Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Agatha Christie. Taken at the Flood. Collins Crime Club, 1948.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardback, lacks dustwrapper, boards are mottled especially to front, slight fading to spine. Gift inscription to free front end paper, no other inscriptions. Hinges tight. Some significant marking to edge of text block. This is definately a reading copy only. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Taken at the Flood. Collins Crime Club, London, 1948.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO JACKET. Hardback 19x13cm. 192 pages. No edition stated. "1948" printed on the reverse of the title page. SPINE IS FADED but is intact and has bold black lettering. Very clean boards. Book leans slightly. Clean & very tight. No inscriptions. TOP EDGE OF THE PAGE BLOCK IS FOXED. A LITTLE FOXING ELSEWHERE. No dust jacket. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H25
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Christie, Agatha. Taken at the Flood (Crime Club series). Collins Crime Club, 1948.
Price: US$32.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vg hardcover book red boards no dw 1st edition Collins Crime Club 1948 , 1st print In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
Seller: Allyouneedisbooks Ltd, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Christie, Agatha. Taken At The Flood. The Crime Club (Collins), 1948.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Name of the previous owner. Publication of 192 pages. Facsimile Jacket. The dust jacket is in good condition. The boards are in good condition. There are minor marks on page 177, the remainder of the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Christie, Agatha. Taken at the Flood. Collins / Crime Club, 1948.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: The boards are marked sunned and worn. Two rubber stamps. Foxing. The binding is sound. Poor. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Agatha Christie. Taken At The Flood. Collins For The Crime Club, 1948.
Price: US$60.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition Ex Library copy complete with jacket in a clear protector. Usual Stamps and stickers apply. Knocks and marks commensurate with library copies. Unable to date due to missing prelims. Contents thumbed but overall clear.
Seller: WeBuyBooks 2, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
AGATHA CHRISTIE.. TAKEN AT THE FLOOD.. Collins Crime Club., LONDON., 1948.
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in a facsimile dust wrapper. 192 pages with no inscriptions, tears or loss. Scattered foxing throughout. Dated 1948 first UK edition. Outer red boards are unmarked with a slightly faded spine. The dust wrapper vis a facsimile of the true first edition and completes the book nicely.
Seller: Baggins Books and Collectables, Bushey Heath, HERTS, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Taken At The Flood - UK Collins 1st 1948. Collins (U.K.), 1948.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, published by Collins, copyright 1948, FIRST PRINTING (says "Copyright -- Printed in Great Britain -- 1948" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings, lists to "The Labours Of Hercules" on list of Christie books to left of title page, redish orange boards with black lettering on spine. Book has no creased page corners, no former ownership markings or used book store marks/stamps/stickers inside, clean endpapers - no tape staining or markings, no foxing to pages or endpapers, just a hint of dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges (no foxing), no spine lean, tight white pages with square page corners, no wear to board edges or corners or spine tips, usual spine sun fading, no handling/dust discoloration to boards/spine, no soiling or stains, no wear to spine lettering, 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+/FINE- book of a scarce 1940 UK 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. Taken at the Flood. London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1948.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp192. Bound in orange coloured hard boards, black lettering to the spine, and in the original unclipped dust jacket (8s 6d net). Very Good Minus condition book, which has some fading to the cloth on the spine and spotting to the edges, clean and unmarked inside. In a Good Minus to Fair jacket which is missing the bottom 1/3 of the spine and has general wear.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. Taken At The Flood. Collins Crime Club, London and Glasgow, 1948.
Price: US$246.39 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition London and Glasgow 1948. 192 pp. Book very good+, Dustwrapper very good-. Not price clipped. Original price of 8 shillings and six pence. Book has a light wear at the spine and toning on the top edges. It has very slight dust soiling to the top edge of the textblock. Otherwise clean and in excellent condition. Dustwrapper has a lite wear and creasing along top and bottom edge. DW has losses at top and bottom spine tips and bit of loss at top front corner. No darkning to spine. See photos.
Seller: Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat, PBFA, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Agatha Christie. Taken At The Flood - w/Original Dust Jacket. Collins (U.K.), 1948.
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, published by Collins, copyright 1948, FIRST PRINTING (says "Copyright -- Printed in Great Britain -- 1948" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings, lists to "The Labours Of Hercules" on list of Christie books to left of title page, redish orange boards with black lettering on spine, DJ art continues to spine (later state DJs don't have the DJ front cover art continue on the spine), DJ rear flap has generic Christie reviews. Book has no creased page corners, no former ownership markings or used book store marks/stamps/stickers inside, clean endpapers - no tape staining or markings, no foxing to pages or endpapers, slight dust soiling/age darkening/foxing to outer page edges, no spine lean, tight white pages with square page corners, no wear to board edges or corners or spine tips, very tiny spine sun fading corresponding with DJ chipping otherwise no spine sun fading, no handling/dust discoloration to boards/spine, some fading to right/left board edges, no soiling or stains, no wear to spine lettering, no bumped board corners of note. Dust Jacket has small chipping at spine tips (surprisingly no lettering affected - very very common defect with this very fragile DJ), and small chip at top left on front panel, largish nick loss at bottom of rear flap crease, small closed tear with related creasing at top right on front & rear panels, hint of wear to front flap crease (nick losses at flap crease corners), slight edge wear, hint of dust soiling to white rear panel (common with this light colored DJ), NO SPINE SUN FADING (another common defect with this DJ), no color rubbing to front panel which presents very nicely, no staining or soiling to panels or spine. Overall a VG+/FINE- book in VG-/VG condition dust jacket (price clipped) of a scarce 1940 UK Agatha Christie 1st printing with original DJ. 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. Taken at the Flood. Published for the Crime Club by Collins, London, 1948.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 192pp. 8vo. Front panel states: "A full-length Poirot Novel" Red cloth stamped in black,A fine copy in very good, bright unclipped dust jacket; pictorial jacket has three small chips and short tear at base of spine and lower edge of both panels (slightly affecting one letter in publisher's printed name), crown of spine has slight wear and small creased tear, and dust jacket has been machine-folded slightly off-center (by publisher, causing alignment of spine printing to extend onto rear panel), else quite fresh and bright
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. Taken at the Flood. The Crime Club, Collins, London UK, 1948.
Price: US$373.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of the Hercule Poirot mystery, Taken at the Flood, with clipped dust jacket. Original red cloth boards with spots of fading on the spine. Clean contents with foxing on the page ends. Loss to the ends of spine affecting the text. Edgewear to the jacket.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
CHRISTIE, AGATHA.. Taken At The Flood. London: Collins, 1948, 1948.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A little cloth fading, very good or better in a very good dust jacket with numerous small chips and tears. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, 'Stephen from Agatha/ Nov. 1948.' Stephen was Stephen Glanville, dedicatee of Five Little Pigs. A number of years ago we sold several books presented to Glanville by Christie. A Poirot novel. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.