John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles. 
 
Marion Boyars: 1981. First U.S. edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Square octavo. Tanning along the top and bottom of the jacket. On the jacket a small tear on the corner of the crown of the spine. Smudging on the front panels and along the folds of the jacket. Trace foxing along the folds on the back panels. Boards have minor tanning on the top and bottom. A moderate amount of foxing on the edges of the text block, some of which touches the endpapers. A few dings and dots on a few of the pages across the book. 239 pages. Very good. Signed. 
 
Cage brings his first rate energy to the interview format and shows his omnivorous genius in quotable flashes of lightning. 
 
"I am for the birds, not the cages that people put them in."