Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Agatha Christie. Poirot Loses A Client. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1937.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Binding intact, spine cover is cracking
Seller: Basin Book Trader, Klamath Falls, OR, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. Poirot Loses a Client. Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1937.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lacks dust jacket. Heavy edgewear with fraying to corners, spine head and foot, chip to spine head that extends to first letter of title. Sunfading to spine. Book is slightly cocked. First several pages pulling away from hinge but not actually starting. Glue offset stains on endpapers ; Orange boards with black titles, with celophane covering. Red Badge Detective series ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. 1937. First edition, first printing with 1937 on the title page, with matching date copyright page, with no further printings listed. No DJ. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. Orange topstain, as issued. Orange cloth with titles stamped in black. Illustrated red and cream endpapers, with Red Badge Detective insignia and lightning bolts. Plot synopsis on fly, as issued. Orange cloth shows light soiling, mostly on rear panel. Shelf-rubbing along edges and tips. Endpapers show light soiling. Light soiling, and faint foxing to page edges. White pencil on front panel near crown.Panels would clean up nicely with little effort. This mystery features Hercule Poirot and is narrated by his friend Arthur Hastings. It is the last book to feature the character of Hastings until the final Poirot novel, 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which Hastings also narrates. A solid first edition, first printing of a pre-1940 Christie first printing; released in the UK under the title Dumb Witness.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. Poirot loses a client. Dodd Mead & Company, 1937.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A fine copy in near fine wrapper that has small infil at base of rear panel, a beautiful copy
Seller: Dick Neal Fine Books, Booker Bay, NSW, Australia
Price: US$3655.87 + shipping
Description: [Murder Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 302; [2], sample pages reprinted from 'Dead Man's Mirror'. Publisher's orange cloth pictorially blocked in black, top edge orange, others untrimmed, patterned endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at $2.00. Small legal 'price guarantee' label on the front flap, with pale ghost offset to free endpaper else a very fine copy in a bright, fresh dust jacket with minor wear to spine tips and corners. An exceptional copy. The US version of the Hercule Poirot mystery 'Dumb Witness', first published in 1937, centring on the mysterious and sudden death of a wealthy spinster.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom