Shuffle Boil : A Magazine of Poets and Music, Issue Nos. 1-4Meltzer, David, and Steve Dickison, eds.
Berkeley: Listening Chamber, 2002-2003. 4 vols. Saddle-stapled in glossy printed wraps, 10-3/4 x 7-7/8 in. 48, 72, 72, and 72pp. Light crease to bottom fore-corner of No. 1, else all volumes about fine. First four issues (of six total, the final two being issued as...
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103 Lyrics of Cole PorterPorter, Cole; Fred Lounsberry
First edition of this collection of lyrics by the celebrated American composer, as selected, and with an introduction and commentary by, Fred Lounsberry. NY: Random House, 1954. First printing (stated). Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in. xxxii, 224pp., with index. Gold cloth over black boards stamped...
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West Side Story : A MusicalLaurents, Arthur; Leonard Bernstein; Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins
First book edition of the script for the beloved American musical play, a modern take on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, featuring lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (in his Broadway debut), music by Leonard Bernstein, and direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins. The musical was nominated...
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Ani Maamin: A Song Lost and Found AgainWiesel, Eli and Darius Milhaud
Limited edition of this text for a cantata commissioned by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, as signed by both Wiesel and composer Darius Milhaud. NY: Random House, 1973. From the "special edition" of 750 copies signed by both Wiesel and Milhaud on limitation page...
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Paradise : The New Order Fanzine, Issues I-VSmith, David, and Oliver Cain, eds.
Macclesfield, England: The Paradise Fanzine, 1989-90. Five volumes, all saddle-staped in printed colored-paper wraps; 8.25 x 6 in.; various paginations from 26 to 36pp. Although not stated, Factoryrecords.org gives a print run of 1200 copies per issue. All issues fine save no. 2, whose pink...
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First edition of this biography and musicological analysis of the Mississippi guitarist Charley Patton (1891–1934), known as the "Father of the Delta Blues" for the enormous influence he exerted on succeeding generations of blues musicians. Fahey (1939–2001) was himself an enormously influential steel-string guitar player,...
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Inscribed first edition of this 1979 collection of essays, mesostics, and other procedurally generated writings by the avant-garde American composer. The title work is a text-score in which chance operations are used to systematically deconstruct the journals of Henry David Thoreau—a tactic born of Cage's...
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 257pp, indexed. Green cloth. Top and bottom of textblock lightly foxed. Small split to cloth at bottom rear corner, which nonetheless remains straight and sharp. Light offsetting to front end paper. Unclipped "$10.95" jacket shows moderate rubbing and...
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