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The Package: A Mystery
by Anderson, Laurie
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1971. First edition. First edition, first printing. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red spine lettering. Very Good, foxed cloth and endpapers, in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, lightly shelf worn, foxing to verso.
The rare first separate published book by experimental musician, artist, and performance artist Laurie Anderson, best-known for her song "O Superman," a surprise hit in the UK in 1981 that doesn't sound like any pop song before or since. This small (4.5" x 5.75") book is a wordless graphic novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140946237
- Title
- The Package: A Mystery
- Author
- Anderson, Laurie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis & New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- performance art. music, musician
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Art;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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