By Agatha Christie

Published: London The Crime Club, by Collins

Size: 8" by 5.5" Pagination: 8-192pp

An exceptional example of the first edition of Agatha Christie's detective novel, following Hercule Poirot in post-War England.

By Agatha Christie

1948 Taken at the Flood

Name: 1948 Taken at the Flood
SKU: 924F30
Price: 150 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: London The Crime Club, by Collins

Size: 8" by 5.5" Pagination: 8-192pp

An exceptional example of the first edition of Agatha Christie's detective novel, following Hercule Poirot in post-War England.

£150.00

weight: 0.5kgs / stock code: 924F30

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Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first UK edition, first impression.

Set in 1946, in this novel follows Hercule Poirot as he untangles the family history of a young widow, and those who would rather she weren’t the sole inheritor of her second husband’s fortune.

Crime writer and lecturer Robert Barnard later favourably reviewed the novel as a 'compul

The novel was initially published seven months prior in the USA, under the title 'There is a Tide...'.

With the bookplate of Carl A Jacobsson to the front pastedown.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright.

Overall: Near Fine

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