Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The second vintage number of the acclaimed literary & art journal "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring an insightful, in-depth interview with primary Beat-&-Beyond author Paul Bowles conducted by Oliver Evans; a diaristic prose-poem essay..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

Vojo Skyline Press, 1991. First Edition Lettered. Broadside. A broadside of remarks about painting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, painter, poet and proprietor of City Lights Books. Measuring 8-1/2" x 11" - Offset printed on yellow card stock. Reproduced in Ferlinghetti's handwriting. One of 26 lettered copies. This is copy "B". With reproduced holograph signature of author. As New. More

Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful book in oblong format, with photographs of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometimes in the company of Beat luminaries including William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, interspersed with his poetry. In very fine condition with only very slight rubbing to dj covers & slight scraping of top & bottom board edges at spine. Very Fine. More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1955. Stated Sixteenth Printing of May, 1971. Softcover. The debut book of poems from City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Pictures of the Gone World" marked the appearance of a bold new voice in American literature whose creative contributions and unifying spirit would permanently alter literary history. Drawing from his student days in France and his experience exploring Surrealist, Symbolist, Romanticist and Modernist bodies of..... More

Boston, MA: Impressions Workshop, Inc., 1967. Limited Edition. 27 1/2" x 20 1/2" Broadside. This is #29/200. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; signed & numbered by illustrator. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap. This large beautiful broadside, one of a limited edition of 200, features a short poem by legendary Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a quintessentially hip, humorous & irreverent parody of a traditional prayer. Boldly signed by..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "Unfair Arguments with Existence" marked Ferlinghetti's first published foray into the world of theatre, and featured seven plays reflective of his vision for "A New Theatre." Acknowledging some debt to Surrealist martyr Antonin Artaud among others, Ferlinghetti composed these seven pieces for the stage. This particular copy can be easily identified as the first edition by..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. "Unfair Arguments with Existence" marked Ferlinghetti's first published foray into the world of theatre, and featured seven plays reflective of his vision for "A New Theatre." Acknowledging some debt to Surrealist martyr Antonin Artaud among others, Ferlinghetti composed these seven pieces for the stage. This particular copy can be easily identified as the first edition by the publisher's omission of..... More

London, England: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Published by English publisher MacGibbon & Kee in 1967, this volume is a selection of poems comprised of contents from "Pictures of the Gone World," "A Coney Island of the Mind," and "Starting from San Francisco"; along with "The Situation in the West," "After the Cries of Birds," and "Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow," --all billed under..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1967 (1961). Enlarged Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. "Starting from San Francisco" is the third release from one of the formative fathers of the San Francisco Renaissance, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This particular edition is the first enlarged paperback edition, adding the poem "Berlin" among others to the collection. "These poems of voyage are autobiographical in that they grew out of Ferlinghetti's travels in South America..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Published in 1969, Ferlinghetti's politically-charged populist hymn was yet another audacious stab into the heart of military-industrial complex America and its corrupt and powerful perpetrators. With the text set in Ferlinghetti's own hand, "Tyrannus Nix" provides a poignant, era-specific glance at the backstage debauchery that has poisoned the American political process in a way that curiously echoes our current era..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1971. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "This single long poem of intimately linked verses is not a translation, although the echoes of Japanese poetry and Tibetan Buddhist texts are many. Starting out after Basho but meeting Milarapa and Dante among others en route, the poet finds his own way, toward a kind of American mantra." (back cover) As the title implies, Ferlinghetti took cues from..... More