Rober Hans van Gulik 1102755 — Dee Goong An. Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee. [Inscribed copy, signed]. An Old Chinese Detective Novel Translated from the Original Chinese with an Introduction and Notes by R. H. van Gulik

printed for the author by the Toppan Printing Company, 1949, 1e druk, Original pictorial boards, decorated with a polychrome woodblock print designed in the Chinese manner, 238, First edition, one of only 1,200 copies, signed by Robert van Gulik and with his red Chinese seal on the limitation leaf. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For Professor T. Hayashi, with the author's best regards. R. H. van Gulik, Tokyo, March 1965. The privately printed first edition of Van Gulik's translation of the eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel which inspired his celebrated Judge Dee series. An attractive copy with a presentation inscription made sixteen years after publication, shortly after Van Gulik's return to Tokyo in 1965. Some rubbing and wear to boards, spine and extremities., Goed