The Before Midnight Scholar

Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering and light blue decorative title label to spine. In striking pictorial dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegener. Slightly rubbed to edges, and with a small closed tear to tail of spine fold. A bright and clean copy. *** First UK edition.Translated by Richard Martin from the German version by Franz Kuhn. Erotic tale originally published in China in the mid-17th century, and well worth translating into English this many years later.