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Dee Goong An; Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee by VAN Gulik, Robert
Book Description
Tokyo: Toppan Printing, 1949. First edition of the author's first book. One of 1200 numbered copies, signed by Van Gulik. Octavo. xiii, [1], 237, [1] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's colorful pictorial boards with red cover and spine lettering (the front cover has a depiction of a panel of Chinese judges officiating over a nude woman who appears to be in a torture device and rear cover bears Chinese kanji). In the original plain dust jacket. The previous owner has affixed his bookplate to the front free endpaper and has typed the name of the book on the spine of the otherwise plain dust jacket. Aside from those two hiccups, a very attractive copy; sound and fresh. Robert Hans van Gulik was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin) and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An. This is the first of his many Judge Dee mysteries and tells of a celebrated seventh-century Chinese magistrate's investigation of a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and a murder in a small town.
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