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Price: US$999.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE (published in the U.K. as "Parker Pyne Investigates"), published by Dodd Mead, copyright 1933 (copyright of the individual stories which were published in magazines), 1934 First Printing per date on title page (no references to subsequent printings on copyright page - there was never a 2nd Dodd Mead printing), lists to "Murder in the Calais Coach" on list of Christie books to pre-title page, red badge illustrated endpapers, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front panel, $2.00 price on DJ front flap. ONE OF THE RARER 1930s AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS. Book has no creased page corners (bump mark to last few top right page corners), no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, orange top stain is nice without drop spots (very slight fading only), barest hint of dust soiling to outer page edges which are still white (no age darkening), clean endpapers with no soiling or staining, no splitting to internal hinges (common defect with these early Dodd Mead books), no spine lean, no wear to board edges or board corners, or to spine tips (hint of shelf rubbing to bottom spine tip), no spine sun fading (common defect with this book - even with the original dust jacket), no rubbing to spine lettering, no handling/dust soiling to boards, no soiling or discoloration to boards, tiny bump along bottom edge to rear board, bumped board rear corner. Dust jacket has irregular chipping at spine tips, wear to flap creases (large nick losses at flap crease corners), hint of edge wear, very slight spine sun fadening, almost no wear to left/right on spine, no color rubbing to front panel, slight dust rubbing/age yellowing to off-white portion of rear panel, no soiling or staining. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in VG-/VG condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a rare early 1930s era Agatha Christie 1st printing. 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. MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE. Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1934.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-244 [245] [246: ad] [247-248: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. Collection of twelve short stories first published in England by Collins in 1934 as Parker Pyne Investigates. "On rereading, the collection holds up very well." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime: Revised and Enlarged Edition (1989) #3691. Hubin, p. 164. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 25. Several very faint water strikes to cloth on front cover, a bright, near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with 10 x 35 mm chip from head of spine panel, tiny chips from upper front corner tips, and shelf wear at tail of spine panel and lower corner tips. (25645)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE .. Dodd, New York, 1934.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-244 [245] [246: ad] [247-248: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Dodd, Mead "Red Badge" mystery. Collection of twelve short stories first published in England by Collins in 1934 as PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATES. "On rereading, the collection holds up very well." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2420. Hubin (1994), p. 164. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 25. Several very faint water strikes to cloth on front cover, a bright, near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with 10 x 35 mm chip from head of spine panel, tiny chips from upper front corner tips, and shelf wear at tail of spine panel and lower corner tips. Rare in jacket. (#80310)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2886.01 + shipping
Description: [Murder Mystery cases] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.vi; 245 [5]. Publisher's bright orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Top edge orange, fore-edge untrimmed, and patterned endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $2.00. A crisp, clean copy in a fresh dust-jacket with light wear to spine tips and corners. An exceptional copy, being rather uncommon in jacket. Near fine. A collection of twelve stories featuring Parker Pyne, consulting detective; curiously the eleventh episode is entitled "Death on the Nile", which should not to be confused with the famous Poirot novel published two years later.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom