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Phosphor in Dreamland: Available Copies
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Seller: visionarybook (Denver, CO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $8.40
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $12.39
This book is in fine to as new condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have not been read. The cover has minor bumps and scuffs. This is a reviewer's copy so tucked inside the front cover is the Review Copy card from Dalkey Archive Press. Nice find!
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Seller: Lakeside Books (Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $11.27
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $15.26
Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!
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Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $17.54
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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. 0.6
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Seller: Book Deals (Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $17.55
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Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.6
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Phosphor in Dreamland (Paperback) by Rikki Ducornet
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ISBN: 9781628974430
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL (2023)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $19.13
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $19.13
Paperback. Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet's 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 island's seventeenth-century history that brings together the violent Inquisition, the thoughtless extinction of the island's 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, Ducornet's 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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Seller: Good Books In The Woods (Spring, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $6.75
TOTAL Cost: $26.75
INSCRIBED by author on dedication page, "For Seth - with high hopes! It was wonderful to work with you! Rikki 2009." "Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet's dazzling new novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship betrween power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minimal edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends. Tiny folds on back corners and front bottom right corner. Light soiling to edges of pages. Overall, book is clean and tight. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 165 pages; Signed by Author
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