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Book Cover, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Carin Goldberg and written by Robert Olen Butler and created by Neil Flewellen and published by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.. It is dated 1992 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Steven Heller. It is credited Gift of Steven Heller.

Its dimensions are

21.6 × 14 cm (8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black text, curving: STORIES / A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN; in brown, left center: ROBERT OLEN BUTLER; in black, lower center: Author of / The Alleys / of Eden; inscribed in pen and black ink, verso upper left corner: XX

Cite this object as

Book Cover, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain; Neil Flewellen (probably American, active late 20th and early 21st century); Designed by Carin Goldberg (American, b. 1953); Written by Robert Olen Butler (American, b. 1945); Published by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.; USA; lithograph on paper; 21.6 × 14 cm (8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.); Gift of Steven Heller; 1996-74-102

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