Berkeley, CA: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet & noted founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. There are few, if any widely-known connections between Cornell University in Ithaca, NY — and this, even though several visionary non-Beat authors have taught there to great effect: have been received, warmly by talented students who are eager-to-contribute; by responsive readers, and responsive..... More

Troy, NY, USA: Black Fig Press, 2023. Limited Second Edition; First American Edition. Sewn Sheets. Inscribed, signed, & numbered by Ronald Baatz and publisher Andra Sheinkopf. Ronald Baatz is a notoriously elusive poet who has been featured in literary journals like Wormwood Review alongside other legendary Beat-&-Beyond writers like Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the so-called “poet laureate of American Lowlife,” and Gerald Locklin (1941-2021), the former poetry editor at Chiron Review..... More

Baltimore, MD: E Pod, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A rare literary magazine edited & founded by Kirby Malone and Marshall Reese centered around the experimental art scene in Baltimore, MD and its inclusive embrace of experimental poetries. That embrace is on view in E Pod #1, the first in the series, which features a bevy of sound and experimental poetries sure to impress even the most exacting avant-gardist. A...... More

London, England: Ignu Publications, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “The Sonnets were first published in 1964 by a small press, then they were picked up in 1968 or '69, I forget which, by Grove. […] It was very difficult to get this work written, although it wasn't difficult to write it. It was a long time coming and I didn't really know what was coming, but then it..... More

Cambridge, MA: n/p, c. 2000. First Edition. Signed twice by Daniel Bosch. “Pity, the lump in your own through | Self-pious Pity; Pity the wishbone. | Pity, the self-employed esthetician | Contracted for us by the government. | Pity, the shingle. Pity, the physician. | Pity, sipped from an inverted paper cone.” (First stanza, Homage to Christopher Smart, Daniel Bosch). A self-published collection of poetry by Daniel Bosch, an American..... More

San Francisco, CA: Caffe Malvina, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring appx. 11 x 14”) advertising a poetry reading at the cult-famous Malvina Coffee House — which, during the mid-to-late 1970s, was mobilized as a venue by the authors of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. The layout and format for MCH posters was standardized: center alignment reigned, and the venue title was always found floating like a thundercloud..... More

Oconomowoc Lake, WI: Stooge Magazine, 1972. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (measuring appx. 8.5” x 11") by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American author described by some as “the poet laureate of American Lowlife.” While Your Devoted VP-of-Operations here at Third Mind Books feels this is somewhat misleading when it comes to claims or critical contentions, it can be of use when thinking about Bukowski, however limited. Key to..... More

Tempe, AZ: Synaesthesia Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "With the exception of (Lawrence Ferlinghetti's) Poet as Fisherman, all the work here has never been published, to my knowledge. I wanted to do it in part for Steve (Fisher), in part as a tribute to (Charles) Bukowski, and because I think it is all quality work. As far as legalities, I don't know...I do know that money is not..... More

Newcastle, England: King Ida's Watch Chain, 1965. First Printing. Packet in Envelope. An assembly of works by and about the great English Modernist poet, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) published in 1965. Besides Bunting, other famous poetic commentators on him also feature in this assembly: including Gael Turnbull (1928-2004), the great Scottish poet who participated, integrally in the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and 1970s; and Hugh Kenner (1923-2003), the great..... More

Brighton, England, UK: Urgency Press Rip Off Press, 1972. Limited Pirated Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by (pirate) publisher Roy Pennington. In 1965, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who is the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise, published TIME, his cut-up parody of the "American Century" 's flagship publication (along with LIFE & FORTUNE), a key work in WSB's life-long effort to subvert the powers-that-be establishment's control..... More

Brighton, UK & Seattle, WA: Unicorn Bookshop, 1969. Limited First Trade Edition. Sewn Binding. "don't listen to the words/ but listen to what I'm/ saying// like the shadows that you/ speak I know are meant to be-/ apples & roses" (second page, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Bill Butler (1934-1977), the legendary American-expatriate poet, publisher & bookseller. Butler founded the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England, which from the late..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Zelot Press, 1986. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by George F. Butterick to Albert Glover; & with typed note signed from Butterick to Glover. “Spiralled a lion of thin smoke toward the ceiling. / a camel, a dolphin–agh, why dramatize the foulness. / She crouched there rat-ready in her shift. Why / “shift”? It’s what the eyes do, underneath– / and on the underneath, palely pink..... More

Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Connexion, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This small press literary journal was published just across the river from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario. The table of contents describes Connexion as “Prose & Poetry for the Mind & Body,” though not much more information is available about the press or its mission. This second issue opens with the poem “Dying” by Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938), the acclaimed, much-honored..... More