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E.G. COMMUNIQUE / E.G. Newsletter [Vol. 1, Issues 1, 2, 3]
New York: EG Records, Inc., 1979, 1980. First Edition. Wraps. 4tos. Stapled wraps. Three issues. Minor edgewear, with some faint spotting to front cover of Issue 2 only. Very good plus overall. First three issues of the E.G. Records Newsletter, founded to promote the label's artists following the January '79...
![Original Poster for "afro/rock night with Assagai" at Hull University]. Afro Rock, Assagai](/pictures/thumb/22826.jpg?v=1561473078)
[Original Poster for "afro/rock night with Assagai" at Hull University]
Hull: Hull University, [1971]. First Edition. Poster silk-screened in blue, gold, and red. Mild wear, creasing. Some rubbing. Else bright and sound. Very good. Original poster for an Afro Rock event at Hull University, featuring one of the most important bands of the movement, Assagai. Afro Rock, which had its...
THE LIFE OF PHILIDOR: Musician and Chess-Player
New York: Da Capo, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. Near fine. Small scuff to cloth of front cover. Trace wear to extremities. Else bright, clean, and tight. A sharp copy. Unabridged reproduction of the original 1863 Philadelphia edition. With a Supplementary Essay by Tassilo Von Heydebrand Und Der Lasa. 156pp.
DANCE OF DAYS: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital
New York: Akashic Books, (2009). First Edition. Wraps. Square 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. near fine. Some mld shelf-wear. But clean, sound and bright throughout. Revised edition of this indispensable history of the D.C. punk and hardcore scenes from two writers who were an integral part of the scene. Heavily illustrated...
![YOU WAS DANCIN NEED TO BE MARCHIN SO YOU CAN DANCE SOME MORE LATER ON [b/w] BETTER RED LET OTHERS...](/pictures/thumb/19811.jpeg?v=1561472532)
YOU WAS DANCIN NEED TO BE MARCHIN SO YOU CAN DANCE SOME MORE LATER ON [b/w] BETTER RED LET OTHERS BE DEAD
Newark: Peoples War, [1976]. First Edition. 7" record in white paper sleeve. Very good plus. INSCRIBED by Baraka for the founder of Detroit's Alternative Press: "For Ken Mikolowski / All the best / Amiri Baraka / 92." Disco/funk single influenced heavily by Marxism-Leninism & Maoism, with lyrics and production by Baraka.
POEM ABOUT MUSIC
Providence: Burning Deck, (1974). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. Very near fine. Trace foxing to fore edge, else clean and bright inside and out. Binding tight; appears unread. 64pp. Excellently designed book of verse by the English poet.
JAMZ Vol. 1, No. 5
Flushing, NY: [Jamz / Alan Betrock], (1972). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Original wraps. Mixed printing: offset and mimeo. Cover by Jay Kinney. Neatly and cleanly disbound from staples, the second (of two) is- sue we've handled with this fault, suggesting poor stapling or perhaps even as issued. Three- hole punched...
DISCO DANCING TONITE: Clubs: Dances: Fashion: Music
(London): Octopus, (1979). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Photographic wraps. Very good plus. Light touches of edgewear, hint of a crease to one corner. Two price stickers to front cover. Interior crisp, bright, and clean throughout. Binding sound. 80pp. Popular disco guide for a British audience. Illustrated throughout in color photographs...
FOR THE LION AND THE UNICORN IN THE OAK FORESTS OF FAUN: Roy Guest Presents Tyrannosaurus Rex in Concert with John Peel and Vytas Serelis - Sitar and David Bowie - Mime
London: Ranelagh Press, [1969]. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Yellow printed stapled wraps. Beginnings of staple rust. Light wear and faint creasing to covers, with some very neat red pen embellishment to floral borders. Single clean horizontal closed cut along upper edge of back cover, and next interior page, both...
FRESH FLY FLAVOR: Words and Phrases of the Hip-Hop Generation
Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1992. First Edition. Wraps. Square 8vo. Glossy textured wraps. Moderate wear to edges and corners. Gift inscription pennd to inside front cover. Very good. 96pp. By the first host of "Yo! MTV Raps," aka Fab 5 Freddy. Introduction by James Bernard. Generously illustrated in black and...
THE TENORS
New York: Macmillan, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth in printed dust jacket. Very good plus, in a very good DJ. Edges of jacket lightly toned. Small tear to half title. Else clean, bright, tight throughout. 203pp. Short biographic portraits of five opera tenors: Luciano Pavarotti, Richard Tucker...
THE OPERA OF VERDI: Volume One (From Oberto to Rogoletto), Volume II (From Il Trovatore to La Forza Del Destino), and Volume III (From Don Carlos to Falstaff) [Complete 3 Volume Set]
New York: Oxford University Press. Paperback. 8vos. 3 volumes. Trade paperbacks. Very good overall. Some general reading/shelfwear. Previous owner's name to first page of one volume. Else clean and sound throughout. Includes a description of each opera as well as its dramatic and historical origins, critical evaluations, summaries of the...
THE BLACK RIDER: The Casting of the Magic Bullets
[Hamburg]: (Thalia Theater), 1990. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 4to. Saddle-stapled white wraps. Light edgewear and corner scuffing; minor touches of soil. Pages faintly toned. Very good plus. Original program from the premiere of THE BLACK RIDER at Hamburg's Thalia Theater on March 31, 1990. The collaborative avant-garde theater project married...
![Photo Album Scrapbook of The Continental Dance Club]. Business, Dance Clubs](/pictures/thumb/14432.jpg?v=1561471861)
[Photo Album Scrapbook of The Continental Dance Club]
(San Diego, CA): The Continental Dance Club, [ca. 1958]. Wraps. 4to. Faux-leather covered plastic spiral bound album measuring approximately 10.5” x 8.75”. 7 plastic covered paper leaves with 9 black and white photographs, plus various clippings, business documents and scrap material loosely mounted and laid in. Covers torn at upper...
HOW MUSIC WORKS
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Padded white boards with removable paper label affixed to back cover, as issued. Corners bumped; traces of soil to edges. SIGNED by Byrne on title page. Very good plus. 345pp. In Byrne's words, "neither an autobiography nor a series of think...
I-VI
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth. Silver gilt to front, spine. In original illus- trated dust jacket. Unclipped. Deluxe, limited edition, SIGNED by Cage to half-title. Housed in a matching cloth, two-piece box which addition- ally holds two 60-minute audio cassettes. Mild shelf rubbing...
![Typescript Signed on Henry Cowell]. John CAGE](/pictures/thumb/12860.jpg?v=1561471801)
[Typescript Signed on Henry Cowell]
np: 1964. Wraps. 8.5" x 10" typescript. Single page, recto only. Single penciled correction in unknown hand. SIGNED by Cage. Probably trimmed at the top with no loss to text. Else very good. Typescript sent to Dick Higgins of Something Else Press of Cage's brief essay on the composer Henry...
THE WONDERFUL WIDOW OF EIGHTEEN SPRINGS: For Voice and Piano
New York: Henmar Press, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Folio, 11 x 14". Ozalid or diazo score, mechanically reproduced from holograph. Folded in sixths, residue of a paper clip to top edge. Toning, as common to the format. Else clean and sound. Very good. [1], 2-8. Apparent publisher's proof of Cage's...
10 + 2 : 12 AMERICAN TEXT SOUND PIECES
Berkeley: 1750 Arch Records, 1974. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album. Vinyl and album cover both near fine. Minor scuffing to album cover corners. Anthology of text-sound compositions, with work by Charles Amirkhanian, Clark Coolidge, John Cage, John Giorno, Anthony Gnazzo, Charles Dodge, Robert Ashley, Beth Anderson, Brion...
VIRGIL THOMSON: His Life and Music
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good + in like jacket. Toning to DJ spine. Mild wear to edges. Original price present, but bottom corner front flap clipped, as in all copies intended for the US market. Touches of rubbing to extremities of book. Clean and...
![Complete Set of Three Silk-Screened Posters for Cage's Performance of HPSCHD]. John CAGE, Lejaren...](/pictures/thumb/12883.jpg?v=1561471802)
[Complete Set of Three Silk-Screened Posters for Cage's Performance of HPSCHD]
Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, 1969. First Edition. Three large original silk-screened posters, each roughly 38" by 28" and on heavy "construction"-like paper. Occasional tiny edge tears. A small chip here and there. Some minute pin holes. Else bright and sharp. Easily near fine or better. HPSCHD (pronounced “harpsichord”) premiered at...
THE GUESTS GO IN TO SUPPER: John Cage / Robert Ashley / Yoko Ono / Laurie Anderson / Charles Amirkhanian / Michael Peppe / K Atchley
Oakland: Burning Books, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Wraps. Moderate shelfwear and minor creasing to corners. Unmarked interior. Very good plus. 384pp. First edition of 3000 copies. Compilation of texts and scores by seven American composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Charles Amirkhanian, Michael Peppe, and...
THE OTHER MOZART
Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. About fine in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Chmielarz to title page. Clean, bright, unmarred throughout. 97pp. Speculative biographical collection of verse about Maria Anne (Nannerl), who was Mozart's older sister.
![Original Poster for the Harkness Ballet]. Dance, Ballet](/pictures/thumb/16810.jpg?v=1561472078)
[Original Poster for the Harkness Ballet]
[1966]. Poster measuring 14" x 18.25" approx. mounted on stiff card, likely contemporaneous with original printing, likely for lobby or similar display. Possibly trimmed at lower edge; we've seen versions with venue info below. Printed offset in black and blue. Vertical creases from folding. Corners bumped. Very minor toning. Toning...
![Y NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL [Handbill and Program]. District Curators Inc., Y Arts](/pictures/thumb/23571.jpeg?v=1561473152)
Y NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL [Handbill and Program]
(Washington, DC): (1983). First Edition. Handbill, 8'' x 13'', light edgewear, horizontal folding crease. Light toning to verso. Very good plus. With: Program, printed yellow wraps, 8.5'' x 5.5'' folded single sheet. Three small tears/chips to edges; back cover creased. Good plus. Two pieces of ephemera from the Y New...