The Chinese Nail Murders A Judge Dee Mystery . A Chinese detective story suggested

by original ancient Chinese plots by Robert Van Gulik

$125 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

London: Michael Joseph, 1961. Detective fiction FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.216. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt to spine, sketch-map to endpapers printed in orange, dust-wrapper designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 15s. net. Contents clean, with extensive blue ink ownership and notes to verso of fly-leaf and half-title. Bright jacket with a few tiny nicks. Very good indeed. An attractive copy. The fourth 'Judge

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