John Cage, First Edition (230 results)

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage. Silverman, Kenneth. Published by Knopf, 2010. 483p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket clean/square, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib, near fine except for small stain on page edges one corner, NOT XLIBISBN 10: 1400044375ISBN 13: 97814000443758.00.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1995 1st paperback edition and printing with full number line . Curling/denting on front cover and first 30 or so pages, small fold on back cover and last page, a little soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight .

Barbara de Wilde (illustrator). New York: Knopf:, 2010. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 481 pp. Cover artwork by: Barbara de Wilde First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 375 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. *** "Composer John Cage is often described as the most influential musician of the last half-century. He has defined - and continues to define - our whole concept of 'avant-garde', not just in music but increasingly as writer and visual artist. 'The Roaring Silence' is the first full-length biography of Cage. It documents his life in unrivalled detail, interweaving a close account of the evolution of his work with an exploration of his aesthetic, political and philosophical ideas. David Revil maintains that Cage's extraordinary productivity and versatility are best understood in the light of his inner development. His life, work and ideas have clarified, refined and reinforced one another, and thereby Cage has made himself what he is. While never assuming specialist knowledge, this book discusses all of Cage's works in depth and sets them in the context of his compositional, theoretical and personal development. Also included are the most comprehensive worklist, discography and bibliography available to date, as well as many previously unpublished photographs. The author draws judiciously on extensive library and archive material, and on exclusive interviews and conversations with Cage and many of his friends and associates. The result is a true-to-life and true-to-form appreciation of a genuine original, of interest not only to the serious researcher and the musician but to everyone interested in the cultural influences that have shaped, and are shaping 20th century thought." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo, card covers, 297pp. VG: clean covers, solid binding, minor toning to the otherwise clean pages, one folded corner, one tiny marginal nick.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. B & W plates; 7 X 1.75 X 10.5 inches; 496 pages.

Hardcover. 375p., preface, prelude, source notes, bibliography, chronologies, index, b&w photo section, red star stamp on endpaper else a very good first US edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. First. Illus. 483pp. 8vo, gray boards. New York: Knopf, 2010. A near fine copy, lacking the dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. B American History. This regular size hardcover is new in a new dj. White spine with lines and red title.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Schirmer Books, 1996. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. THE MOUNTAIN LAKE WORKSHOP: Artists in Locale, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Howard Finster, John Cage, Ray Kass, Jiro Okura with text bybDONALD Kuspit and Howard Rosatti. 70 pages, paper with stiff cover. Color and black & white reproductions. VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Paper Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8pp. 11 x 7 inch. An original complete 8 page edition of this weekly magazine. In the title line I have listed articles or pictures of interest in this issue. Most issues contain a mixture of general interest articles usually including visits to famous or exotic places, scientific, topographical, art, etc and some articles are illustrated with fine woodcuts. It has been disbound from a compilation and is therefore still unfolded and in nice clean condition, no deliberate marks, but it is c200 years old and may have light foxing or age discolouration. It will be despatched in a board back envelope. If ordering more than one issue reductions on postage apply.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); no dj; overall a nice used copy! Black and white pictorial boards with white lettering. 144 historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "John Cage was a giant of American experimental music--composer, writer, and artist. He is most widely known for his 1952 composition 4'33, whose three movements continue to challenge the definition of music by being performed without playing a single note. In questioning fundamental tenets of Western music, Cage was often at the center of controversy, and is regarded as an important contributor to many facets of American culture. To enable readers to understand what makes Cage such an extraordinary figure, David Nicholls masterfully places his striking body of prose and poetry, over 300 music compositions, and prominent performance career into historical, environmental, intellectual, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts. Nicholls' intimate study of John Cage's personal and professional life confirms the legacy of this major figure in twentieth-century American culture.".

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to., bw & color plates, 60 pp. Firm binding, bumped/scuffed wraps, bright pages with no ownership markings. ; Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in softcover. Shelf-wear, light rubbing to covers.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing, trade paperback, has bumps to the spine ends and corners with creasing to the covers and pages at the head of the spine, slight rubbing to the covers, wear with a few small dings to the edges, a very faint spot to the head of the text block, and a previous seller's barcode sticker to the tail of the back cover. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good copy.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Book appears very lightly read and near sharp. There are a few stray pencil underlines and notes in 3 places. 416 pages, includes photos and illustrations peppered throughout, and an index.

PAPERBACK, very good, probably unused, with slightest wear to top corners. remainder stamp on top foredge. ROBINSON, JULIA, ed. . John Cage. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011, 1st printing number line ending in 1, x, 220pp., . October files, 12. - John Cage (1912-1992) defined a radical practice of composition that changed the course of modern music and shaped a new conceptual horizon for postwar art. Famous for his use of chance and "silence" in musical works, a pioneer in electronic music and the nonstandard use of instruments, Cage was one of the most influential composers of the last century. This volume traces a trajectory of writings on the artist, from the earliest critical reactions to the scholarship of today. If the first writing on Cage in the American context, often written by close associates with Cage's involvement, seemed lacking in critical distance, younger scholars--a generation removed--have recently begun to approach the legacy from a new perspective, with more developed theoretical frameworks and greater skepticism. This book captures that evolution. The texts include discussions of Cage's work in the context of the New Music scene in Germany in the 1950s; Yvonne Rainer's essay looking back on Cage and New York experimentalism of the 1960s; a complex and original mapping of Cage's place in a wider avant-garde genealogy that includes Le Corbusier and Moholy-Nagy; a musicologist's account of Cage's process of defining and formalizing his concept of indeterminacy; and an analysis of Cage's project that considers his strategies of self-representation as key to his unique impact on modern and postmodern art. - CONTENTS: John Cage, or liberated music (1959) / Heinz-Klaus Metzger -- Chance as ideology (1967) / Konrad Boehmer -- Looking myself in the mouth (1981) / Yvonne Rainer -- Cage and Asia: history and sources (1996) / David W. Patterson -- John Cage and the architecture of silence (1997) / Branden W. Joseph -- Post-Cagean aesthetics and the event score (2001) / Liz Kotz -- The formalization of indeterminacy in 1958: John Cage and the experimental composition at the New School (2008) / Rebecca Y. Kim -- John Cage and investiture: unmanning the system (2009) / Julia Robinson. ISBN 9780262516303.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Overall a bright and attractive copy with no signs of wear or aging. 128 pp.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine+. First Edition; First Printing. Numerous illustrations. Introduction by Kathan Brown. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California, that opened April 18, 1982, the year of John Cage's 70th birthday. ; Tight, clean and crisp. In excellent condition. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. As New. ; 4to; 60 pages.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Original exhibition catalogue, with one of the most extensive selections we've seen of reproductions of Cage's scores. 4to. Stiff French-flapped wrappers. 279, [1] pages. Some fading to spine, touch of creasing. Else bright and sound throughout.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [6] pp.; 3 pages fold-out, 28 cm.: Damp-staining to top corners of pages: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. B&W Photographs (illustrator). 1st Printing. Gift quality copy, appears unread in bright and tight textblock. All page edges are straight and sound. Minimally shelf worn. 342p., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. [8], [376] pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Subtle wear jacket extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. John Cage, color reproductions of art (illustrator). First Edition. Fine in wrappers.