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Phosphor In Dreamland: Available Copies
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Phosphor in Dreamland (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Rikki Ducornet
Seller: HPB Inc. (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $3.89
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $7.64
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Phosphor in Dreamland (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Ducornet, Rikki
Paperback
ISBN: 9781564780843
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL (1995)
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc. (Rockford, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: As New
Book Price: $7.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $12.00
AS NEW. No wear to the covers. No spine creasing from opening. No distortion from improper shelving. Pages tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading.
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Seller: AwesomeBooks (Wallingford, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.64
Shipping: $5.58
TOTAL Cost: $12.22
This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Seller: Lakeside Books (Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $10.96
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $14.95
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Seller: Bahamut Media (Reading, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.64
Shipping: $8.68
TOTAL Cost: $15.32
Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
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Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.97
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TOTAL Cost: $15.97
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Phosphor in Dreamland (Paperback) by Rikki Ducornet
Paperback
ISBN: 9781628974430
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL (2023)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $18.74
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $18.74
Paperback. Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornets dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a series of letters from a current resident to an old friend describing the islands seventeenth-century history that brings together the violent Inquisition, the thoughtless extinction of the islands exotic fauna, and the amorous story of the deformed artist-philosopher-inventor Phosphor and his impassioned, obsessional love for the beautiful Extravaganza. The Jade Cabinet, Ducornets novel that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was described by one reviewer as Jane Austen meets Angela Carter via Lewis Carroll. Phosphor in Dreamland can be described as Jonathan Swift meets Angela Carter via Jorge Luis Borges. This is Ducornet at her magical best. An ecological parable set on a Caribbean island in the 17th Century. The hero is a clubfooted individual by the name of Phosphor who invents a prototype of the camera to record the island's beauty. The project is financed by an unscrupulous patron who intends to exploit it for very non-ecological purposes. By the author of The Jade Cabinet. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $25.50
First edition. Fine in wraps. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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