Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Agatha Christie. THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE A White Circle Pocket Novel. Collins Crime Club, 1950.
Price: US$5.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to soft cover book . Pages are clean,tanned and tight. Circa 1950s.Address on half title.Front hinge is cracking very slightly.
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The publishing date is not stated, the advertised price is one shilling or ten cents and the books were called, 'The Bob Novels.' The book has a tear at top of the spine for five cm, tears to the front and rear hinges to half their length with the webbing intact. The dust jacket is not price clipped, five per cent is missing and it has tears.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Christie, Agatha. A Murder is Announced. The Crime Club Collins, London, 1950.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: The boards are quite badly stained. The front panel has a ring stain, five small dark marks and some light staining across the top half. The rear panel has one inch bands of fading at the top and along the right side, some white spotting to the bottom half and several black marks around the bottom left corner - possibly ink stains. The spine is faded and there is rubbing and bumping to the corners. Browning to the page edges with a one inch stain to the bottom edges. There are one inch creases to two top corners, the pages are slightly browned and the book has a slight musty smell but the pages are otherwise unmarked. No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
CHRISTIE, Agatha. A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. Collins, London, 1950.
Price: US$19.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Head and tail of spine and board edges worn. Boards are rubbed, stained and discoloured. Spine is heavily sunned. Corners of boards are bumped. Boards are covered in plastic. Page edges foxed, discoloured and stained. Pages are discoloured, some pages contain foxing and/or staining. Some pages are creased. Front free endpaper has top righthand corner missing, blue ink visible along edges of cut. Pages are thumbed, else this book is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.
Seller: Uncle Peter's Books, Clunes, NSW, Australia
Price: US$49.63 + shipping
Description: First Australian Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 256; bound in publishers mustard cloth, title lettered in black on spine, dustjacket chipped and worn several small pieces missing, fair copy. The 50th novel of Agatha Christie.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Agatha Christie. A Murder is Announced. The Crime Club, Collins, 1950.
Price: US$51.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1950. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. A Murder is Announced. Collins Crime Club, 1950.
Price: US$56.03 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1950. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Notable stain to fore-edge. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Book is cocked.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
CHRISTIE, Agatha.. Death in the Clouds.. The Crime Club by Collins London. N.d. s, 1950.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Description: Crime Club by Collins. No date. Hardback with DW. Small 8vo. Boards are slightly bowed, and a little faded along bottom margin. Pages are browned and wrapper is a little worn and chipped, lacking a couple of small portions o/w a very good copy overall.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Three Act Tragedy. The Crime Club by Collins, London, 1950.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A popular Hercule Poirot novel, this copy being an early reprint of this gripping murder mystery. Undated, dated from the list of titles to the reverse of the half-title; 'A Murder is Announced' is the most recent title listed.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Three Act Tragedy' is the eleventh Hercule Poirot novel.In this popular novel, Poirot attends a dinner party hosted by his friend, stage actor Charles Cartwright. Whilst enjoying themselves, one of the guests suddenly drops dead after taking a sip of one of the cocktails.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. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the boards and spine. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, with some small closed tears, with a small amount of loss of paper to the joints. Minor marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned and clean. Prior owner's pencil inscription to the half-title. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
CHRISTIE, Agatha.. Death in the Clouds.. Collins, London. [c 1950], 1950.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Description: Reissue in the ''1/6 net'' series. Octavo. 252 pages. Published without endpapers. A Poirot mystery featuring a murder on an airliner.Cheap paper with its inevitable tanning. Some oxidising to titles on spine. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. Very good in very good dustwrapper rubbed and chipped at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Three Act Tragedy; Death in the Clouds; N or M?. Collins 1950-1951, London, 1950.
Price: US$179.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bright trio of popular Agatha Christie novels published by the Collins Crime Club, in their original unclipped dust wrappers. Three novels in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Collins Crime Club, an imprint of William Collins, Sons & Co., ran from 1930 to 1994. Pre-war first editions in their vibrant dust wrappers are now particularly sought-after. Three Act Tragedy and Death in the Clouds, featuring the widely beloved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, are both undated but estimated to be 1950 editions from the list of titles to the verso of the half-title, in which 'A Murder is Announced' is the most recent title listed. Poirot must link together three mysterious deaths in the former, and unravel a murder on an aeroplane flight in the latter. Also included in this selection is a 1951 edition of N or M?, in which the lively duo Tommy and Tuppence investigate two German spies. In publisher's original cloth bindings, with original unclipped dust wrappers. Overall, cloth remains bright and smart, with light shelf wear to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned. Tape repairs to the verso of the dust wrapper to Three Act Tragedy, reinforcing the chipped areas to the head and tail of the spine and folds of the flaps. Just some light shelf wear to the dust wrappers of Death in the Clouds and N or M. Overall, dust wrappers remain bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. A Murder is Announced. The Crime Club by Collins, London Uk, 1950.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A scarce first edition copy of A Murder is Announced. Advertsied as the "jubilee" novel, "For The 50th Time The Queen of Detection Defies Her Readers". A Miss Marple crime novel. Bright original red cloth boards with black lettering. A stain on page 29 lightly affecting the surrounding pages. Fold on page 256. The unclipped dust jacket has chipping and loss to the spine end fold ends. Loss affecting the lettering on the top of the spine. Small internal tape repairs. Faded rear panel. 8vo. 256pp.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom