NECKLACE AND CALABASH: A Chinese Detective Story.
by van Gulik, Robert (1910 - 1967.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0684106205
- ISBN 13
- 9780684106205
- Seller
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Synopsis
Necklace and Calabash is a detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. The book features eight illustrations by the author. Necklace and Calabash was the last Judge Dee novel published during van Gulik's lifetime.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66081
- Title
- NECKLACE AND CALABASH: A Chinese Detective Story.
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert (1910 - 1967.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684106205
- ISBN 13
- 9780684106205
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1971)
- Keywords
- tang dynasty, 7th century, china,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries: historical;
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