Christie, Agatha. Partners In Crime. W. Collins Sons & Co., London, 1929.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 251, [4] pages. An early issue, with The Mysterious Mr Quin not listed. Rubbing and light soil to cloth; light foxing and a few small stains to first few leaves; small chip off lower outer corner of a number of leaves. Binding is sound; no inscriptions. 7.5 x 5.25.

Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada

Agatha Christie. Partners in Crime. W. Collins Sons & Co., London, 1929.

Price: US$249.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION rebound in modern dark brown leather over maroon cloth with gilt decoration and titling; 251pp. [5]. Fine externally and Very Good+ internally. Beautifully rebound, including stained pastedowns and endpapers. Tight and unmarked. An early Christie title - the second original collection of stories which includes an appearance by the husband and wife team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. A great collectible copy at an attractive price.

Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

Agatha Christie. Partners In Crime. Collins (U.K.), 1929.

Price: US$499.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - PARTNERS IN CRIME, published by UK publisher Collins, copyright 1929, First Printing (states "Copyright, 1929" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings - there was only ever 1 printing with this particular board color format), lists to "The Mystery Of The Bluer Train" to left of title page, black cloth boards with redish orange lettering & outline to spine and front board. Book has just a couple of creased page corners, no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, evidence of partial repair at top to internal hinges otherwise clean endpapers with no staining or tape residue, no foxing to pages or endpapers, slight age darkening/dust soiling/foxing to outer page edges, tiny bit of wear to "Collins" at bottom of spine otherwise no fading/wear to lettering on spine or front panel (common defect with these early Collins 1st print books), no wear to board edges, almost no wear to board corners, slight wear to bottom spine tip corner only, bit of wear-through of cloth at exterior hinges (another common defect with these early 1920s Collins books), almost none of the usual dust/handling soiling to cloth boards, no spine fading, bumped board corner. Book also comes with a color fascimile of the UK 1st issue Dust jacket to provide protection from damage and to improve its appearance on a shelf. Overall a VG book of a rare 1920s era UK Agatha Christie 1st printing of a rare 1920s U.K. Christie. 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.

Agatha Christie. Partners in Crime. W Collins Sons and Co, 1929.

Price: US$518.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Rebound in Quarter morocco and cloth. 5 raised bands to spine. morocco title label to second panel, author label to fourth, bands bordered by gilt single rules. Externally, very good +. Internally text is often lightly foxed, but generally clean.

Seller: William Collins Rare and Collectable Books, Grimsby, United Kingdom

Agatha Christie. Partners in Crime (in fine binding). Collins, 1929.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "Partners in Crime" by Agatha Christie. W. Collins, London. 1929 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition, in half tan calf binding, marbled boards, spine gilt. The book includes a collection of short mystery stories. All of the stories in the collection had previously been published in magazines (see First publication of stories below) and feature her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, first introduced in The Secret Adversary (1922).

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976). Partners in Crime. London: Collins, 1929, 1929.

Price: US$1120.76 + shipping

Description: [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252; [4], advertisements. Publisher's black cloth with titles in red to spine and upper, ruled in red. With pictorial facsimile dust-jacket, produced by Facsimile Dust Jackets LLC. Foxing to fore-edge. Cloth is fresh with no wear to spine ends. Near fine. Christie's tenth crime book and her second original collection of stories which includes an appearance by Christie's husband and wife team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. It is a rather enjoyable work for connoisseurs of the genre, as Christie writes each story in the style of another detective, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, her own Hercule Poirot, and Dr Thorndyke, amongst others. Wagstaff and Poole, pp.56-57.

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

CHRISTIE (Agatha). Partners in Crime. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1929.

Price: US$1280.86 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition. 8vo. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full tan morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border, the spine divided into six panels by gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and fourth and dated at the foot, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, the turn-ins with gilt fillets, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.

Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom