New York, NY: Croton Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. “Time is ironic (at Black Mountain there was no time); point of view from the outside world I was there for four years and four and a half summers in a row….When you went between the low white paint-chipped and tilting fences, with the chipped black and white calmly bewitched little sign, that in one of the biggest understatements of my..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1975. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Transcripts of two "impromptu Lectures" (Preface) given by Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990), the celebrated & prolific British-Cosmopolitan novelist & travel writer, best known for his trilogy of autobiographical novels under the umbrella title of "The Alexandria Quartet." The title lecture & "Propaganda and Impropaganda" were delivered during the 1970s in California, & describe his wide experiences in Greece & much elsewhere..... More

Berkeley, CA: Sand Dollar Books/ Jack Shoemaker, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Theodore Enslin to Thomas Rain Crowe. A book of prose-poetic diary entries by Theodore Enslin (1925-2011), the venerable, prolific poet who was first associated with Cid Corman's Origin magazine & press, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, & the Black Mountain & Objectivist Schools. Enslin studied music, & his poetry is considered to be distinguished with a...... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "Richard Farina's tragically short odyssey began in Brooklyn in 1937. Its places included Cornell University, Paris, Northern Ireland, Havana--once while Castro's army was entering the city--cities and countries across America and Europe. Its roles included poet, composer, IRA Revolutionary, singer, dulcimer-player, novelist--always developing and refining his own unique insights into our world and himself. Son of an Irish mother and a...... More

New York, NY: Doubleday; New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1960; 2019. First Edition, Second Printing; First Softcover Edition, Eighth Printing. Hardcover; Softcover. The final novel published during the long lifetime of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), together with an early classic in one offering: (1) Little Boy: A Novel (2019), hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first edition as stated on copyright page, second printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. "In this unapologetically..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1986. First Printing. Softcover. "When, in the spring of 1981, five years after I'd written them, I started to try to edit down my original Spanish journals from over a thousand pages to less than a hundred, I found Der Herr Professor in me creating a purely political literary book, selectively discarding anything but the lightning flicker political backdrop that was omnipresent in Spain..... More

Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852. First Edition, Mixed Issue. Hardcover. Offered here is the Ralph Waldo Emerson-edited, love-laborious compendium of “memoirs” by & about Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a central organizing force-&-figure both in American Transcendentalism as a movement, and in the greater Concord/Boston area, writ large. Now, to the matter at hand: the “problem” of discovering what it is (once and forever) that makes a First, Second, Third..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. With owner's signature & marginalia of Clayton Eshleman. "...Genet's second novel, having been written in La Sante and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers. Like that first work, Miracle of the Rose was written in the solitude of a prison cell, on the pieces of white paper the penal authorities furnish the convicts for..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1964. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First U.S. edition of Jean Genet's journal of his life among street outcasts in Barcelona after deserting the Foreign Legion. A classic work first published in France in 1949 by a legendary writer whose life paralleled the Beats & later intersected with them, especially when he covered the infamous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago alongside William S. Burroughs..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Revised, Expanded Edition Thus. Softcover. "No matter where Jack went he always knew he'd return to Lowell, the town he hated and loved, that he felt secure in, the one place he could never really leave-" (from "Part Three: A Note on Kerouac's City," pg. 59) This is the chronicle by Barry Gifford of his visit to Lowell, Massachusetts, the birthplace &..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1994. Advance Reading Copy/ Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Mikal Gilmore. "I have a story to tell. It is a story of murders: murders of the flesh, and of the spirit; murders born of heartbreak, of hatred, of retribution. It is the story of where those murders begin, of how they take form and enter our actions, how they transform our lives, how their..... 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