Collection: Music

London: Rider & Co., 1931. First edition. 159pp; frontispiece. 8vo; green cloth; lacking the jacket. Gilt spine titles dulled; offsetting to endpapers; small dent to fore-edge of front board. About very good. A collection of transmissions through the medium of automatic writing to American born... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Signed by Cage to half-title. 452pp. 4to. Gray cloth stamped in silver on front board and spine; dust jacket. Housed in a two-piece matching cloth box with two 60-minute audio cassettes in cases, and the original blurb/price... More

NY: Amerling Hollander, 1966. [16]pp; b&w illus. 4to; side-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Light crease along spine; mild toning to wraps. Very good. Apparently the third and fourth installments of this self-published periodical primarily devoted to transcribing the lyrics and music of various songs of... More

Austin, TX: Doug Hanners and Deron Bissett, 1975. 32pp.; illus. 4to; saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Very good, with moderate wear to wraps, diagonal crease to back lower corner. First issue of this irregularly published music magazine of music from Texas; this issue devoted to 1960s... More

San Francisco: Valhalla Music, 1967. [4]pp.; illus. Single sheet folded to form four 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 in panels. Silk-screened, in color to front and rear; front cover featuring a graphic of a marijuana plant growing out of an army helmet. Very good or better, with... More

NY: Heresies Collective, 1980. First edition. Quarto; printed card wraps. 96pp.; b&w illus. Tape reinforcements (unnecessary) to head & heel of spine; light damp-staining to base of front cover; offsetting to front cover verso from laid-in newsprint. Good to very good; an excellent reading/reference copy.... More

NY: The Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. 304pp. Octavo; brown boards backed with black cloth stamped in brown and gilt; red topstain; dust jacket. Moderate shelfwear (board just showing through at bottom front tip); a few spots of soiling to textblock base. Unclipped jacket with... More

NY: The John Day Company, 1975. Second printing. 206pp.; index. Octavo; black cloth boards; white spine titles; dust jacket. Mild shelfwear, bumping to spine ends. Else near fine in a very good, unclipped jacket with several short closed edge tears, toning to flaps and interior.... More

Santa Fe: Burning Books, 2011. First edition. 150pp; duodecimo; perfect-bound in illustrated wraps. Very good or better, with light edge and corner wear. A terse and hardboiled mystery novel by American composer and librettist Robert Ashley (1930-2014), notable in particular for Perfect Lives and his... More

Tokyo: Yoroshita Music Co., 1980. First edition. Small 4to. Perfect-bound in illustrated French flap wrappers. 64pp.; illus. Very good, with light rubbing and wear to edges. Lacking the original obi. Attractively designed and heavily illustrated book celebrating the 1980 world tour, "From Tokyo to Tokyo,"... More

Tokyo: Keibunsha, 1988. First edition. Small 4to. Signature-bound in wraps; dust jacket.  [78]pp.; illus. Mild edgewear; light soiling to edges of wraps. Very good or better, lacking the original obi. Photobook featuring stylized portraits in black-and-white and color of influential Japanese avant-pop musician Jun Togawa... More

[El Cerrito, CA], [Ray Nelson], 1985-1999. 2" black vinyl commercial folder with three-clasp metal binding; 73 clear plastic sleeves filled to display on both sides with various clippings and ephemera. Very good, with minimal wear to binder, occasional toning and offsetting to contents. An obsessively... More

A significant association copy inscribed by Cage to his patron Betty Freeman, marking a pivotal moment in the career of one of America's preeminent postmodern composers. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. First edition. Square 8vo. Black cloth, blind-stamped to front board; white and bronze... More

NY: Beehive Press & Sisyphus Prses, 2000. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Illustrated blue card wraps bound with black plastic comb. 76 leaves, printed rectos only. Very good or better, with light corner wear. A collection of writings (mostly poetry) by musicians, with contributions... More

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... More

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... More

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... More

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... More

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... More

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,... More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. First edition. Quarto. Ix, 187pp. Black cloth boards, white spine titles; dust jacket. Light foxing to edges of textblock and sporadically to interior; boards lightly shelfworn; mild musty odor. In a price-clipped jacket showing moderate rubbing and wear, particularly... More

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... More