The willow pattern: a Chinese detective story ... with fifteen illustrations drawn

by the author in Chinese style by Robert Van Gulik

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965 . First American edition, 8vo, pp. 8 , 183, 1 ; pictorial endpapers, fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Printing and publishing The Haunted Monastery, The Red Pavilion, and The Lacquer Screen in Kuala Lumpur had been a most interesting and instructive experience, and also financially satisfying. But when these books proved so popular that orders came in for hundreds of copies, my printer and I realized that this

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