Published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1965
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
First Edition
HardBack. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st UK Edition Thus, Andre Deutsch 1965. Appears unopened and unread, very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions, gently rubbed to head of upper hinge. Bound in bright gilt lettered full blue cloth, together with the original Fritz Wergener unclipped colour pictorial dustwrapper gently rubbed to head and foot of spine and extremities. Li Yu was a playwright and novelist of the Ming dynasty, herein tending to present the bitter olive of mortality embedded on the sweet flesh of dates.