Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Christie, Agatha:. Death Comes as the End.. London: Collins Crime Club 1945?., 1945.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Series: White Circle 160p period paperback, green design to cover, a little dusty, still very good Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
CHRISTIE, Agatha. Death Comes as the End. Collins, London, 1945.
Price: US$80.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed for the publishers in New Zealand. Date not stated (1945). Light brown cloth titled in black on the spine. Clean boards, very light foxing in endpapers, a small gift inscription in front. The dust jacket is a full facsimile of the correct jacket for this edition, identical to the first UK edition, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve.
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$89.66 + shipping
Description: Hb original orange cloth , black titles to spine , 160 pp ( No internal inscriptions ) Spine lightly sunned o/w A Vg copy
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As The End. Collins Crime Club, London, 1945.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, second impression, April 1945. Red cloth binding with printed title, a little faded at extremities; slight spotting to fore-edge; simple ownership signature to front endpaper; couple of small tone marks o/w very clean internally; pp.111/112 with a corner crease. The jacket is price-clipped, a little chipped at corners o/w VG. A scarce early printing. 160pp
Seller: Trafford Books PBFA, Manchester, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Death Comes as the End. Collins - The Crime Club, 1945.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Indian edition from 1945. The book has heavy toning to front and rear endpages. Other pages are clean, binding is firm but with a spine lean, The jacket has some wear and has been trimmed very slightly, overall in very good condition, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As The End. Collins, London, 1945.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1945 hardcover with dust jacket. 2nd impression. The book is in very good condition clean, square and tight. The dust jacket is also very good, clean and bright. chipped and bumped to top and bottom of spine. see photos. postage covers Fedex delivery.
Seller: edward syndercombe, Pretoria, GAUTE, South Africa
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As the End. The Crime Club, Collins, UK, 1945.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1945. Contemporary name inscription to front pastedown, contents unblemished throughout. No foxing or toning. Near VG. In a VG price clipped dust jacket which has some loss to top edge of back cover. "Death Comes as the End" is a historical mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Unlike many of her other works, this novel is set in ancient Egypt, specifically in Thebes during the 20th dynasty around 2000 BC. The story revolves around the wealthy and influential family of Imhotep, a high-ranking official. When a mysterious series of deaths occurs, the family becomes entangled in a web of suspicion, betrayal, and intrigue. The protagonist, Renisenb, Imhotep's daughter, attempts to uncover the truth behind the deaths while navigating the complexities of family dynamics and ancient Egyptian society. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that the motives for murder are deeply rooted in personal relationships and long-buried secrets. The novel combines Agatha Christie's signature mystery elements with an exotic historical setting, offering a unique and compelling whodunit in an ancient Egyptian context.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As the End. The Crime Club, Collins, UK, 1945.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club by Collins 1945. No inscriptions, unblemished throughout. No foxing or toning. Near fine. In a VG price clipped dust jacket which has some loss to top edge of back cover.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Sparkling Cyanide - UK 1st w/Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped. Collins (U.K.), 1945.
Price: US$274.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - SPARKLING CYANIDE published by Collins, copyright 1945, FIRST PRINTING (says "Copyright -- Printed in Great Britain -- 1945" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings, lists to "Death Comes As The End" on list of Christie books to left of title page, redish orange boards with black lettering on spine, correct 1st state DJ with blank rear flap and generic Christie reviews to rear panel, and 8s. 6d. net price on DJ front flap (later state DJs had a lower price point). Book has no creased page corners, no former ownership markings or used book store marks/stamps/stickers inside, scotch tape residue mark at front internal hinge (tape long since fallen off) otherwise clean endpapers with no markings, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, slight age darkening/dust soiling to outer page edges, no spine lean, tight white pages with sharp corners, no wear to board edges or corners or spine tips, very slight spine sun darkening, hint of dust/handling soiling to boards otherwise no soiling or stains, no wear/loss to black spine lettering. Dust jacket missing lower half of spine (copied DJ has been laid in loose behind the DJ inside the DJ protector to improve shelf appearance), sliver loss at top of spine otherwise no chipping, tearing, or creasing, slight wear to front flap crease (nick losses at flap crease corners), slight spine sun darkening, slight dust soiling to white rear panel (very common defect with this DJ) otherwise no soiling or staining to panels, hint of edge wear. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in GD+ condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a rare WW II era UK Agatha Christie 1st printing with original dust jacket. I have a number of other U.K. and U.S. Agatha Christie 1st printing hardcover books up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha.. DEATH COMES AT THE END.. London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1945) dj, 1945.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First UK printing. Christie's only historical mystery, although as the wife of an archeologist, she had taken part in several expeditions to Egypt. This is set in Thebes, in ancient Egypt, in 2000 B.C. 160 pp. Good only in red board in a good dustjacket (some edgewear to the boards, and fading to the edges, previous owner's name dated 1945, in a price-clipped dust jacket with some minor edgewear.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition - New Zealand. The art work of the dust jacket is the same as that of the First English Edition. Small bookshop stamp. Slight foxing to the endpapers, else a near fine copy in a very good bright dust jacket with some light dust soiling to the rear panel and very minor darkening to the spine with a few tiny tears and nicks. The front panel of the dust jacket is a bold graphic illustration of an Egyptian sarcophagus lying on an ornate platform set upon a golden barge floating on water while being towed.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. Death Comes As The End. London Collins 1945, 1945.
Price: US$621.22 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Published by Collins, London, in 1945. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper has chipping to the spine tips and to the corners - mostly to the bottom of the spine. It has not been price clipped and shows 7s 6d. The internal pages are generally clean and with a neat name the top of the front endpaper. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and are generally clean with a little off-setting married to the chipping evident on the dust wrapper. The text blocks are bright and white throughout and free from foxing. This is a very good copy of a fine, rare title. It is the only one of Christie's novels not to be set in the 20th century, and - unusually for her - also features no European characters. Instead, the novel is set in Thebes in 2000 BC, a setting for which Christie gained an appreciation whilst working with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan, in the Middle East. The novel is notable for its very high number of deaths and is comparable to And Then There Were None from this standpoint. It is also the first full-length novel combining historical fiction and the whodunit/detective story, a genre which would later come to be called the historical whodunit.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As The End. Collins, London, 1945.
Price: US$1523.80 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition, first printing. Collins For the Crime Club, London 1945. With the bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone (1897-1977) on paste-down frontpaper. He grew up in the area around Monterey, California and was an avid book collector all of his life. He is well known for his bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck. "As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie has taken part in several expeditions to the Near East. Drawing upon this experience, she gives us, in 'Death Comes as the End', a murder mystery laid in Ancient Egypt 4000 years ago." (from the DJ frontflap) A groundbreaking novel of the Queen of Crime. Book is near fine with clean and bright pages. Dustjacket is near fine except some miniscule signs of dusting/usage and a slightly faded spine. Unclipped with the original price (7s. 6d. net). DJ is now protected with a transparent Brodart jacket cover. Collector's Choice.
Seller: Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat, PBFA, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany