Buy this book on-line van Gulik, Robert : Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective StoriesCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1967
Original publisher's red cloth binding in a red paper dust jacket. Black-and-white lettering on dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 8 1/4." 174 pages, complete. Four additional pages in back showing a timeline of the Judge Dee stories and novels. Eight black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is clean and intact except for a sunned spine and minuscule wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. Eight Judge Dee mystery stories Robert van Gulik. The stories are "Five Auspicious Clouds," "The Red Tape Murder," "He Came with the Rain," "The Murder on Lotus Pond," "The Two Beggars," "The Wrong Sword," "The Coffins of the Emperor," and "Murder on New Year's Eve." Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch author, Orientalist, and diplomat. Van Gulik specialized in the study of Chinese history and culture. Notably, Van Gulik translated the eighteenth-century Chinese literary work, Di Gong An ("Cases of Judge Dee"), a collection of Judge Dee stories. Judge Dee (or, Judge Di) was inspired by the historical figure, Di Renjie (c. 630-c. 700), a county magistrate and statesman of the Tang imperial court. After translating Di Gong An, Van Gulik became interested in making his own Judge Dee stories. The following is the front abstract: "These eight stories, featuring the master-detective of Ancient China and his assistants Ma Joong, Sergeant Hoong and Chiao Tai, cover a decade during which the judge served four different provinces of the Tang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army facing the Tartar hordes on the western frontier to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion in Han-yuan, the cases presented here are among the most memorable of Judge Dee's long and distinguished career.". Illustr.: van Gulik, Robert. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of van Gulik, Robert : Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, collectables, livres illustrées, libri antichi and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |