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The Jade Cabinet: Available Copies
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Seller: Veery Books (Lake Huntington, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.00
Shipping: $3.50
TOTAL Cost: $8.50
158 pp. Wear to edges, a black mark on back wrap. ''Let's suppose that the memory is like a jade cabinet, but a cabinet belonging to an infinitely resolute collector. Each time we look inside, the jade appears to be the same, yet the mind is forever replacing one chimera for another that resembles it. Let's suppose that the memory is a cabinet of chameleons and the mind as unstable as the moon.'' 'The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge.'--from the jacket. ''Our father, Angus Sperry, once described how certain butterflies risk their lives sailing the infinite airs above the seas to flock together at the resonant place (as he called it): an obscure tree, a ragged expanse of beach, a certain plain littered with glacial rubble--utterly transforming the landscape for a few, brief hours, before sailing off to regions unknown, in one great, lucent cloud. This seemed a miracle to me, and if I recall it today, it is because one morning in November something similar took place in Baconfield's mind: he awoke to see spots, powdery, bright and ringed with black--like the eyes on the wings of butterflies. His mind was vagrant with moths, each with two pairs of eyes burning on the wings. And Baconfield could hear their small voices, the voices of angels, very high and thin, the sound the rim of a crystal champange glass makes when rubbed with a wet finger.''--from Chapter 23.
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Seller: Textbooks_Source (Columbia, MO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.44
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $11.43
Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $14.84
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TOTAL Cost: $14.84
Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
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Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.97
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Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.97
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $15.97
SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
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The Jade Cabinet: A Novel by Ducornet, Rikki
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Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL (1993)
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books (Denver, CO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $15.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $22.00
First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends, and a hint of shelfwear to the cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has very small bumps to the spine ends and corners, and faint sunning to the spine. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.
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Seller: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books (Oakland, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $20.14
Shipping: $4.00
TOTAL Cost: $24.14
Hardcover dj/pub.1993/Gd. condition/158 pages- Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. (H79668)
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Seller: Kennys Bookstore (Olney, MD, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $20.30
Shipping: $10.50
TOTAL Cost: $30.80
Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454. Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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The Jade Cabinet by Ducornet, Rikki
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781564780218
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL (1993)
Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA (Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $31.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $36.00
Signed by Ducornet on the title page. Illustrated black and white endpapers with matching dust jacket. The last volume of Ducornet's Tetralogy of the Elements, set in Victorian England. Modest tanning to the page edges.; 158 pages; Signed by Author
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The Jade Cabinet by Ducornet, Rikki
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781564780218
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL (1993)
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine (Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $39.00
Shipping: $6.75
TOTAL Cost: $45.75
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. Stated First Edition; also a first printing. Octavo, dust jacket illustrated by Rosamond Wolff Purcell, green cloth boards with gilt spine imprinting, illustrated endpapers, 158 pp. A Fine, flawless example in a Fine, flawless jacket. See scans. The fourth entry in a primal elements tetralogy (Earth, Fire, Water, and Air) of novels by the unique artist/novelist/poet, Erica Degre "Rikki" Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet is "Air" element, and deals with the same swirl of inner psycho-emotional mysteries that the first three did. Ducornet - who along with much else illustrated Robert Coover's soft-BDSM icon, "Spanking the Maid" - was purportedly the inspiration for the Steely Dan hit, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", after a brief encounter at Bard College with songwriter Donald Fagen. A fine, first/first collectible. L-44n
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