HARDBACK "UNCOMMON, " SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. thus translated from the French.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1962 * Publisher: Secker & Warburg.* Binding and cover condition: Dull dark green cloth covered boards, silver titles to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Dark mark to back board. VG.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top & fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. Metal ring for marker fixed in binding of spine. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 174 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: "I was once involved in a criminal affair whose hero cannot be regarded as a man of sound mind. Yet I was wrong to call him a madman. He wasn't mad, and experts eventually decided he was perfectly responsible for his behaviour. It was a strange case ? strange and at the same time simple." These were the words that impelled the author to return again to the restaurant in Yin-Yang to hear, and sometimes interrupt, the old Chinaman's story of Chong, the Executioner in a remote province before the rise of communism. The account of the execution which leads to Chong's downfall, and of his past, as it emerges in the colourful ceremonial of the law-court at his trial, is indeed full of surprises. The crime of which Chong is accused is itself unusual enough, but what is really strange ? so strange that the mandarins of the court never understand it is the motive or obsession that lies behind it.* A NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minor faults but no dust jacket reducing it to VG.*. Seller Inventory # 10538

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Title: The Chinese Executioner.

Publisher: Secker and Warburg.

Publication Date: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+/VG/ND

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

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Cocksparrow Books are a small on-line second hand book sellers which originated 25 years ago with a high street second-hand Book Shop in Wadhurst, East Sussex.
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