Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971. Quarter bound in mustard cloth with paper spine label and grey boards illustrated in green and gold on front cover. pp [4], (xxx), (250) + 10 double-sided plates. Very nearly fine, no owner names, lacking slipcase. Falkland Islands, around the Horn, Marquesas, Sandwich Islands, China, Nootka Sound, crusing the Northwest Coast. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Octavo, blue cloth spine with paper label and pictorial boards boldly illustrated in colour. Light rubbing to edges of boards; a VG bright, tight jacketless copy otherwise, no previous owner names. The third Kai Lung book. Not actually crime fiction.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1906. Variant in blue non-pictorial wrappers with cover imprint of The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Toronto. pp 297. Spine tanned, covers a bit faded, Sunday school rubber stamp on half-title page, yellowing to page edges, VG+ otherwise. A novel of Canadian missionaries in China. Watters p. 328.

No place (Paris): Jérôme Martineau, 1967. pp [2], (408). Double page map at rear. Rebound in full crimson morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bound- in ribbon marker. A fine copy. No further volumes were published.

Toronto: Ryerson, 1954. Yellow cloth. Bit of darkening to front gutter, else fine, no names. Red dust jacket has nicks and a little rubbing to spine tips; short tears to rear panel; VG and bright. A novel set in China.

New York: HarperCollins (Harper Collins), 2002. ADVANCE READING COPY. Octavo, 450 pp. Glossy pictorial card covers. Fine copy. "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of SOUL MOUNTAIN comes a deeply moving and surprisingly candid novel about one man's experience of China's Cultural Revolution - offering readers a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, and on the effects of political oppression on the human psyche." - rear cover.

Toronto: oard of Home Missions of the United Church of Canada, 1929. The paper issue in grey card covers, endpaper maps. pp [2], xiv, 222, [2] + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and 7 double-sided plates. Spine faintly yellowed; a fine copy. Chinese, Japanese, and East Indian immigrants in Canada, all in need of Christianity, obviously. Size: Small octavo.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. Cloth & boards. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. "A Chinese Detective Story", the last full-length Judge Dee novel.

London: Luzon, 1966. Octavo, pale grey boards. pp x, 77 + frontispiece portrait and plates at rear. Errata slip tipped in. Small light tan spot on rear cover, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has a small brown spot on rear panel and very lightly yellowed spine, else fine. Cheng was a great authority on Confucianism, a justice for the UN, and the Ambassador of the Republic of China to the United Kingdom. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

New York: Scribner's, 1927. Small quarto, illustrated paper covers. Nicks and creases to yapp edges of covers, else fine. Contains “The Young Cowboy” a story, with his illustrations, by Will James. Also “Captured by Chinese Bandits”, an article by Thomas Jeffries Betts, Capt., U.S. Army, which involves opium use.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. Red cloth, endpaper maps. Yellowing to page edges, else fine and bright, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has nicks and rubbing at spine ends, small tear to front panel, VG otherwise. An historical novel about the fall of China's Ming Dynasty n 1643.

Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1987. Cream boards. Fine in fine jacket. Review copy for William French with slip laid in. Author's first novel, set against the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Second printing. Green cloth. pp xiv, 349. Index, bibliography, map. Two ink names at front, spine sunned to tan, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy.

New York: Putnam, 1926. Octavo. Blue linen grain pictorial cloth stamped in silver (also noted in blue ribbed cloth stamped in black and in orange cloth). Blue topstain. Green on cream pictorial endpapers. xviii, 371, (3) pp. Illustrations in text. In addition to the translation, Bedford-Jones adds a 3 page postscript to the Soulie de Morant preface. Ink name and two rubber stamps to front endpapers; rubber stamp to verso of front free endpaper; hairline crack to front inner hinge neatly reglued; VG otherwise. A scarce edition. Watters p. 245. One of the most famous novels of China, written toward the end of the 14th century by an author who used the pen name Ming-tsiao Chong-jen.

Hong Kong: Han Mo Xuan Company, 1991. Large quarto, black cloth. pp (256). Colour reproductions. Text in Chinese and English. Fine in VG, lightly rubbed, dust jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1937. Orange cloth, spine stamped in black, top edges orange, cream endpapers. [2], (viii), 310 pp. Soft crease at head of spine, light browning to inner margins of endpapers, else a VG, jacketless copy, no owner names. A tale of intrigue set in China, featuring "the evil, mysterious Lan Chao-tao, a Chinese star bandit whom few have ever seen but whose appalling activities have spreak octopuslike throughout the world."

London: Cassell, 1918. Dark green cloth. (xiv), 304 pp, index. Bit of wear to tips of bit darkened spine and to outer corners of covers; text paper lightly yellowed; pencil owner name; a VG, tight copy otherwise.