Phantom Temple, First Edition (19 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition.

Condition: Good. 1969. First Edition Thus. 171 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 205 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266. . 2007. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. lib stamp on title page covered w/black marker, lite skinning inside rear cover. VG tight copy in about FINE dj, 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US edition, first printing of the thirteenth novel in the "Judge Dee" series. Soiling to the edge of the boards. In good / very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Book has closed tear and pencil erasure at top outside of rear free end paper, light toning to page edges, else Fine. Jacket has wear to front flap fold with scuff to outer corners, missing piece at spine fold near bottom of spine one and a half inch up. Not price clipped. With illustrations in the Chinese style.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1st priinting, Near Fine book with light edge wear bottom of boards, light dusting top page edges and slight page-edge tanning, in a Very Good to Near Fine jacket that has light edge wear and several small spots of color loss along edges, light rubbing, light yellowing along tops of white flaps, and with a dog-ear crease top corner back flap. Nice copy of a Judge Dee mystery.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Some staining and scratching to upper fore-edge, boards have a few small foxing stains, title page has purple stamp, jacket worn at tail of spine, top edge has some general wear and a few small chips, one small tear.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Stamped on title page. (Tang Dynasty, China, Mystery, Historical Fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: nf. Dust Jacket Condition: nf. van gulik (illustrator).

Hardcover. First US Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 203 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is dark gray with orange and white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$3.95" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities. Textblock edges have mild age-toning; illustrated endpapers. Shelved Room C. 1399510. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1966 U.K. hardcover release) first printing of a near fine hardcover with pages toning and some foxing, in a near fine dustjacket with minor wear to the extremities and some creasing to the flaps. The 13th novel in the Judge Dee mystery series, a magistrate in China, during the Tang dynasty(600s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1948. The Fall, 1948 issue of Fate Magazine (Volume 1, Number 3) in Raymond A. Palmer's now-legendary paranormal-reporting non-fiction enterprise, which began with, in its first issue, Kenneth Arnold's cover account of flying crescents which "skipped like saucers across a pond", an event which, for whatever reason, kicked off the modern era of UFO events. After that, Fate introduced countless events which remain, to this day, fodder for paranormal documentaries and investigation. This Fall 1948 issue - the third issue ever - bears one of the handful of truly iconic Fate covers, that being "The Red River Witch" (see scan). 12mo, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 128 pp. A Near Fine copy - and this one is as near fine as near fine gets, with just touch micro-edgewear and an almost indiscernible degree of color fade as you look toward the spine. See scans. Standard toning to the interior newsprint-grade pages, but these are supple, clean and and unchipped. Highest Grade, particularly for a periodical which often shows substantial wear from use. This issue features articles on the memorable Red River Witch, Charles Fort, a Kenneth Arnold reprise on phantom lights in Nevada, The Valley of Never-Come-Back, America's White Sunworshippers (A Thor Heyerdahl piece), The Flying Jigsaw Puzzle, America's Most Famous Ghost Story, The Temple Girls of India, The Black Art, Two Girls, One Body, The Devil, ESP events and of course much, much else, including the standard Departments, always engrossing in themselves. Interior art and photography is largely uncredited. A piece of paranormal history, and an example of a unique branch of Americana, in very highly collectible condition. Please see scans. l50n.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 206. Original cloth. Pictorial endpapers. The unclipped d/w is rubbed and has ragged tears to the head of spine and the top of the front fold-over. Scratch to centre of the title page.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1967. Scribners. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. With Nine Illustrations Drawn by The Author In Chinese Style. 204 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery China Dutch. DESCRIPTION - THE PHANTOM OF THE TEMPLE is a detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630700. The book features nine illustrations by the author and a map of the town of Lan-fang. Judge Dee, a magistrate in the fictional Lan-fang district has a problem: a mysterious phantom is haunting a Buddhist temple. In addition, some 20 bars of gold have gone missing, not to mention the merchant's beautiful daughter. When a body is discovered without a head, Judge Dee must quickly solve the case. Lan-fang was the setting for another Judge Dee novel, THE CHINESE MAZE MURDERS and two short stories from JUDGE DEE AT WORK. inventory #3267.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. With nine illustrations drawn by the author. A near fine copy, tight and square, with no marks or inscriptions, some minor toning to the page-block. Maps printed to the endpapers. Complete with the Paul Castell designed dustwrapper which is rubbed, creased and nicked to extremities, with a small chip to the top of the front panel. Not price-clipped (18s to the front flap). The thirteenth Judge Dee mystery. (Hubin) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue with gilt lettering on spine. Appears unread, no markings. Jacket has slight rubbing. edge wrinkle.

First Edition. THE PHANTOM OF THE TEMPLE, Scribners, 1967, first American edition, reduced price stamp on the upper fore edge corner of the title page, else fine and bright in like pictorial dust-wrapper. Judge Dee.

First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the First UK Edition. A softcover. A tiny bit of surface loss to the bottom left-hand corner of the front cover crease to the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover and reading creases to the spine otherwise VG indeed. Judge Dee proofs are quite uncommon these days. Photographs/scans available upon request.