San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "A work which would free much of the encumbrance upon man as himself a universe- not microorganisms, microcosm- would start with Hesiod, taking him as a base-line and saying anything after him as 'lost' something and that all which he does show and include is a beginning of dimension of man's place in the cosmos as it had been..... More
[Item #3982]
New York, NY: New Directions, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. Complete with one-of-a-kind "Olsonite" sticker, this copy of Charles Olson's "Selected Writings" with introduction by Robert Creeley is from the collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, co-founders of Detroit's visionary Alternative Press, publishers of many "Beat'/ New York/"Black Mountain School"-affiliated authors. We don't know how the "Olsonite" sticker got there--whether it was an Alternative Press production or a gift from Creeley..... More
[Item #3099]
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. "Causal Mythology," if Third Mind Books would have been in charge of assigning a title to the book, would read exactly the way our listing title shows it. At the very least, it would provide some reference to the fact that it holds within its covers a significant lecture delivered by the great-&-powerful Charles Olson (1910-1970). The second thing to..... More
[Item #4808]
Columbia, SC: Beatdom Books, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s, the authors of the Beat Generation helped introduce American readers to Eastern philosophies and, in particular, to Buddhism. Poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac are often credited with this phenomenon, while, as is so often the case, the women are sidelined. In this illuminating new study, Max Orsini examines the impact of two female poets, Diane..... More
[Item #4283]
Lowell, MA: The Lowell Corporation For The Humanities, Inc., 1989. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac's books represent an intense inner exploration that he felt compelled to express, and the powerful energy of those works continues to affect people throughout the world. In shying away from craft and revision in writing, he was digging away at the very core of himself, as if that were where he would find..... More
[Item #4299]
Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen Peoples Press, n/d Circa 1972. First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The first thing one would remark on meeting Kenneth Patchen is that he is the living symbol of protest." (from "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light" by Henry Miller, pg. 51) A compilation of poems by Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), the brilliant American poet, artist & pacifist who was an inspiring influence on the Beat Generation/ San Francisco..... More
[Item #4423]
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2005. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In the spring of 1884, Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. In this bold and colorful narrative, veteran writer Mark Perry reconstructs the heady..... More
[Item #4406]
Detroit, MI; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; n/p: Wayne State University Press; University of Utah Press; University of Washington Press; n/p, 1957-1969. Reprints; First Printings. Stapled Sheets; Folded Broadside. Four articles & broadside signed by Robert Peters. A miscellaneous bundle of early articles, reviews & a broadside by Robert Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed & prolific American poet, playwright, performer, critic, scholar & educator: (1) Reprint from Modern Language Quarterly..... More
[Item #4231]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions Et Al. 2011. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "I liked readin' writin' n' arithmetic, but I never liked school and its silly rules. I never wanted to be around shitty-assed, snot nosed, dirty finks and bullies all day. I was never a joiner or a team player. I was spared "kindergarten"- invented by some German guy to make teachers the gardeners of the state..... More
[Item #3897]
New York, NY: Free Press/ Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2006. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a...... More
[Item #4421]
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented- until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformation in music history that can be traced to..... More
[Item #4080]
New York, NY: Semiotext(e) in Conjunction with MIT Press, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. "I assured my new acquaintance, Alden Van Buskirk, or Van for short--he was still blinking and rubbing his eyes in bewilderment--that the strong ale was bound to bring relief. I noticed Van was reading Whitman, Eliot, Hart Crane…also Dylan Thomas. / Early in spring of 1960, when Van was about to graduate, we met again, this time..... More
[Item #4928]
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1941. Second Printing. Hardcover. With vintage gift inscription; later gift inscription to Thomas Rain Crowe. "No flower has been so popular in the past as the rose, and, in spite of the introduction of other plants from all parts of the world, it retains its pre-eminence (sic). It is therefore easy to understand why it figures so largely in literature and art and plays its..... More
[Item #3838]
Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than five decades after the publication of his first bestselling book, Hunter S. Thompson remains a cultural icon. A steady stream of publications and films have told his remarkable story, several in detail. Most of these accounts--which feature his drug and alcohol consumption, gun fetish, and "fortified compound"--are centered in Woody Creek, Colorado, where Thompson lived from 1966 until..... More
[Item #4926]
Athens, GA: Maypop Books, 1987. First Edition Thus; Second Expanded Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by translator Coleman Barks to Thomas Rain Crowe, & with hand-written Rumi quote. "Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is a Master of ecstatic groundedness. "Both worlds are here." This new collection of quatrains, odes, and long rambles through the Mathnawi is full of animal fables, insect fables, (There's even a vegetable fable, the chickpea poem.) jokes, stories..... More
[Item #3778]
New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years is an unprecedented look at the formative years of America's best-known and best-loved writer and humorist, a thorough and thoroughly delightful examination of the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from birth to marriage at age thirty-four- the years of wildly varied experience that helped form the bases of his great classics: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Tom..... More
[Item #4346]
Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "A great many books have been written about Jack Kerouac, and the Net is awash with those who claim some sort of soul-mating with him. I knew him in his prime until his death, from 1947 to 1969, but I am mystified by the increase in his popularity generation after generation since...(Kerouac) responded emotionally to any stimuli, within or without, and..... More
[Item #4155]
Goteborg, Sweden: Eight Millimetres, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "Against Control collects together a selection of essays by author Jack Sargeant that explore the multiple influences of William S. Burroughs and various aspects of the wider Burroughs' universe. In these essays aspects of Burroughs' work, and especially his speculative ideas, are presented through their intersections with sound, with imagined histories, and with mythologies. Incorporating ideas from the philosophies of libertarian pirates..... More
[Item #4711]
New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "Bowles wrote his parents about the beatnik invasion: 'Every day one sees more beards and filthy blue jeans, and the girls look like escapees from lunatic asylums, with white lipstick and black smeared around their eyes, and matted hair hanging around their shoulders. The leaders of the 'movement' have moved their headquarters here and direct their activities from here. Allen..... More
[Item #3898]
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Michael Skau, Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (his place of work since the Fall of 1973) has written book-length academic studies (another book-length work, on Ferlinghetti, is titled "Constantly Risking Absurdity: The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti" was published in 1989) as well as numerous articles on other Beat Generation writers. These articles survey sections of the..... More
[Item #4202]
Madley, UK: Five Seasons Press, 1984. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers. "I live on land in the Sierra Nevada of Alta California, continent of Turtle Island, which is somewhat wild and not terribly good. The indigenous people there, the Nisenan or Southern Maidu, were almost entirely displaced or destroyed during the first decade of the gold rush. Consequently we have no one to teach us which parts of..... More
[Item #4948]
Heidelberg, Germany: Ober-Limbo Verlag, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "Travels in a holy holy land, sojourns in a skid row hotel, larceny & poetic license, a secret Victorian stoner, raptures of an impoverished consumptive young poet, the strange resurrection of old engravings, a gathering of far-flung fragments, moving a ton of weed. Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Akbar del Piombo, Samuel Greenberg, Jerry Kamstra and someone else." (back cover) A collection of..... More
[Item #4330]
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. "Some time ago, The New Yorker printed a piece by E.B. White about a small book called The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., the late professor of English at Cornell. Mr. White recalled that in his own student days it was known on campus as the little book, and paid tribute to the author for his devotion to..... More
[Item #4600]
New York, NY; n/p: Lyle Stuart; Land's End Press; Oxford University Press, n/d; 1969; 1996. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Three versions of a risqué satire of Elizabethan-era conversation by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author. First published anonymously in 1881, we offer three later editions of this work: (1) 1601...Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors..... More
[Item #4426]
Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1980. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. The three classic novels by Mark Twain (1835-1910) featuring his immortal character Tom Sawyer in one volume, along with another edition of one of the three works: (1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective, published for the Iowa Center for Textual..... More
[Item #4351]