Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1982. First edition. Softcover. 60 pages. Features text contributions by Kathan Brown, Lila Toland, and Paul Singdahlsen Includes color and black and white illustrations, a text composition by Cage along with a chronology and text portrait by Anne d'Harnoncourt. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Item #184447 More

Price: $20.00

Fort Myers, FL: Gallery of Fine Art, Edison College, 2002. Exhibition card for a show that ran February 22 through March 24, 2002. Single sheet that measures 5.5" wide by 10" high. Includes 1 black and white illustration and information about the show. A fine copy. Uncommon ephemera. Item #184412 More

Price: $12.50

Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 2013. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 240 pages. From the publisher: "Between 1983 and 1992 John Cage created some pencil drawings, an intensive exploration of Japan's most famous Zen garden of the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto. The Ryoanji drawings can be seen as the opus magnum of Cage's visual work, illustrating aethetic and conceptual reflections relevant to his entire oeuvre." Text in English by Corinna Thierolf and with a German language text booklet insert. Includes 143 three color plates and 23 additional illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A very fresh copy still largely in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Item #184621 More

Price: $100.00

Wiesbaden: Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden and Galerie Ressel, 1992. First edition. Softcover. 57 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 20 through October 18, 1992. Text in English and German with an essay by Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe and an additional text by Margarethe Goldman in German. Includes color and black and white illustrations, a checklist, chronology, and a list of previous exhibitions. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Item #184446 More

Price: $30.00

Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1988. First edition. Oblong softcover. 22 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 25 through November 27, 1988 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and then traveled to three other locations for additional dates. Features acknowledgementsby Julia Boyd and an essay by Ray Kass. Includes with the covers 5 color illustrations, several black and white illustrations, checklist, brief biography, list of selected awards and honors, selected recent commissions, and a selected bibliography. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Uncommon. Item #189137 More

Price: $35.00

New York: Hollanders Workshop, 1972. First edition. Limited edition of only 75 copies from a total edition of 90. Portfolio that includes title and colophon sheets along with 10 double sheets folded once and with ten additional sheets on a translucent Japanese paper. The Mushroom Book consists of ten folia, each with lithographs of text written by Cage, superimposed upon itself in various-sized lithographic pencils, and a color lithograph by Long of one of fifteen mushroom species in the style of a botanical illustration. Inserted in the folia are single sheets of translucent paper, letterpress printed with transcriptions of Cage’s text, and Alexander Smith’s botanical descriptions. Cage’s texts are examples of his mesostics (a form similar to acrostics); and Smith’s descriptions are technical mycological descriptions. A unique collaboration between the great avant-garde composer John Cage, the textile artist and instructor at Pratt Institute Lois Long, and the distinguished botanist and president of the Mycological Society of America, Alexander H. Smith. This portfolio is perhaps the peak expression of John Cage's life-long engagement with mushrooms and mycology. Cage supported himself early in life as a composer by selling edible mushrooms to restaurants in New York City, including the famous Four Seasons. While teaching experimental composition at the New School for Social Research, he introduced (with Guy Nearing) a class on mushroom identification. The composer asserted no connection between music and fungi, but the connection appears in his writings, most notably, A Music Lover’s Field Companion (1957) which also incorporates hunting for field guides in used bookshops into the parallel worlds of foraging. All components in fine condition and in a fine blue denim case as issued. All plates are signed by Cage as issued. Copies of Mushroom Book have become quite scarce on the market, with only a small handful coming to auction in the last 25 years. [OCLC locates twelve copies; not in Volbracht, Myko Libri: die Bibliothek der Pilzbucher]. Item #182047 More

Price: $15,000.00

Washington, D.C. The Phillips Collection, 1990. First edition. Softcover. 18 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 14 through May 20, 1990. Essentially a program of sorts for this exhibition with a list of events, a few black and white illustrations, and a chronology. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #184452 More

Price: $30.00

Roanoke, VA and New York: Taubman Museum of Art and National Academy Museum, 2011. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 140 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran September 12, 2012 through January 13, 2013 at the National Academy Museum in New York and then February 1 through May 19, 2013 at Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia. Features an introduction by Marshall N. Price, acknowledgements by David Mickenberg, and an essay by Ray Kass and Jerrie Pike. Includes numerous color illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, bibliography and an index. A clean near fine copy in illustrated boards in a near fine dust jacket. Item #184173 More

Price: $100.00

San Francisco, CA: Crown Point Press, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Features text by Kathan Brown. Additional essays by Jackson MacLow, William Spurlock, Peter Frank and Douglas Crimp. Includes numerous illustrations and biographical information about the artists. An about fair copy in wrappers with some looseness to the pages. A solid reference copy. Item #186441 More

Price: $12.50

Ostfildern-Ruit, and Munich, Germany: Hatje Cantz and Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, 2000. First edition. Softcover. 82 pages. Text in English by Joachim Kaak and Corinna Thierolf. Includes black and white illustrations of works by Hanne Darboven and John Cage. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Item #184299 More

Price: $35.00

Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1978. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. The entire issue is devoted to Robin White's interview of artist John Cage. Includes several black and white illustrations and a brief biographical text on Cage. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. Item #184284 More

Price: $45.00