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Agatha Christie. Five Little Pigs. The Crime Club Collins, 1942.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red boards sunned and marked as per photo. Edges bumped and frayed, spine browned and frayed top, small slit bottom, cocked. No dust jacket. Bookseller agent and ink price on ffep. Pages browned but otherwise clean, spine hinge slightly loose on some pages.
Seller: Secret Bookshop, Johannesburg, GAUTE, South Africa
Agatha Christie. Five Little Pigs. Collins. Crime Club, 1942.
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition First impression. 1942. Boards show age, minor bumping to corners and some fading to spine. Overall in VG condition. Internally, no inscriptions, clean bright and square throughout. A Very good + copy.
Seller: William Collins Rare and Collectable Books, Grimsby, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Five Little Pigs [First UK Edition]. The Crime Club; Collins, 1942.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1942. First UK Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Notable cracking in several places throughout, most pronounced at pages 16, 32. Moderate liquid stains at bottom corners of pages 75 to 77. Minor mark to rear endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild sunning to board edges and heavy to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Visible brown spots to rear board. Mild water droplets to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$1127.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIVE LITTLE PIGS, 1st/1st 1942, Agatha Christie, Very Good, original dust jacket No signatures, inscriptions or bookplates Dust jacket with small losses at spine ends, closed tears, not price clipped.
Seller: Berrishill Books, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Five Little Pigs. Collins for The Crime Club,, London UK, 1942.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A scarce first edition of the crime thriller, Five Little Pigs. Original red cloth boards with black lettering on the spine. Faded on the upper boards. Clean contents with piece missing on page 147/8 not affecting text. The bright price clipped dust jacket has chipping and loss to the spine affecting the lettering. Internal tape repair on the upper edge of the dust jacket. 8vo 192pp.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$2898.59 + shipping
Description: [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the yellow and pink typographic dust-jacket. Some spotting and toning to edges, otherwise crisp and clean internally. Jacket shows some marks and spotting, with wear and light chipping to edges, somewhat raggedly price-clipped. Near fine. A Hercule Poirot mystery, published in America as 'Murder in Retrospect'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3220.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Signed by David Suchet to the title page, who played Poirot in the TV adaptation of the book. A page seemingly extracted from an autograph book bearing the author's signature is loosely laid in. Original cloth with black lettering to spine. Previous owner name to front endpaper; some sunning to spine and faint soiling to boards in places and rubbing to edges; corners a touch bumped with a small and faint area of soiling to rear endpaper and slight cracking to rear hinge. The original dust jacket is complete and unclipped with a little loss to spine foot, a few tears to edges and some toning to spine panel verso.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom