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The Jade Cabinet
by Ducornet, Rikki
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 156478021X
- ISBN 13
- 9781564780218
- Seller
-
Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
A$59.46A$53.51
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About This Item
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010755
- Title
- The Jade Cabinet
- Author
- Ducornet, Rikki
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 156478021X
- ISBN 13
- 9781564780218
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Place of Publication
- Normal, IL
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 158
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Literary, Psychological
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Singularity Rare & Fine
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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