The Virgin Market, C.Y. Lee, Doubleday & Company, First Edition, 1964, HC, VG.

Lee, C.Y. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. 

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4", 6 + 233 pp.

Red cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, minor cocking to spine, partially peeled sticker to front pastedown, light wear to tips, head, and tail, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Good pictorial dust jacket, featuring color illustration to front and spine, black lettering to front, back, and spine, red and black lettering to interior flaps, black pen writing to front interior flap: "7/64", two chips and 3/4" partially-closed tear to spine, minor chips and tears to edges, tips, head, and tail, some toning to edges and spine, light shelf wear and soiling to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 6 + 233 pp. Includes 25 chapters. From inside dust jacket: "This novel is about Lum Sin's attempts to get a motorized junk, about Pigtail's hopes of marrying a young fisherman named Ah Woo, and about an American doctor's involvement in their problems. Eventually a fortune teller, a white slaver, and half the floating population of Hong Kong Bay are caught up in the ruckus which develops over Pigtail, Lum Sin and the motorized junk. This results in a story that is always colorful, sometimes hilarious, and often very moving."