[Van Gulik] Dee Goong An

An Ancient Chinese detective story: Tokyo, Toppan Printing Company, 1949. 238 pp, hc., original woodcut in colour on front cover. First edition, no. 15 of 1200.

Signed by Van Gulik, with a dedication to his two brothers. Picture of Judge Dee (700 AD) on frontispiece, after an old Chinese woodcut. Illustrated with three reproductions of original Chinese images as well as six plates drawn by the author. Contains: The case of the double murder at dawn, The case of the strange corpse & The case of the poisoned bride.