Cologne, Germany: Walther Konig, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. (Schottlaender H25., pg. 147). A co-production of friend of Third Mind Books, the seemingly indefatigable Ian MacFadyen and German visual artist-&-professor Axel Heil, "William S. Burroughs/Cut" (also "spelled" / "typed" as "William S. Burroughs: Cut") is a self-styled classic of Burroughs scholarship, a full-color buffet of Burroughsiana replete with high-quality reproductions of photographs, manuscripts, artworks and more. Every inclusion is purposeful: all..... More

New York, NY; Tucson, AZ: Magnus Books; Schaffner Press, 2013; 2015. First Edition; Second Edition. Softcover. Acclaimed by the likes of Kerouac biographer Dennis McNally, Writer/Publisher/Cut-Up Connoisseur Jan Herman, and the acclaimed Historian (and Literary Executor for Hunter S. Thompson), Douglas Brinkley--Hilary Holladay's biography of Herbert Huncke is a long-overdue work, an essential addition to all Beat-&-Beyond libraries. As Brinkley (correctly) states in a blurb contributed to the back cover..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Occidental College, 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large poster (20" x 25&3/4") announcing a lecture series, exhibitions, symposium etc. held during 1986-1987 honoring the centennial of Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), the iconic American poet & environmentalist who was an inspiration to Charles Bukowski, Gary Snyder & many others. The series of events were sponsored by & mostly took place at Occidental College in Los Angeles, which was..... More

Llandysul, Wales: Gomer Press; Gwasg Pantycelyn, 1993; 1997. First Editions. Softcovers. Language Regained signed by Bobi Jones & others; Llen Y Llenor inscribed & signed by Dewi Stephen Jones to Thomas Rain Crowe. Two volumes by & about Robert Maynard (Bobi) Jones (1929-2017), a respected academician & among the most acclaimed & prolific writers in the original Welsh language: (1) Language Regained, an essay by Bobi Jones in publisher's "...series..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated at time of publication by Ann Charters. "Written between 1940, when (Jack) Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. Dispatches to the real-life models for his fictional pantheon-..... More

n/p; Carmarthen, Wales; San Francisco, CA: Booklegger/ Albion; Unicorn Bookshop; Grey Fox Press, 1973; 1976; 1993. Bookleg Edition; First Edition Thus; First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers; Unbound Sheets in Loose Wrappers; Softcover. "Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddal-da-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm..... More

Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2013. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "In the spring of 1943, not long after his first tour as a Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother and described it as a novel about "man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the..... More

New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM: Viking Penguin; Palace of the Governors, 2007. First Printing; First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcovers; Stapled Wrappers. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, ignited the Beat Generation into a popular phenomenon that in turn paved the way for the seismic literary & cultural upheavals which culminated during the 1960s. Famously written on a single..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2017. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The qualities that made On the Road a huge success and Kerouac a powerful storyteller, guide and literary icon are the same ones that rendered him remarkably unsuitable for the military: Independence, creativity, impulsivity, sensuality and recklessness." (from second page) An essay that focuses on the brief, aborted U.S. Naval Reserve career of Jack Kerouac during World..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2009. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The twenty-third number in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is an essay written to the editors of a British literary journal by then-twenty-year-old Philip Lamantia in 1947, almost a decade before he would be a founding poet of the Beat Generation/ San Francisco Renaissance (as well as one..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2007. First Printing. Hardcover. “’My writing is a teaching,’ Kerouac noted in his journal, and this was the point, even if readers didn’t get it at first. ‘One of the greatest incentives of the writer is the long business of getting his teachings out and accepted,’ [Kerouac also wrote]. He was twenty-six when he started ‘On the Road,’ shaking off a brief failed marriage and..... More

Tucson, AZ: Schaffner Press, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. "For over a century, New York's Chelsea Hotel has been a haven for countless literary, artistic, and musical icons who caroused, created, and thrived there--Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Virgil Thomson, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Sid Vicious, to name just a few. In a unique oral history format..... More