Elimination Dance
by Ondaatje, Michael
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London, Ontario: Brick Books, 1991. First printing thus. 52 pp., 5.5 x 5.5 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers.
Scattered foxing to edges, and tiny nick to corner of front cover, otherwise very good.
First printing of this bilingual travellers edition, with French translation by Lola Lemire Tostevin, and illustrations from archival sources. A satirical absurdist essay disguised as a textbook, consisting of four sections: Elimination Dance, Four Maps (including one that shows Locations in Canada where Brian Mulroney has been burned in effigy or pissed on from great heights during a motorcade), Study Questions, and Further Eliminations.
Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Scattered foxing to edges, and tiny nick to corner of front cover, otherwise very good.
First printing of this bilingual travellers edition, with French translation by Lola Lemire Tostevin, and illustrations from archival sources. A satirical absurdist essay disguised as a textbook, consisting of four sections: Elimination Dance, Four Maps (including one that shows Locations in Canada where Brian Mulroney has been burned in effigy or pissed on from great heights during a motorcade), Study Questions, and Further Eliminations.
Inscribed by the author on the title page.
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- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4100
- Title
- Elimination Dance
- Author
- Ondaatje, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing thus
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Place of Publication
- London, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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