke Keida, 2002. Limited First Printing. String-Bound. "This issue is Lawrence Ferlinghetti special from the Vojo Sindolic Beat Archive, Dubrovnik in R. Croatia. ... Ferlinghetti poems, his photos, drawings & the poet's 'statement for "BBJ" came from Vojo. But we found some of them unpublished so left them off. Last April (of 2001) Ferlinghetti sent us two broadsides with a card (pg. 2)..... More
[Item #4397]