Christie, Agatha
The Murder at the Vicarage
£454
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: published for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1930. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 254 pp., contemporary blue cloth possibly for Boots (with trace of their characteristic label to foot of front board), spine lettered and ruled in gilt, half-title, advertisement leaf to rear, front free endpaper with small ink-stamp of one A.C. Doull, C.A. (recorded as secretary and treasurer of the Royal Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh), spine rolled, cloth slightly rubbed and marked, traces of labels to pastedowns, a few leaves reinforced in gutter, staining to pp. 78-9, several leaves dog-eared, rear inner hinge partially split with webbing visible
Footnote
The first Miss Marple novel.