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The Jade Cabinet: Available Copies

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6

Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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 and/or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

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.

Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any). 0.5

1997. First Edition. Paperback. New.

May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

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).

8vo, 158 pp., Afterword by the author.

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 0.5

Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's own Dragon of Industry. The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertiliser, 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. The fourth element in a tetralogy of novels - Earth (The Stain), Fire (Entering Fire), Water (The Fountains of Neptune) and Air - The Jade Cabinet is both a riveting novel and a reflection on the nature of memory and desire, language and power. Following the novel is an afterword, 'Waking to Eden,' in which Ducornet reflects on the sources for her writing and on the quartet of novels completed by The Jade Cabinet.'Linguistically explosive.One of the most interesting American writers around.' - The Nation Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85

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.

Brand New.

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)

New looking apparently unread copy inscribed and signed by Ducornet on dedication page in black ink with a drawing of a leaf, 2nd printing.

First Printing. Author of THE COMPLETE BUTCHER'S TALES

158 pages. 8.50x5.50x8.50 inches. In Stock.

In

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2024. Trade Paperback . . . . . .

wraps, 158 pp, cover very lightly frayed at the edges, black remainder mark at the top edge Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy order.