Item #4100 Elimination Dance. Michael Ondaatje.
Elimination Dance
Elimination Dance

Elimination Dance

Ondaatje, Michael

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. Item #4100

First printing of this bilingual ”traveller’s” 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.

Price: $25.00