The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei. Volume One: The Gathering.

Princeton University Press. 1993. Book is fine, excepting a very slight separation of book and binding at top of spine (common in large volumes). Jacket is very good+, with minor wrinkling of laminate at base of spine, barely noticeable under the new mylar cover. 

Volume One of a five-volume translation by David Tod Roy of the late 16th century/early 17th century Chinese novel known for its erotic realism.