CHRISTIE, Agatha
4.50 From Paddington
Collins Crime Club: 1957
- $338
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with black titles. Grey and red typographical dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. Internally complete with no spotting to textblock edges. Usual toning to leaves. No inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper has some edgewear with small nick to top & bottom left spine tip/corner o/w complete. Some dustiness with a few spots to rear wrapper panel. None of the usual heavy fading to red spine & white spine lettering. The original price of 12s6dnet to front flap. Wagstaff & Poole p.207. A Miss Marple novel. Two trains pass each other in the night - a glimpse of a possible murder flashed by. On arrival at the her destination Elspeth receives little sympathy for her fleeting images but on the fortunate arrival of Jane Marple the potential investigation takes on a new level of credibility.
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