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Front cover clean and colourful, light edgewear, creasing and rubbing to spine, light rubbing to rear cover, closed edges and edges of pages lightly browned, text clear to read, binding sound.

Very Good condition. (mystery, crime) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

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London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012. [Crime fiction] FACSIMILE EDITION, first thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248 [8]. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A touch of spotting and toning to top edge, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. A Hercule Poirot mystery: When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again, for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her priceless rubies are missing.

HarperCollins, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Ed Thus. Second ed. thus. Facsimile first ed. Fine/Fine condition. Includes "belly band" around dustjacket..

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1961 . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. An attractive 1961 edition of Agatha Christie's entertaining murder mystery, which was first published in 1928. A 1961 edition of this novel, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A price label to the dust wrapper front flyleaf notes 'First Cheap Edition 7/6 Net'. This is not, however, the first cheap edition of the novel; a late 1920s cheap edition was produced by the 'Bob Novels' series.This novel features Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot and is set on the French Riviera. The novel concerns the murder of an American heiress on Le Train Bleu, the titular "Blue Train". In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Chipping and small losses to dust wrapper back strip head and tail. Handling marks to tail of rear wrap, with small closed tear to head of rear wrap. Light rubbing to front wrap tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine

London: Collins, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. An early edition of Agatha Christie's Poirot story 'The Mystery of the Blue Train'. The first edition, twelfth impression. Issued seven years after the true first. Understandably lacking the very scarce original dustwrapper.A very early edition of this important Poirot novel in the Christie canon. Agatha Christie is known as the queen of Crime Fiction. She wrote during the Golden Age of the genre and created beloved detectives such as Hercule Poirot with his 'little grey cells' and the inquisitive elderly sleuth Miss Marple. The pages are unusually clean. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to he joints and extremities. Minor bumping to the bottom of board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Minor offsetting to the endpapers. Small ink mark to the bottom edge. Pages are clean. Very Good Indeed