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Agatha Christie Mallowan. Come, Tell Me How You Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$46.31 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. A rare find. Contains 16 illustrations and a map. The hardcover shows some wear with some fading and marks in places. The lettering has worn from the spine. The corners of the covers are bowed inwards.Otherwise the cover is intact and in fair condition. The binding is sound. There are no loose pages. All page edges have a decorative blue stain. Some of the stain has faded in places. The very last page has a small tear at the bottom of the page. This has not impacted any of the font. Otherwise, although yellowed, the pages are in good condition.
Seller: Q's Books Hamilton, Hamilton, NSW, Australia
Agatha Christie Mallowan. Come, Tell me How you Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 235 grams. With sixteen illustrations and a map.
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
Christie Mallowan, Agatha. Come Tell Me How You Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Account of Agatha Christie's journeys in Syria with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, giving an intimate insight into their travels together as well as many of the inspirations which fed into her novels and plays. CONDITION Red bds, 192 pages with b/w photos and one map.Faded top edge, top cnrs curved. DJ worn with loss to much of spine, top rear and chips. Has has a damp splash causing red bleed to inside DJ, and faint water mark to some pages. Clean and bright internally. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Mallowan, Agatha Christie. Come Tell Me How You Live. Collins, 1946.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mystery writer Agatha Christie's adventures with her archaeologist husband. Clean in bright covers. Wartime paper. With illustrations. Bump to upper corner and cover fabric with a few light smudges. First Edition.
Seller: Eve's Book Garden, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie Mallowan; Agatha Christie. Come, Tell Me How You Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$147.30 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of the few autobiographical works written by Agatha Christie, this memoir looks at her time travelling with her husband, a superb first edition copy. The first edition, first impression.An autobiographical work by Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie.'Come, Tell Me How You Live' offers an insight into Christie's experiences travelling alongside her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan. Her memoir provides an intriguing look at how her travels inspired her in her writing, particularly evident in some of her later crime fiction.Illustrated with a map of Syria and Mesopotamia to the frontispiece, and eight plates.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is faded. A few very small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Description: First edition. Collins, London. 1946. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 191 pages. Boards lightly soiled and worn, pages browned otherwise a sound copy in roughly price-clipped wrapper that has some discolouration, is creased and worn to spine and has wear to extremities incl. small chips to spine ends and lacks a small triangle portion to foot of upper panel.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Christie Mallowan (Agatha). Come, Tell Me How You Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 10s. 6d. The first edition of Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. A very good copy in slightly chipped and creased jacket.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Come Tell Me How You Live (in fine binding). W. Collins, 1946.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Come Tell Me How You Live" by Agatha Christie. Collins, 1946 first UK edition first printing. Book rebound in fine half leather binding, with minor rubbing to spine label, renewed endpapers, frontispiece map present, all photos present. The first edition of Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Christie Mallowan (Agatha). Come, Tell Me How You Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 10s. 6d. The first edition of Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. A very good copy; dust-jacket a little rubbed but overall very good.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Come, Tell Me How You Live. Collins, London, 1946.
Price: US$5763.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A vanishingly scarce signed first edition of this evocative travel memoir by Agatha Christie. Signed and dedicated to her secretary and friend, Carlo Fisher. The first edition, first impression with no further impressions stated. With a dedication from Christie to the front free endpaper reading:'Carlo with love from Agatha'From the library of Charlotte 'Carlo' Fisher with her bookplate to front paste down. Hired as a governess for her daughter Rosalind, Fisher would later work as Christie's secretary, transcribing a number of her novels, notably The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, considered the turning point in her literary career. The pair soon became close friends, with Fisher acting as one of very few true confidantes for the often reclusive and shy Agatha. The association of this work is not simply that of an employee of Christie, but of her closest and longest standing friend.Illustrated with a map of Syria and Mesopotamia to the frontispiece, and eight plates.Collated, complete.An exceptional copy of this work with a personal association from the greatest detective writer of all time. An exceptional provenance having passed from the possession of Carlo Fisher to Rolling Stone Charlie Watts.An unusual memoir by Christie, detailing her time spent with her archaeologist husband on digs in Iraq and Syria in the 1930s. Her time there was extremely formative to her writing, with many of her best works written and set in the region. Illustrated throughout. In the original red cloth binding. Externally smart with slight bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Fading to spine and extremities of boards. Slight cockling to rear board extremities. Internally generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places. Corner of final two leaves has been excised, not affecting the text. Marginal age toning due to paper used. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom