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 sheet. Fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with two very short closed tears at head of spine. Incidental rubbing to one corner of box, else also fine.
The deluxe signed edition of this collection of mesostic poems, which Cage delivered as Harvard’s Charles Eliot Northern Lectures in 1988-1989. One cassette documents Cage’s reading of Mesostic IV, the other a Q&A section from one of his lectures. Nice copy.
