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The Stain: Available Copies
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $20.39
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $20.39
Paperback. The provocative, spellbinding debut novel, set in a village in the Loire Valley in the late 19th century, by prolific worldbuilder Rikki Ducornet. In The Stain, Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: MW Books Ltd. (Galway, Ireland)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $20.13
Shipping: $15.14
TOTAL Cost: $35.27
Uncorrected proof. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 191p.; 21cm. Subjects: Demoniac possession Fiction.Birthmarks Fiction. Demoniac possession France Fiction. Girls France Fiction. France Fiction.France Religious life and customs Fiction. Fiction in English American writers 1945- Texts. Genre: Fantastic fiction. Fiction.Historical fiction. 1 Kg.
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Seller: MW Books (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $35.60
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TOTAL Cost: $35.60
Uncorrected proof. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 191p.; 21cm. Subjects: Demoniac possession Fiction.Birthmarks Fiction. Demoniac possession France Fiction. Girls France Fiction. France Fiction.France Religious life and customs Fiction. Fiction in English American writers 1945- Texts. Genre: Fantastic fiction. Fiction.Historical fiction. 1 Kg.
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Seller: Book Deals (Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $45.26
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TOTAL Cost: $45.26
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. 0.65
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Seller: Arundel Books (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $40.00
Shipping: $5.75
TOTAL Cost: $45.75
Inscribed by the authior on the title page: For Ella / from (signed) Rikki / with friendship. First Thus, revised edition. Top of spine slightly bumped, and a touch of light shelfwear, else Very Good. // Ducornet's first published novel (1984) revised and published here for the first time (1995).
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The Stain by Ducornet, Rikki
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394542843
Publisher: Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A. (1984)
Seller: Callaghan Books South (New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $39.00
Shipping: $8.00
TOTAL Cost: $47.00
(1st ptg.) Brown cloth spine, red boards, bright silver lettering on spine, 191 heavy pages. DJ has color-illustration of hare with snakes for ears, b/w photo of Ducornet on back. DJ has light wear along both bookfold edges in places, light wear at spine corners, microtear and light crease at top back tip. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.
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The Stain by Rikki Ducornet
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Chatto Windus, London (1984)
Seller: Dan Pope Books (West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $45.00
Shipping: $4.50
TOTAL Cost: $49.50
First U.K. edition. First printing. Fine in a fine jacket. Hardbound. There is a pin-sized hole on the front dust jacket, and a corresponding rubbed white line.
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The Stain by Ducornet, Rikki
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Chatto & Windus London 1984 (1984)
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $38.00
Shipping: $20.00
TOTAL Cost: $58.00
1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo. 191pp., Neat ownership stamp o/w nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket
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Seller: AwesomeBooks (Wallingford, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $54.58
Shipping: $6.47
TOTAL Cost: $61.05
The Stain, The (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) 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: Bahamut Media (Reading, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $54.58
Shipping: $9.04
TOTAL Cost: $63.62
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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