Buy this book on-line GASH**, JONATHAN: : JADE WOMAN - A Lovejoy NarrativeLONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS & CO LTD.,1988. ISBN 0002321637.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicative of an export copy,which usually precedes the domestic first trade edns issue and distribution.Bright, crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white,green and orange lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Small nick/tear with commensurate loss to top rear corner,and spine/ backstrip's top,front gutter's edge and also to front,bottom corner.Internally to dw/dj,slight water- stain partial bleeding from boards,to both top+bottom edges of dw/dj - but not visible externally.Top+fore-edges both sporadically spotted/foxed; contents bright,tight,clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Concomitant light dulling to boards' top+bottom edges from water-staining.Reads and sounds worse than it actually is! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-240pp [paginated] includes 38 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with another dedication to it's reverse,and an author's note with a Latin epigraph to it's verso.
Even East Anglia becomes too hot for Lovejoy, dodgy antique dealer,when he is forced to flee gangsters,bailiffs,police, bankruptcy . . . He makes it to Hong Kong,but then things go horribly wrong and he is soon destitute. Wandering the alleys and markets of the colony, he glimpses one of the famous Jade Women,the trained beauties who figurehead the notorious Triads,but by then survival is all he cares about.
Antiques become his lifeline.He manages to contact a fellow passenger for assistance,only to see him knifed in Kowloon.On this occasion a garrulous gigolo gets Lovejoy out of trouble,but not before he has met a strangely ubiquitous lame beggar.
Lovejoy becomes enmeshed in the gigolo's sordid lifestyle.The Triads also incorporate him in an antiques scam aimed at acquiring the vast American firm of Brookers Gelman.
When he unwittingly causes the death of another innocent,Lovejoy decides to exact revenge by emulating the exploits of the greatest faker of the nineteenth century . . .
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