(SOLD):BARANGHINI, Marcello. Get Ready: Periodico alternativo di musica rock.

(Milan, Italy): Casa Editrice Lo Spinello, 1971. First edition. 49cm tall. 36 pages. The scarce inaugural issue, No. 0, of this influential Italian underground counterculture periodical. The issue is devoted principally to rock music, psychedelic culture and drugs, and is notable for its highly original graphic design and unusual format. Contributors include Ines Curatolo, Barnaba Fornasetti, Giorgio Cerquetti, Lorenzo Vassallo, Enzo Manna and S.I.M.A. Contents include material on George Harrison and Hare Krishna, the underground revolution, Robert Crumb’s “Bo Bo Bolinski,” Frank Zappa, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Santana, the S.I.M.A. drug insert, MC5, Jeff Beck, Richard Alpert / Baba Ram Dass, LSD, the Miles Davis Group and Jimi Hendrix, together with comics and graphic material. A very good copy in joint shaped wrappers.