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THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS.
Edition: Facsimile edition - first thus.
London: Harper Collins, (2007) dj. Hardcover - First printing of this facsimile edition of this early Christie novel, a story of multiple assumed identities, originally published in 1925. Includes the wrap-around band publicizing these facsimile editions. 205 pp. ISBN: 978-0-007265213.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket. Although published relatively recently, these editions, complete with the priced advertising band, are relatively uncommon on the market.
Book ID: 85502More details Price: $85.00 -
CROOKED HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1949) dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic novel by Christie, full of her trademark sudden twists. . A standalone work set in London mostly and one of Christie's favorites. 192 pp.
Condition: Very good in red boards with black lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket (name on front endpaper, light toning to pages, small chips to the dust jacket at the ends of the spine,and light creasing near the upper edge, hint of sunning to spine, but overall bright and attractive, original price of 6s net still present on dj flap)
Book ID: 87758More details Price: $275.00 -
MRS. McGINTY'S DEAD.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1952) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nystery featuring Hercule Poirot and writer Ariadne Oliver, as Poirot tries to unravel why an ordinary charwoman was murdered. Basis for the 1964 movie, 'Murder Most Foul.' 188 pp. plus 4 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth in a near fine dust jacket (usual light toning, slight sunning to spine of dj, original price of 9s 6d net on dj flap- overall a very attractive and clean copy)
Book ID: 87768More details Price: $350.00 -
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK.
Edition: First printing.
London: Crime Club / Collins, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the nursery rhyme mysteries, featuring Hercule Poirot - "another masterpiece of detection." 195 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (offsetting to endpapers, usual sunning to the spine of the dj.) Not an uncommon title but rather hard to find in this condition.
Book ID: 87793More details Price: $200.00 -
CARDS ON THE TABLE.
Edition: Early vintage reprint of this novel originally published in 1936,
New York: Collier Books, (c 1936) dj. Hardcover - "Murder over the bridge table; somebody trumped with a thin steel dagger to the heart!" An early Hercule Poirot mystery. 262 pp.
Condition: Near fine (toning to the pages) in embossed burgundy cloth in a fine facsimile dust jacket with the art from the Grosset and Dunlap edition.
Book ID: 87831More details Price: $45.00 -
ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1972) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring Hercule Poirot mystery and novelist Ariadne Oliver. 243 pp. . ISBN: 0-00-2312107.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 87920More details Price: $16.50 -
DESTINATION UNKNOWN.
Edition: First printing.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic novel by Christie, full of her trademark sudden twists, but unusual in that it is in the world of espionage, set in Morocco where the wife of a vanished scientist has gone "on vacation?". 192 pp.
Condition: Very good in red boards in a very good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages,some spine slant, wear to the dj at the ends of the spine and the corners, price-clipped)
Book ID: 88033More details Price: $100.00 -
SCOOP & BEHIND THE SCREEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Two "long-lost" short novels originally written in 1930 and 1931 and designed to be broadcast. While they were published as serials in the BBC's weekly periodical, The Listener, they have never before been published in book form, written by 8 members of the Detection Club: Christie, Sayers, E.C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Ronald Knox, Freeman Willis Crofts, Hugh Walpole, and Clemence Dane. Introduction by Julian Symons. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-06039031X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74213More details Price: $20.00 -
HE WOULDN'T KILL PATIENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Hampton Publishing Company / William Morrow, 1944. Hardcover first edition - A scarce classic locked room mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters and set against the backdrop of blackouts and bombings in the early days of the London Blitz. "Patience" is tree-snake from Borneo, and when it appears that Benton, the director of the Royal Albert Zoological Gardens has committed suicide, his daughter is sure that he did not do it, because "he wouldn't kill Patience."
Condition: Very good in salmon-colored boards - some light toning to the page, but otherwise a tight, clean and straight copy. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 83388More details Price: $75.00 -
ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE MURDERS: Tales of Perfidious Albion.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover - "Classic Crime Fiction Of Britain's Upper Crust" edition and with an introduction by Thomas Godfrey. Includes stories by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy Sayers Margery Allingham, P. D. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Ngaio Marsh, R. Austin Freeman, Christianna Brand and more. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-892963557.
Condition: Good (binding cracked before half title page, gift inscription) in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79054More details Price: $12.50 -
APPLEBY'S END.
Edition: First printing.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1945. Hardcover first edition - An early mystery novel featuring Detective Inspector John Appleby - the title refers to a railroad station. It is in this novel that a young Appleby becomes engaged to the sculptor Judith Raven. Printed on very thin wartime paper. 152 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very near fine example of the distinctive yellow, red and black dustjackets used by Gollancz (uncommon in the first edition and especially so in this condition.) .
Book ID: 70880More details Price: $100.00 -
DEATH BY REQUEST.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Hogarth Press, (1984). Reissue of the only crime novel published by this married couple (she is best known for her works of translation) but one with the typical twists and turns of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Originally published in 1933, this edition includes a new Introduction by Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan. The Hogarth Crime Series focuses on re-issuing both unjustly forgotten crime novels and those justly famous from this era. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-701219130.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66639More details Price: $12.50 -
FOLLOW THAT BLUE CAR.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. Hardcover first edition - Extremely uncommon second title in the Tolefree series - "Tolefree receives an anonymous letter telling him, "If you happen to be on the Paybury Road to-morrow afternoon, the 28th . . . you will encounter something of considerable interest. . . . Look out for an unmistakably blue car--and keep your eye on it." 319 pp. ISBN: my18.
Condition: Very good in the original blue (of course) cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Sunning to the spine, slightly cocked, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.
Book ID: 87707More details Price: $150.00
