Berkeley, CA, USA: Wesley B. Tanner, 1988. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. “As I thought of her I fell asleep and a marvellous vision appeared to me. In my room I seemed to see a cloud the colour of fire, and in the cloud a lordly figure, frightening to behold, yet in himself, it seemed to me, he was filled with a marvellous joy.” (lines 12-15) Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), often referred..... More

London, England, UK: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public….When a man should marry? A young..... More

New York, NY: Liveright, 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. A volume of poems by Hart Crane (1899-1932), the short-lived, high-impact American Modernist poet best known for collections like White Buildings (1926) and his major experimental long poem, The Bridge (1930). Crane was born in Ohio and attended high school in Cleveland before dropping out and heading to New York. One fact about Crane Your Devoted VP-of-Operations here at Third Mind Books..... More

New York, NY, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For a writer whose productive career lasted only twenty years and whose energy was prodigally expended on other things than writing, (F.) Scott Fitzgerald wrote an astonishing amount. Of the more than one hundred and fifty short stories he wrote during those twenty years, only about a quarter were collected during his lifetime; a few new ones were..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. “It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now.” —"Barry Lyndon”, Stanley Kubrick. Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer who, throughout most of his oeuvre, was primarily interested in exploring bourgeois decadence and the faux-intellectual milieu of the wealthy..... More

Cleveland, OH: mother/asphodel, 1966. First Edition Thus. Softcover. With promotional, letterpress postcard and manuscript advert (with drawing) by Merle Hoyleman. A volume of poems by George Oppen (1908-1984), the great American poet affiliated with Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) and the Objectivist movement in literary modernism. Discrete Series was first published by the legendary Objectivist Press in 1934 at the height of the Objectivist Movement’s influence. The Objectivists, while all poetical descendants..... More

London, England, UK: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. This collection includes nearly every major work by English novelist and illustrator William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Thackeray was a satirist, parodist, & humorist born in British India, and he arrived in England at the age of 4 after his father died, leaving his mother in India. Thackeray squandered his inheritance on gambling and unsuccessful newspapers endeavors, but once..... More

Philadelphia, PA: World Poetry Inc., 1982. First Printing. Journal in Loose Sheets. The May/June 1982 issue of the The American Poetry Review, edited by David Bonnano (1949-2017) & Kathleen Sheeder (1956-2017) featuring a section by the late, great American writer and critic, Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024) on John Cage (1912-1992), Modernist collage, & Ezra Pound (1885-1972) [including asides on Henri Gaudier-Brezka (1891-1915)]; as well as several works (and/or) critical writing on..... More

New York, NY, USA: LIFE Inc., 1938. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Just in case Europe should talk itself into war, prophetic pictures of army maneuvers poured last week into the U. S. Old pictures of France’s Maginot Line (LIFE, Jan 3) were dug up to report the fact that jittery France had rushed 350,000 men and its big guns into these border fortifications. German papers expressed “surprise” and German soldiers..... More

Chicago, IL: Harriet Monroe, 1924. First Edition. Wrappers in Sewn Binding. This vintage (just-about century-old as of this writing) number of the venerable "Grande Dame" of American poetry journals edited & published by the legendary poet-publisher-patron Harriet Monroe (1860-1936) is a "Prize Award Number" (front cover) with announcements of prizes awarded under Poetry's auspices, & several of the winning poems (pgs. 102-113). Also with contributions by J(ames) A(llan) Mackereth (1871-1948)..... More

Kingswood, Surrey: Heinemann, 1958. First British Edition, First Printing. “The American edition of The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, edited by Elizabeth Nowell, is a volume of over 800 pages. It contains so much extraneous matter of little interest to readers in this country or requiring such extensive annotation that a careful selection of the letters seemed desirable. The omissions consist mainly of business details relating to a lawsuit in which..... More

Rumford, ME: Rumford Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Staplebound. This 90-year-old relic is emblematic of early small-town America. Established as a sleepy farming community in the 18th century, the town of Rumford in Oxford County, Maine, was officially incorporated in the year 1800. The Androscoggin River and the Rumford Falls are the center of the community as a hydroelectric power source for the milling industry; the surge of population growth..... More

Lincoln, NE: Federal Writers' Project, 1939. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "The present collection continues the recital of the farmers' grievances against the railroads (signalized by Jay Gould, John Thurston, and Mark Hanna) and the banking and political interests allied with them. Through high freight and interest rates, coupled with ruinously low prices for farm products, monopoly and speculation were dispossessing the farmer and arousing him to a reform campaign that..... More