United States by Anderson Laurie, First Edition (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. UNITED STATES, Laurie Anderson, softcover, stated first edition, richly illustrated, 1984. ITEM CONDITION: good. The text block and illustrations are in near fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No bookplate nor signature of prior owner. Not a remainder nor library item. The wraps are in fairly good condition (front cover has a creased upper righthand corner and a tiny tear on the lower righthand corner; inside of front cover has age-toned areas). 8 ½ x 11, 231 pages, 31 ounces XX [From the Good Reads website] Laurie Anderson's book UNITED STATES includes stories, anecdotes, poems, songs, images, and commentary from the author's multi-media concert show. XX Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single O Superman reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film, Home of the Brave. She has also invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot long, batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing, small 1/4 " tear under D on front cover.

First edition. Single sheet folded once to create four pages. Brochure for a set of performances by Anderson that took place May 19 and May 20, 1982 in Chicago. Text by Lynne Warren. Includes a discography for Anderson but lacking the additional text sheets. A near fine copy with some minor wear. Scarce ephemera with only 1 copy listed in OCLC.

Erste Deutsche Ausgabe. 21 x 13 cm. 44 S. 2 Bl. OKarton mit OKLappenumschlag. Gutes bis sehr gutes Exemplar. Über die im Februar 1983 in Europa erstmals aufgeführte achtstündige Performance United States I-IV.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has slight skew to the binding, mild bowing to the covers, shallow waving to the head of the text block, a hint of sunning to the cover edges, and very slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has light bumps with tiny tears and creases to the spine ends and corners, some mild edge wear to the covers with a couple short tears to the head of the back, and faint sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. outstanding work in connection with a performance by Laurie Anderson; photos, clippings, lists of performances; documents her 1983 multimedia performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music; signature personally obtained by bookseller; some slight wear at edges. Signed by Author(s).