Gerard Malanga's "Six Portraits" (1975)
New York City: Nadada Editions (book, monograph), 1975. 4" x 4.125", 16 pages, stapled wraps. SIX PORTRAITS by Gerard Malanga, a diminutive (~4" x ~4") photographic monograph published by Nadada Editions (New York City) in 1975. 600 copies were released; the first 50 were signed and numbered by Malanga. This includes portraits of William S. Burroughs (the same as the cover image), Candy Darling, Allen Ginsberg, Mick Jagger, Anne Waldman, and John Wieners. This specific copy, acquired from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books (Seattle, WA), is an unnumbered copy, inscribed in the year of release from Malanga to Burt Britton (1933–2018), the eccentric New York bookseller and collector. For many years, Britton worked at the Strand Book Store, described himself as ". . . the greatest reader alive, at least in fiction," and knew many well-known authors. Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender.
