Lot 160
Christie, Agatha
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs | 09 May 2007
Description
A collection of 17 early works, First editions, all lacking dustwrappers, comprising: The secret adversary 1922 [lacking backstrip, tape marks, ex-library], Murder on the links 1923 [boards damaged. heavily rubbed], The man in the brown suit 1924 [rebacked, foxing], The big four 1927 [rubbed, stain on upper board, lacking rear endpaper], The underdog 1929 [hinges split, backstrip faded], The murder at the vicarage 1930 [foxing], Lord Edgeware dies 1933 [boards faded and stained], The hound of death 1933 [Partial dustwrapper, ink inscription], Parker Pyne investigates 1934 [boards stained], Why didn't they ask Evans? 1934 [boards stained, backstrip loose], Death in the clouds 1935 [stained and faded], Cards on the table 1936 [faded, foxing], Murder in Mesopotamia 1936 [sunned], Dumb Witness 1937 [faded, foxed], Hercule Poirot's Christmas 1939 [faded, foxed], One, two buckle my shoe 1940, Three Act Tragedy 1935 [faded] (17)