New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. “In Stevan Weine’s illuminating study, madness is no mere metaphor. Using Allen Ginsberg’s medical records and those of his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, Best Minds explores the secrets of Ginsberg’s experiences with madness, providing a refreshing new look at his most famous poem, ‘Howl’ and expanding what we know of the poet’s life. Ginsberg, who consented for Naomi’s lobotomy, would speak..... More

Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop Press, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “PROSE CONTRIBUTION TO CUBAN REVOLUTION is an important statement on consciousness-expansion by the major American poet Allen Ginsberg. Originally written in 1961 from Greece, the essay first appeared in the 1st (and only) issue of PA’LANTE magazine, published in 1962 and long out of print. This Artists’ Workshop Press reprint makes the statement available to the poet’s 1966 audience, at..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Since this work is not done posthumously, I've had the liberty to annotate each verse regarding appropriate cultural references which few critics have examined...I've lived with and enjoyed Howl for three decades, it has become a social and poetical landmark, notorious at worst illuminative at best...it seems helpful in this fourth decade of the poem's use to clarify its literary..... More

Chicago, IL: Poetry Foundation, 2016. First Printing. This number of the venerable literary journal edited by Don Share features "New York to San Fran," a lengthy, most exemplary poem by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. This theretofore unpublished work was included in the then about-to-be-published posthumous collection Wait Until I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems. Curiously, Ginsberg's year of death is mistakenly stated as "1999" at his entry..... More

Tokyo, Japan: Presspop Music in Conjunction with Audika Records, 2010. First Pressing. 10" LP Record. “Arthur Russell and Allen Ginsberg first met in the early 70’s in San Francisco through mutual interests in music, poetry, and Buddhism. Drawn to each other’s creative energy, Russell would soon start to provide Ginsberg with musical backing during his poetry readings. And in the summer of 1971, “Pacific High Studio Mantras” was recorded as..... More

New York, NY: Full Court Press; Ginsberg Recordings, 1975; 2012. Second Printing; First Edition Thus. Softcover; LP. “Although I studied Piano & Violin unsuccessfully a year in the ‘thirties, and sang in bathrooms and on bridges solitary in the next decades, I did not begin chanting until visit to India and Japan in 1963, where impressed by Prajnaparamita Sutra & Hare Krishna Mantra, I borrowed Peter Orlovsky’s tiny Benares Harmonium..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Grossman Publishers Inc./ Cape Golliard, 1968. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Switch on lights yellow as the sun/ in the bedroom.../ the gaudy poet dead Frank O'Hara's bones/ under grass/ An emptiness at 8PM in the Cedar Bar/ Throngs of drunken/ guys talking about paint/ & lofts, and Pennsylvania youth./ Klein attacked by his heart & chattering Frank/ stopped forever-" ("City Midnight Junk Strains (for..... More

New York, NY: Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Lightning's blue glare fills Oklahoma plains,/ the train rolls east/ casting yellow shadow on grass/ Twenty years ago/ approaching Texas/ I saw/ sheet lightning/ cover Heaven's corners/ Feed Storage Elevators in gray rain mist,/ checkerboard light over sky-roof/ same electric lightning South/ follows this train/ Apocalypse prophesied- / the Fall of America/ signaled from Heaven-" (from "Part One/..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. New Edition (First Edition Thus). Softcover. "A naked lunch is natural to us,/ we eat reality sandwiches./ But allegories are so much lettuce./ Don't hide the madness." ("On Burroughs' Work," final stanza, pg. 40) The fourth collection of poetry by Allen Ginsberg in the iconic Pocket Poets Series issued by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books. Originally published in 1963 & printed in the..... More

New York, NY: Portents/ Gotham Book Mart, 1970. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were known only to each other, and these photos are candid shots they took to capture..... 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

Toronto, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. This is the first & notorious (see below) Canadian edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & described by him in a note preceding them as "...compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This fascinating assemblage of documents, a scrapbook montage of personal anecdote, reflection, audio transcription and objectivist reportage, provides a useful historical period reconstruction of the socioliterary sub-terrain of London in the later 1960s. It is also the honest and often comical account of an earnest attempt to capture on film- and in words- the magnetic impact of..... More