n/p (distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Published the year after T.V. Baby Poems (item #1809), this is a facsimile of Allen Ginsberg's original 1961 hand-typed manuscript, with subsequent hand-written corrections & notations, of the first & longest poem in that previous volume, where it is titled "Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber." It is..... More

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Bob McNeely; Random House, Inc., 1969; 1972. Original Photograph; First Edition. Photograph over Mount; Hardcover. With description in Allen Ginsberg's hand on verso of photograph. A one-of-a-kind bundle of rarities relating to Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) an original photograph (appx. 9&7/8" x 7&3/4") depicting Ginsberg (1926-1997) in the company of John Wieners (1934-2002) at the Republican National Convention in..... More

New York, NY: Mulch Press, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. Tom Clark's copy with his ownership signature & marginalia. This vintage number of the venerable literary-critical journal features the first appearance of "The Visions of the Great Rememberer" by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. A memoir of Jack Kerouac & Neal Cassady that takes off from the text of Kerouac's then-recently posthumously published Visions of Cody, this is..... More

Lincoln, England: Grosseteste Review, 1975. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Old one the dog stretches stiff-legged,/ soon he'll be underground. Spring's first fat bee/ buzzes yellow over new grass and dead leaves." (first stanza, untitled poem by Allen Ginsberg, pg. 14) This special number of the UK literary journal is edited by Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995), the noted Swiss-Italian artist & writer, & features two contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of..... More

Paterson, NJ: From Here Press, 1978. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "This booklet further paves the intersection between the "mainstream" of contemporary writing and the haiku "movement" in North America. Haiku aficionados here have often attacked the rest of Western writings as decadent and full of overbearing language, its writers unable to see the reality around them or avoid self-flattering hyperbole in speaking of it. Yet, as (Allen) Ginsberg himself..... More

Cambridge, MA: Firefly Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. A slender volume of poetry in the form of earthy, uninhibited song lyrics by Allen Ginsberg, among the great original members of the Beat Generation. This is one of the scarcest rarities in all of the vast small-press Ginsberg oeuvre. One of only 50 numbered copies signed by the poet. This is copy #16/50. With photographs by Rosalie Post, including a tipped-in..... More

Boulder, CO: New Blood Press, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This July 1982 number of the literary journal/zine features the first appearance of the poem "The Little Fish Devour the Big Fish" by Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond, as here. As Ginsberg notes at the end of the poem, it was composed at "11pm Intercontinental Hotel bar Managua Nicaragua January 25, 1982" & is an exemplary..... More

Hanover, Germany: Apartment Editions, 1988. First German Edition. Stringbound in Stiff Wrappers. Allen Ginsberg’s interviews and works of literary criticism—his writing on his and others’ poetry, the wealth of recordings in the form of classes he gave at the Naropa Institute—are invaluable documents for the poet, the critic, and the historian for understanding this once-in-a-century mind and social dynamo. “The Riverside Interview” was formed from three conversations Ginsberg had with..... More

Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “David Ignatow is “the one.” “The many,” of which the one is a part, are the others who shaped and inspired—or sometimes impeded—his life as a writer. This book is a memoir of an artist-in-process. It is, first, a work of memory of his early life in Brooklyn, the struggle to find the freedom to write, his life as reluctant son..... More

New York, NY: Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Lightning's blue glare fills Oklahoma plains,/ the train rolls east/ casting yellow shadow on grass/ Twenty years ago/ approaching Texas/ I saw/ sheet lightning/ cover Heaven's corners/ Feed Storage Elevators in gray rain mist,/ checkerboard light over sky-roof/ same electric lightning South/ follows this train/ Apocalypse prophesied- / the Fall of America/ signaled from Heaven-" (from "Part One/..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "The revealing personal journals of premier American poet Allen Ginsberg from the crucial years of his youth, Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958 is a must-read for everyone fascinated by the Beat Generation and its place in American literary and cultural history. A portrait of the artist as a young man at peak creative energy...In these years Ginsberg made radical discoveries in poetics- including..... More

Gran Canaria, Spain: Zasterle Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. Addressing, now the Ginsbergians, Your Devoted Curators here at Third Mind Books dutifully proffer the following: “Luminous Dreams,” — a collection short prose works by the indefatigable Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Compiled & released by Spain’s Zasterle Press in the months immediately following the poet’s planetary denouement (in April 1997), “Luminous Dreams” does a distinct and honorable service to..... More

New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg- the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, (father) of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw..... More