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By: Lancing, George (pseudonym of Bluebell M. Hunter)
Price: $32.50
Publisher: New York, Lee Furman: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013559
Condition: Fair to Good
Set in China, and telling in fictional form the story of the Empress Dowager. The story of a beautiful young woman named Orchid who, on her way to Pekin to meet her betrothed, meets "the handsome young son of a country cobbler." An unusual relationship is subsequently formed between the girl who has grown up "with the feeling that she was one day destined to be the Empress of China," and the young man whose service as Palace Attendant in the Imperial Court requires that he first be castrated (that is one *hell* of a job-description requirement). Red cloth w/black spine letterin... View more info
