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DEATH COMES AT THE END.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1945) dj. Hardcover first edition - Christie's only historical mystery, although as the wife of an archeologist, she had taken part in several expeditions to Egypt. This is set in Thebes, in ancient Egypt, in 2000 B.C. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-553-350137.
Condition: Good only in red board in a good dustjacket (some edgewear to the boards, and fading to the edges, previous owner's name dated 1945, in a price-clipped dust jacket with some minor edgewear.)
Book ID: 87924More details Price: $250.00 -
IMPRESSIONS EN ROUTE.
Edition: First edition.
Los Angeles: Saturday Night Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover first edition - First publication in book form of the author's letters from a Mediterranean trip - a journey which took him to Madeira, Granada, Seville, Tunis, Carthage, Athens, Constantinople, Cairo, Thebes, Abydos, Luxor, Capri, and elsewhere. Full of interesting sidelights and comments - for example, Henry Timkin, the inventor of the revolutionary tapered roller bearings, and his wife were among the passengers and this leads to a digression on the need in California of faster transcontinental railroads; a brief comment "oil makes the world go round. Will oil be the cause of a future conflict?" Illustrated with 22 half-tone photographic plates by the author, with titled tissue guards. 117 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good- in quarter green cloth over grey boards, decorated in gilt. Paper label on spine is no longer legible and the title was written in ink underneath it. Sunning to the spine and tidemark along outer edges of the boards.
Book ID: 59270More details Price: $25.00
