Music from Pictograph Books

Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada 1982–84. Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Papers No. 43-45. Staplebound. Volume 1: Aerophones. pp. [1], ii-xi, [2], 2-161, [3]. 61 plates, 103 figures. Good: fading and rubberstamps to cover, edgewear. Covers everything from shakuhachis to shofars. Volume 2: Idiophones and Membranophones. pp. [1], ii-xii, [1], 2-121, [3]. 51… Read more about this item

New York: Chickfactor/Enchanté, 2001 8 1/2 x 11 inches. First edition. Offset printed. pp. [3], 6-9, 8-55, 54-57, 60-63 (some sets of pages are double numbered but all are there). Good+ cond. (some wear to page edges, two slight corner bumps; one little stain inside). More than 60,000 words on bands like Magnetic Fields, Delgados, Sam & John, Montgolfier Brothers,… Read more about this item

Allston, Mass.: Inner X, 1985 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 22 x 28 cm. Very good condition. OTHER SOUND, associated with the INNERSLEEVE SHOP in Boston, presents an interesting amalgam of the local and international (primarily English) contemporaneous scenes. Bands covered are PSYCHIC TV, NURSE WITH WOUND, HUMAN FLESH, SLEEP CHAMBER, HUNTING LODGE, HOLY COW and others. High points include… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 2008 (this pb. ed. 2009). 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Offset printed. pp. [4], v-xlvii, 1-216, 40 black-and-white fully illustrated pages; 4 color fully illustrated pages, 217-676. Signed on half title "George Lewis 6.4.14 Detroit MI." Light exterior wear to back only. A well-illustrated history of the quintessential free music collective… Read more about this item

Hunter, Joseph. Detroit: Global Sound Publications. 1996. Signed ("Best Wishes for Nancy.") Good+ condition: rubbing, edgewear, smudging. pp. [9], 1-135, a-i, [1], [6 (index)]. Autobiographical novel by an original Funk Brother and the band leader at Motown Records until 1964. Extremely scarce, only one copy in OCLC (Univ. of South Carolina).

Alfredo Jaar, 2012 First edition. 7 x 7 Inches (18 x 18 cm). Offset printed. pp. [4], 5-14. Limited edition of 1000 copies. John Cage juvenilia: features ".the earliest of John Cage's extended writings.presented in 1927 at the Hollywood Bowl, where Cage, representing Los Angeles High School, won the Southern California Oratorical Contest. He was 15 years old." Published for… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Md.: Festival of Disappearing Arts, 1979. Flyer is 8 1/2 x 11 and poster is 11 x 17. Both are printed front and back. Only cond. issue is fading to the poster where it was folded in the center. Documents from a 1979 festival featuring cross-disciplinary artists and sponsored by the Merzaum Collective and the Washington Project for the… Read more about this item

Mainz, Germany: Happening Club, 1969 Description: 6 inches x 8 1/2 inches. Pink construction-like paper. Holes punched and very light fading to left side. Includes a blurb from the renowned jazz critic Joachim Berendt. Comments: Rare show flyer from one of the earliest significant Krautrock groups, XHOL-CARAVAN. The flyer is from a relatively local show for them in Mainz (they… Read more about this item

San Giovanni Valdarano, Italy: Materiali Sonori Edizioni Musicali, 1998 First edition. 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 Inches (17 x 24 cm). Offset printed. pp. [1], 2-64, I-XVI (b&w plates: photos), 81-112, XVII-XXXII (b&w plates: scores), 129-144. Includes CD with five pieces composed by Chadbourne and Zorn. Considers the first twenty-five years of Zorn's oeuvre. Includes multiple interviews, essays (both by… Read more about this item

1988 Document from a 1988 retrospective celebrating the legendary electronic music collective, one of the earliest to definitively explore the union of technology and composition. Signed by Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Gordon Mumma, Tony Martin, Bill Maginnis, and Elizabeth Harris. Covered in mylar but in frame (without glass). 14 inches wide by 23 inches tall (with frame is 18 x… Read more about this item

Buffalo, NY: J.R. Blodgett [Undated, but between 1864 and 1869 according to a Buffalo History Museum library record]. 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches. pp. [6]. Fair: foxing throughout, tiny tears, spine unraveling (although publication holds together). Spectacular image on the front of sheet music for a galop. Wahle seems to have been primarily active in the 1860s in Buffalo,… Read more about this item

Bregenz, Austria, Musikladen Bregenz, 1985 6 3/16 x 4 3/8 inches [16 x 11 cm]. Photocopied both sides, tiny pencilled name "Bruce" on back. Comments: Handbill from a show during the ZEN ARCADE era in Bregenz, Austria; the venue seems to have been a skatepark next to the town's theater.