NECKLACE AND CALABASH; A CHINESE DETECTIVE STORY
by Van Gulik, Robert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684106205
- ISBN 13
- 9780684106205
- Seller
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Calumet, Michigan, United States
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Synopsis
Necklace and Calabash is a detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. The book features eight illustrations by the author. Necklace and Calabash was the last Judge Dee novel published during van Gulik's lifetime.
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- Bookseller
- Harbinger Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 086621
- Title
- NECKLACE AND CALABASH; A CHINESE DETECTIVE STORY
- Author
- Van Gulik, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0684106205
- ISBN 13
- 9780684106205
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Bookseller catalogs
- Detective Fiction;
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