Poets and Murder, a Chinese Detective Story

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. [Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.x; 174; [6], blank. With illustrations drawn by the author, illustrated endpaper plan. Publisher's quarter green cloth, photographic dust-jacket, priced at $4.95. A lovely fine copy. Poets and Murder was Van Gulik's final Judge Dee detective novel, finished shortly before his death in 1967.… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1972). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to pages). First US printing. Mystery featuring Judge Dee (630-700 AD), set during the Tang dynasty, illustrated with 8 drawings by Van Gulik. Illustrated endpapers. Postscript. 174 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1972]., 1972. First edition. First U. S. edition. Fine in dust jacket. A story of ancient China where a student has been murdered, and a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death. Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling murder and soon discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, [1968]., 1968. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. A story of ancient China where a student has been murdered, and a beautiful poetess is accused of whipping her maidservant to death. Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling murder and soon discovers that complicated passions lurk beneath the seemingly tranquil landscape of academic life.

SCRIBNERS, 1968 hardback book and dust jacket in very good-plus condition,original price is intact [$4.95],[A] on reverse of title page. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.