The Agatha Christie Hour. The Fourth Man; The Case of the Discontented Soldier; The Red Signal; The Girl in the Train; Magnolia Blossom; Jane in Search of a Job; In a Glass Darkly; The Case of the Middle-aged Wife; The Mystery of the Blue Jar; The Manhood of Edward Robinson
CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
The Agatha Christie Hour. The Fourth Man; The Case of the Discontented Soldier; The Red Signal; The Girl in the Train; Magnolia Blossom; Jane in Search of a Job; In a Glass Darkly; The Case of the Middle-aged Wife; The Mystery of the Blue Jar; The Manhood of Edward Robinson
CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
Publisher: London: Collins, 1982
London: Collins, 1982. [Short Stories] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Recently re-bound in black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. With the original pink dust-jacket bound in at rear, including flaps. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. A broad selection of 10 short stories, chosen for the TV series of the same name.
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
Murder at the Vicarage; The Mystery of the Blue Train; The Body in the Library; Death Comes as the End; Murder in Mesopotamia; Peril at End House
Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage; The Mystery of the Blue Train; The Body in the Library; Death Comes as the End; Murder in Mesopotamia; Peril at End House
Agatha Christie
Publisher: The Crime Club, Collins
Date published: 1966-1971
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1966-1971 . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A striking collection of six novels from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, each in the vibrant original dust wrapper. A wonderful collection of some of the best known works of the prolific novelist Agatha Christie, best known for her investigators Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.Each of these six volumes is in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Present here are:'Murder in Mesopotamia' (1966), first published in 1936.'The Body in the Library' (1968), first published in 1942.'The Murder at the Vicarage' (1930), first published in 1969.'The Mystery of the Blue Train' (1970), first published in 1928.'Death Comes as the End' (1970), first published in 1945.'Peril at End House' (1971), first published in 1932. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip of 'Peril', 'Murder', 'Train', 'Library'. Edgewear to back strip heads of two dust wrappers. Light handling marks to rear wraps. Internally, firmly bound, but with title page of 'Train' detached but present. Pages age toned to perimeters due to paper type, but clean. Very Good
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel
Christie, Agatha
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel
Christie, Agatha
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn
Date published: 1969-1972
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972. A set of 24 volumes in dust wrappers. All in very good condition with top stains intact. A lovely set.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 306 pages, 8vo. First US Edition, First Impression, with no later impressions stated on copyright page. 1928 date printed on title page. Light blue cloth boards with orange lettering on spine and front cover, embossed train on front cover, orange top stain. Dust-jacket price is clipped. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears and chipping along edges and spine, heavy spine fade, some light tanning. DJ in mylar. Light tanning along page edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..
New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5.5". None. An exceptional copy of the first US edition of this early Christie, complete in a lovely example of the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first US edition, first impression, with no further impressions stated. First published in the UK earlier the same year. In the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper, with correct $2.00 price. The dust wrapper has benefitted from sensitive restoration.A gripping Hercule Poirot murder mystery, set on le Train Bleu to the French Riviera, on which a woman is found strangled, and the famous ruby she owned is discovered to be missing.An exceptional copy of this early Poirot, written by the Queen of Detective Fiction. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in excellent condition, with just minor bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine, causing minor splitting to the cloth to the back strip. The odd mark to the boards, including scattered white spotting to rear board. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition, and has benefitted from sensitive restoration to joints, fore edge, head and foot and a small portion or restoration to upper panel. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just marginal age toning and the odd spot. Very Good Indeed
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