The Lacquer Screen
by van Gulik, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
A Chinese Detective Story. (New York: Charles Scribners 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 owners name at head of front free endpaper. Near fine copy in very good dust-jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147798
- Title
- The Lacquer Screen
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- crime fiction
Terms of Sale
exPB
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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