THE WILLOW PATTERN A Chinese Detective Story.

First edition, first printing. Original purple cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in the original Paul Castell dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers, with fifteen illustrations 'in Chinese Style' by the author. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with some bumping to the lower spine tip and some fading to the upper spine. The contents are clean throughout without marks or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly bumped, rubbed, and nicked dustwrapper, with some fading to the spine and two short closed tears to the lower spine tip. Not price-clipped (15s net to the front flap).

The twelfth Judge Dee mystery. (Hubin).