New York, NY: Angel Hair, 1967. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “I am thinking about Benedetta” is the title of this / Poem, although the feeling of leather on flesh is exquisite / And the tight blue jeans are found soaking / Wet on the grass. But he can’t get you / Out of his mind in the facial / Expression that tells you so. / […] / Nothing will..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Rivoli Review, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is the second (of two) issues of the rare-&-elusive Rivoli Review, edited by the Utah-born San Francisco Renaissance poet, Richard Duerden (1927-2000). While comparatively unknown among those frequently associated with the San Francisco Renaissance, Duerden bears the echoic Beat-historical distinction of having once served in the Merchant Marines (e.g., like Jack Kerouac [1922-1969], among several other great..... More

New York, NY, USA: Angel Hair, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Look, how the rain fallen through the night/ Leaves the woods hot, moist and calm,/ how the bird skims across the grass/ and no car in sight,/ waiting your return." (John Wieners, "Invitation au Voyage II," first stanza, unpaginated) The third number of the poetry journal co-edited, published & with contributions by Anne Waldman (b. 1945), the acclaimed poet-performer..... More

London, England: Love Books / Barry Miles, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Plymell. Long Hair Number 1 was published in 1965 by Love Books in London by Barry Miles, manager of the Indica Bookshop & Gallery in London & later bibliographer & biographer of William S. Burroughs. This quintessential counterculture publication contains contributions from a panoply of notable Beat & New York poets. As the title portends, "Long..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Numbered Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Gerard Malanga. An early volume by Gerard Malanga, poet & member of Andy Warhol's "factory" group at the height of the 1960s counter-culture, dedicated to fellow poets, including Leonard Cohen & Charles Henri Ford. One of 200 hardcover copies numbered & signed by Malanga, this is copy No. 80/200. Handsomely bound..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered (Twice) by Gerard Malanga. "Eight of the ten poems were selected from my most recent work-in-progress, 'The Notebooks.' Through numerous revisions I have given the individual poems by this time a perfection of which I was obviously incapable earlier. For through the process of revision I have learned to differentiate what's false to my poetry from..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered by Gerard Malanga, with: Original Manuscript Poem. “Dearest Cristina, how to read Olson: there is nothing that did / not interest him. As a poet, moreover, he would naturally look / for chances to use his dramatic, lyric & didactic powers. So / with his structure firmly determined by its basic economy Olson / was free..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This July 1974 number of the monthly literary journal published by the venerable Black Sparrow Press is entirely dedicated to Gerard Malanga, poet & important member of the Andy Warhol "factory" scene at the height of the 1960s counterculture & beyond. There are seven poems dated during 1973-74, composed in Boston & other locations in Massachusetts. A nice little..... More

Lincoln, MA: The Penmaen Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Gerard Malanga. "the life of the one real dream/ is made of arrivals and departures/ is made of something not there/ held together by nothing/ the dream we will never remember returns" ("Dream Without Sequence," pg. 9) A collection of 24 poems on 24 pages by Gerard Malanga, the acclaimed poet, photographer & key member of Andy Warhol's..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Each issue of this literary journal published by the legendary Black Sparrow Press "...presents the work of a single author. The poet is prophet."(from front cover statement) This September 1976 number is devoted to a single work entitled "Devotion" dated April 16 of that year by Gerard Malanga, poet & important associate of Andy Warhol at the "factory" at..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed Twice by Poet-&-Photographer, Gerard Malanga. "Ten Years After: The Selected Benedetta Poems" is a 1977 concept-compilation by Gerard Malanga--the venerable poet, photographer & key associate of Andy Warhol at the “Factory” during the 1960s. The work is a sort-of ‘history in verse' orbiting around his relationship with Italian actress-&-model, Benedetta Barzini--perhaps the woman Malanga wrote most lovingly of..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Numbered & signed by Gerard Malanga. A volume of works by Gerard Malanga, poet & key associate of Andy Warhol at the height of the 1960s counterculture & beyond. Consisting of poems divided into three sections, & the title work, in two forms: A poem; & a longer prose work subtitled by the author as "an experiment in autobiography."..... More

New York, NY: Nadada, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second & last number of the exceedingly rare & significant literary-art journal edited & with contributions by Timothy Baum, Robert Cordier & Gerard Malanga, the esteemed poet & photographer who at the time of this issue was a key associate of Andy Warhol. Baum's specialty in his subsequent writing & curatorial career has been Dada & Surrealism, & this..... More