By Agatha Christie
New York   Dodd, Mead, and Company
8.5" by 5.5" [8], 280pp
A great copy of this first edition of this U.S. anthology of fifteen brilliant short stories by Agatha Christie.
By Agatha Christie

1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories

New York   Dodd, Mead, and Company
8.5" by 5.5" [8], 280pp
A great copy of this first edition of this U.S. anthology of fifteen brilliant short stories by Agatha Christie.
£185.00
: 0.5kgs / : 966P45

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first printing, of this anthology, which was only published in the U.S..

In the original unclipped dust wrapper.

This anthology contains a total of fifteen short stories by the Queen of Crime, which had all originally been published from 1925 to 1934, in the anthologies 'The Listerdale Mystery', and 'The Hound of Death'.

Tales in this anthology include the two titular tales 'The Listerdale Mystery' and 'The Hound of Death', alongside 'The Girl in the Train', 'The Manhood of Edward Robinson', 'Magnolia Blossom', and more.

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. Faint dampstain to the tail of the spine and joints. A touch of fading to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is generally smart, spine is sunned, with light handling marks, and a label to the head of the rear wrap. Small tidemark to the tail of the spine to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

Near Fine

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