Jou Pu Tuan: a Seventeenth Century Erotic Moral Novel (The Prayer Mat of Flesh)
by Yu, Li; Richard Martin (translator into English)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with dust jacket. Second printing of 1959 First Edition. Black cloth spine on brown boards, clean and sharp. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright and clean, mild general age toning. Book is firm in binding, crisp and clean. Translated into English by Richard Martin from the German translation by Dr. Franz Kuhn of the original Chinese. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages .
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- KULTURAs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73287
- Title
- Jou Pu Tuan: a Seventeenth Century Erotic Moral Novel (The Prayer Mat of Flesh)
- Author
- Yu, Li; Richard Martin (translator into English)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Chinese Literature, Ming Dynasty Literature, Richard Martin, Dr, Franz , Kuhn, Ming Period, The Golden Lotus,
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