Lacquer Screen by Robert Gulik (134 results)

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1962 copyirhgt. Later reprint with powder blue background on front cover. Judge Dee mystery.

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185pp. Van Gulik, a Dutch diplomat and authority on Chinese history and culture, drew the plots from his stories from the body of Chinese literature, especially from popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century. Each Judge Dee mystery features original Chinese plots, rewritten to form one continuous story, featuring master detective Judge Dee, one of the most famous master detectives who lived in the T'ang Dynasty of the seventh century A.D. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First edition. Second printing. Mass market paperback. Very good, a clean unmarked copy. Tight binding, light foxing. The Lacquer Screen is one of van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries, set in Tang Dynasty China, where the magistrate-detective Judge Dee investigates a puzzling case involving a lacquered screen and political intrigue. Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch diplomat, Orientalist, and scholar of Chinese culture, best known for bringing the Judge Dee detective novels to Western audiences. The Lacquer Screen was the fourth Judge Dee mystery he published, part of the long-running series that blends historical fiction with classic detection.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. A book in the Judge Dee series. Owner's name written on title page.

183pp. With illustrations in period style by the author, map and textual notes. Van Gulik, a Dutch diplomat and authority on Chinese history and culture, drew the plots from his stories from the body of Chinese literature, especially from popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century. Each Judge Dee mystery features three original Chinese plots, rewritten to form one continuous story, featuring master detective Judge Dee, one of the most famous master detectives who lived in the T'ang Dynasty of the seventh century A.D. In THE LACQUER SCREEN, the Chinese Sherlock Holmes travels to a nearby province, where he goes undercover, disguised as a petty crook and hobnobbing with a robber king to expose the cases of The Lacquered Screen, The Credulous Merchant, and The Faked Accounts. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good.…