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CHRISTIE AGATHA. A Pocket Full of Rye. Crime Club, Collins, 1953.

Price: US$13.66 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1953 1st edition, 1st impression, 8vo., 191pp., small address label on rear endaper, front endpaper slightly marked, one page soiled, binding slightly cocked, good, red cloth, clipped dust jacket, slightly worn at head & tail of spine. Later imprint dust jacket.

Seller: Wyseby House Books, Newbury, WEST, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. Collins Sydney 1953, 1953.

Price: US$32.40 + shipping

Description: 1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo 207pp., No dust jacket but a very good copy of the first Australian edition

Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

CHRISTIE,, Agatha.. A POCKET FULL OF RYE.. London, Collins, 1953., 1953.

Price: US$36.91 + shipping

Description: 208pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper with small tears to top edge. Foxing on edges. A very good copy. . First Australian edition.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

Agatha Christie. A Pocket Full of Rye. Collins, 1953.

Price: US$195.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very good clean copy in original paper jacket. Jacket with some loss to top edge and stain to rear.

Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Agatha Christie. A Pocket Full of Rye.. Collins Crime Club, 1953.

Price: US$195.03 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1953. First Edition. 191 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. Collins, London, 1953.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bright and clean orange boards with bright black titles to spine. The hinges and joints remain firm and solid. Gift inscription for "x-mas 1953" season at front endpaper. Spine has light fading at crown from chip in DJ. Top front corner bumped, lower front corner lightly bumped, rear corners remain sharp. DJ is complete with just wear to corners, spine ends and light rippling to rear panel. Handsome, clean copy. BP/Case

Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.

AGATHA CHRISTIE.. A POCKET FULL OF RYE.. Collins Crime Club., London., 1953.

Price: US$227.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very good copy in its original price clipped dust jacket. 191 tight pages with none looose. No foxing. Previous owners inscription and name of the ffep. Dated 1953 on the copyright page. No other dates. first UK edition. Outer red boards are unmarked and bright in colour throughout. The jacket is price clipped but complete with only a tiny scuff to the spine tip.

Seller: Baggins Books and Collectables, Bushey Heath, HERTS, United Kingdom

Christie (Agatha). A Pocket Full of Rye. Collins Crime Club, London, 1953.

Price: US$247.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket. A poisoned nursery rhyme leads detective Miss Marple to untangle a web of deceit and murder within a wealthy family, uncovering dark secrets along the way. Ink inscription partly deleted on front endpaper; jacket chipped at spine ends and fore-corners.

Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket full Of Rye. Collins Crime Club, London, 1953.

Price: US$273.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition/First printing Published by Collins Crime Club, London 1953. Leather bound in Dark Grey Leather. Faded to spine. Bright Gilt text. No marks or inscriptions. Very clean and bright pages with very occasional mild spotting to edges. Tanned to edges.

Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. Collins Crime Club, London, 1953.

Price: US$274.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher's orange cloth titled in black. Slight faint damping to top portion of boards/top block edge, slightly visible at endpages. Trace foxing to block edge. Else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is damped to spine and rear panel with mild wrinkling, few small chips/tears to spine ends. Flap price 10/6.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

AGATHA CHRISTIE. A POCKET FULL OF RYE. THE CRIME CLUB BY COLLINS, LONDON, 1953.

Price: US$286.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE INTACT AT 10s 6d. net, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 x 5 INCHES. SOME CHIPPING TO JACKET AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH A SMALL TEAR & MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, SMALL XMAS INSCRIPTION WITH A NAME & INITIALS DATED 1953 TO FRONT ENDPAPER, OWNERS NAME TO HALF TITLE, OCCASIONAL FOXING MOSTLY TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom

Agatha Christie. A Pocket Full of Rye. The Crime Club by Collins, London UK, 1953.

Price: US$299.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original red cloth boards with black letting on the spine. Light fading on lower edge of the spine otherwise little wear. Library stamp on the front paste down and ink signature on the front free page. Some foxing of the page ends especially at the rear of the book lightly encroaching on the page. Spotting on the title page. Lightly toned pages. The bright and clean dust jacket has minimal wear and fading. Spotting and lightly toned. Some chipping and a few small tears on the edges/folds. Rear paste down has evidence of a removed label.

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

Agatha Christie. A Pocket Full of Rye. The Crime Club by Collins, London, 1953.

Price: US$312.04 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A superb copy of this thrilling Miss Marple mystery novel, by the queen of crime Agatha Christie. The first edition, first printing of this work, with no subsequent printings mentioned to the limitation page.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A thrilling Miss Marple murder mystery novel, following a mysterious death and an exciting and baffling story.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, smart. A small patch of fading to the head of the spine. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with some small chips mostly to the head and tail of the spine. A few light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976). A Pocket Full of Rye. [A Miss Marple story]. London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1953, 1953.

Price: US$325.04 + shipping

Description: [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the red and black illustrated dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges spotted/toned, jacket chipped to head and tail of spine, with a couple of tears. Very good. A murderous case for Miss Jane Marple and her new ally, the unusually receptive and astute Inspector Neele, who later assists Hercule Poirot in 'Third Girl'.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Christie (Agatha). A Pocket Full of Rye.. The Crime Club by Collins, 1953.

Price: US$357.55 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp.191, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, edges spotted, free endpapers browned, dustjacket slightly nicked and rubbed at extremities, front panel with very short closed tear, very good.

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket full Of Rye. Collins Crime Club, London, 1953.

Price: US$422.55 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition/First printing Published by Collins Crime Club, London 1953. Leather bound in Dark Grey Leather. Faded to spine. Bright Gilt text. No marks or inscriptions. Very clean and bright pages with very occasional mild spotting to edges. Tanned to edges.

Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. London Collins 1953, 1953.

Price: US$422.55 + shipping

Description: A first edition, first printing published by Collins in 1953. A very good book which has one neat name to the head of the front endpaper and a light stain to the head of the spine. In a very good+ unclipped wrapper which has some light restorative repair to the spine tips and corners. Presents well

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976). A Pocket Full of Rye. [A Miss Marple story]. London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1953, 1953.

Price: US$513.57 + shipping

Description: [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Textblock lightly toned but essentially a fine copy in a handsome leather binding. A murderous case for Miss Jane Marple and her new ally, the unusually receptive and astute Inspector Neele, who later assists Hercule Poirot in 'Third Girl'.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Christie, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. Collins Clear-Type Press: London and Glasgow, 1953.

Price: US$520.07 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first impression. Publisher's original red cloth with black lettering to spine. An excellent copy with some dustiness to top edge, in a very good dust jacket indeed with some chipping to spine head and a few small nicks to edges.

Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Agatha Christie. A Pocket Full of Rye. The Crime Club, Collins, UK, 1953.

Price: US$845.11 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1953. A fine copy which has no inscriptions and no foxing or toning to contents or edges. Covers have no bumping and are unblemished. In a bright (and remarkably well preserved) fine dust jacket that has no creasing, tears, rubbing or loss. Not price clipped. An excellent copy. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.

Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom