The Willow Pattern: a Chinese detective story with 15 illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style
by van Gulik, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1965. Hardcover. 184p., illustrated endpapers and 15 plates, foxing to edges & pages, cocked text block else good first UK edition in boards & in an unclipped edgeworn dust jacket. New Judge Dee Mysteries.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 297065
- Title
- The Willow Pattern: a Chinese detective story with 15 illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first edition; 1960S; Detective fiction; China;
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...