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Mushroom Book (signed limited edition) by Cage, John, Lois Long and Alexander H. Smith

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Title: Mushroom Book (signed limited edition)
Author: Cage, John, Lois Long and Alexander H. Smith
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: New York: Hollanders Workshop, 1972. Portfolio (56 x 38 cm.), [30] leaves (10 double sheets folded once, 10 single sheets)+ [2] title & colophon leaves. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 75 copies from a total edition of 90. 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. 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. 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 twenty-five years. [OCLC locates fifteen copies; not in Volbracht, Myko Libri: die Bibliothek der Pilzbucher].

Autograph Letter SIGNED, in English, on emblematic, "Hotel Cecil" stationery, 4to, London, May 30, 1906 by CARUSO, ENRICO

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Title: Autograph Letter SIGNED, in English, on emblematic, "Hotel Cecil" stationery, 4to, London, May 30, 1906
Author: CARUSO, ENRICO
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Caruso writes to John Ridgely Carter, an American diplomat stationed in Great Britain, noting, "Confidential" at the top of the page. "I am sorry I cannot give you a definite reply because the terms of my contract with the Royal Opera Syndicate require that all engagements of the kind you propose must pass through the Syndicate...." He signs, "Enrico Caruso." In the spring of 1906, after he lived through the San Francisco earthquake in April of that year, Caruso returned London to sing at Covent Garden. He reprised his popular roles in "Rigoletto," "Pagliacci " "Tosca," "La Traviata" and "Don Giovanni" for a total of twenty-nine performances under his contract which ended July 26. Classically framed with printed photograph by Mishkin showing Caruso standing full length in costume for "Un Ballo in Maschera." Image framed and full dimensions on request.

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The Successors of Genghis Khan by AL-DIN, Rashid

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Title: The Successors of Genghis Khan
Author: AL-DIN, Rashid
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780231033510
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Description: New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. hardcover. very good(+). Translated from Persian by John Andrew Boyle. 372 pages, 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. A very good(+) copy.

Read, Color, Cut, Paste for Children from 5 to 7 Years Old; Cover title: Read-Color Cut and Paste, M3401 by STUBBINGS, Maud C. and Genevieve Byrnes WATTS

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Title: Read, Color, Cut, Paste for Children from 5 to 7 Years Old; Cover title: Read-Color Cut and Paste, M3401
Author: STUBBINGS, Maud C. and Genevieve Byrnes WATTS
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago, Illinois: The Merrill Publishing Company, 1936. Wraps. Very good. Eleanor CAMPBELL. [ACTIVITY BOOK] [EDUCATION] [EPHEMERA]. Eleanor CAMPBELL, cover illustration. Folio (14 7/8" x 10 ¼"); [64]pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper, 3 staple binding; color pictorial title page printed in red and black, vignette of 2 children crafting; clear simple printed outlines to color, large text; pages unused; edges lightly scuffed, staples have pulled away from wrapper, 4 1/2" separation at head of wrapper fold, paper age-toned; very good. Not found in OCLC. In this large format activity book, the authors write that "It is the purpose of READ, COLOR, CUT, PASTE to teach children these four fundamental activities by providing them with interesting, instructive things to do. Family life, and the activities which children enjoy most in the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, are the subjects of the stories and pictures." Maud C. Stubbings was a noted primary school educator in the Chicago public school system. She authored several 'learning to read' books and activity books aimed at children in the first grade. Genevieve Watts was an educator in the [Mark] Twain School of Chicago, also in the public school system. She co-authored several books with Stubbings. Chicago Tribune July 1955.

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