The Lacquer Screen

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [1969]. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with a gilt illustration to the front board, and illustrated endpapers. A bump to the bottom corners. The price-clipped dust jacket has short closed tears, and a crease to the rear flap. A Judge Dee mystery.; … Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1969. Hardcover. 181p., endpapers illustrated with sketch maps and 10 plates, foxing else good UK reissue in boards in an unclipped dust jacket. Re-issue. One of several Judge Dee reissues by Heinemann in matching dust jackets.

GULIK, Robert Van The Lacquer Screen (Judge Dee Mystery) A Chinese Detective Story ISBN: 9971490137 Graham Brash, Singapore, 1986, Asian Edition paperback, VG, postscript by author, illustrated from ten b/w sketches drawn by the author in Chinese style, 180 pp. No inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and crisp, edges of text block dust marked, top of title page and endpapers… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph. 1962. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers and ten further illustrations by the author. A very good copy, the binding firm, the spine a little rolled. The cloth is bright and fresh with a thin strip of fading… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, a few small chips and bumps at the edges. Purple buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, former owner's name on the half-title page, clean otherwise. A Judge Dee mystery that sees him go… Read more about this item

Scribners, 1974. paperback / softback. fine. Scribners 1974 paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

NY: SCRIBNERS.. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434825603 . First edition. Very good+ in a priceclipped, otherwise about fine DJ. (Apart from the priceclip, the copy would be fine, but for some chaffing along the righthand edge of the front endpaper, and the corresponding edge of the front pastedown where the two… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First American edition (1969). Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 180, [4] pp. Bound in yellow cloth with figure on horseback stamped in gold on the front board, red lettering on the spine, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the… Read more about this item

UK: Heinemann. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Re-issue. Hardcover. 0434825603 . An ex-library hardback; book has nice blue cloth hardback with gold lettering to spine; heavy red library stamps just on fep, which is on 1 of the illustrations; I cant see stamps any where else. However it looks as if someone has dipped a… Read more about this item

NY: Scribners, 1969. 1st ed. Yellow cloth with bright red lettering. Dampstain at top corner, unnoticeable to jacket but a darkened stain to cloth, jacket, not price clipped, $3.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. A Judge Dee mystery with ten illustrations drawn by the author in the chinese style.. End-papers printed in red show the… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribners, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US edition hardback in original dustjacket , usual page toning ,has 3 small booksellers stamps, in VG jacket not price clipped, minor wear to edges ,toned with age , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic,… Read more about this item

Very slight lean, as usual. Otherwise, a very presentable copy.

Warner Books 1995 . Paperback ISBN 0751509612 Reading creases on spine. Minor ink ticks on several pages. Pages are browned. 226 pages Wt 0.3 Kg Good

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 180pp. Cloth. Decorated endpapers. A Judge Dee historical mystery. Illustrations by the author. Short inscription on front free endpaper. A near fine copy in very good+ price-clipped dustjacket with some fading to spine panel. ; Octavo.

Warner Books 1995 . Paperback ISBN 0751509612 Reading creases on spine and minor creasing at one corner. . Pages are browned. 226 pages Wt 0.3 Kg Good

London: Heinemann, 1964. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Plain paper dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a little loss to the spine ends. Front flap has a plain paper reinforcement to the verso and the rear flap has been trimmed. Leans. Edges of the text block heavily spotted. Previous owners' name to… Read more about this item

A Chinese Detective Story. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: no date) ‘A.-10.69(JU)’ Gilt pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 183. With ten illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. Endpaper pictures depicting the four Seasons. Front of the jacket says ‘New Judge Dee Mysteries’. An owner’s name at head of front free endpaper. Near fine copy… Read more about this item

Warner 75-453, 1974. Book. Illus. by The Author. Good. Paperback. 1st Warner edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. A Judge Dee mystery, this one finding our protagonist "consorting with criminals as he goes incognito into the underworld of Weiping. Bargaining with thieves, sharing beds with prostitutes, he discovers the evidence to expose among the upper classes… Read more about this item

Penguin, 1968. Paperback. Good. 1968. First edition thus. 156 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.. 183pp. With illustrations in period style by the author, map and textual notes. Van Gulik, a Dutch diplomat and authority on Chinese history and culture, drew the plots from his stories from the body of Chinese literature, especially from popular detective novels that first appeared in… Read more about this item