Seymour, Anne, ed. — Dancers on a Plane: Cage, Cunningham, Johns

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Contributions by the editor, Anne Seymour, who is Director of the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, and by Susan Sontag, Judy Adam, Richard Francis, Mark Rosenthal, David Sylvester, and David Vaughan, friends and colleagues of these artists. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in pumpkin-colored cloth, the title being blind-stamped into the front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-165 pp., and augmented with many lovely illustrations and photographs printed on high-gloss paper included at frontis, a fine black-and-white portrait of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Jasper Johns. There are over a dozen full-color reproductions of Johns's paintings (including two in fold-ut!), 19 duo-tone reproductions of pages from a John Cage manuscript, and over two doze duo-tone photographs of Merce Cunningham and his dancers in rehearsal and performance. Learned, accessible essays based on the 1989 exhibition presented by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery of London.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,