Burnside Rare Books

Mud Book

Cage, John; Lois Long

New York and London: Callaway Editions / David Grob Editions, 1983.

First edition. Copy #42 of a limited 500 signed by John Cage and Lois Long. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps with hand-pulled silkscreen prints pasted on accordion-style binding, with laid in folded sheet with publisher's colophon. In glassine wraps, with sheets of glassine inserted between prints. Fine. Small nick to glassine wrap, offsetting to glassine protective sheets.

This first edition is an outstanding example of silkscreen printing. Its extraordinary quality was accomplished by employing up to sixty-nine (69) screens for a single page, achieving a startling luminosity of color and distinctness of line and form. Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada and Kenjiro Nonaka of Simca Print Artists, Inc., Japan produced this extraordinary book. Item #140940729

Price: $2,000.00