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1949 Crooked House
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first U.S. edition, first printing. This U.S. edition preceded the U.K. first by two months.
In the original unclipped dust wrapper.
A standalone novel, 'Crooked House' was one of Christie's personal favourites of her works, set in and around London in the autumn of 1947.
Three generations of a family harbouring numerous secrets live together under one roof. When the family patriarch, Aristide Leonides, is poisoned with his own eye medicine, the killer must be apprehended.
Agatha Christie is one of the most prolific and successful detective writers of her time, writing sixty-six detective novels in total. She is best known for her protagonists Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Very light edge wear and rubbing tot he dust wrapper. Blind stamp to the head of the spine. Spine is a little sunned. Tape repair to the reverse of the dust wrapper, with aged tape marks to the fly leaves. Dust wrapper is trimmed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Near Fine
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