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Christie, Agatha. The Moving Finger [In Facsimile Dust Jacket]. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1942.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Red cloth with spine titles and illustration of hand in black. Dodd Mead lettered on bottom of spine and cover has the Red Badge Detective illustration. 229 pages. Previous owner's small neat signature with date of 1945 on inside top corner of front endpaper. Paste down store stamp of "6612 Lending Library & Cardshop" in Sheridan, Illinois. Text is bright and clean, some smudges to few pages in the margins. Binding tight. Cover has some small stains, the spine has some darkening land shows some wear. In a facsimile dust jacket which is basically a color xerox copy of an original.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. The Moving Finger. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1942.
Price: US$438.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth hard cover with shield on front (Red Badge Detective) and some mild wear to corners and spine ends, and split rear spine hinge which has been repaired. No dust jacket. Quite clean interior with 229 pages, and no inscriptions. Published in 1942 by Dodd Mead this American 1st edition preceded the UK edition, and is in good to very good condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Moving Finger. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1942.
Price: US$506.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The scarce first US edition of Agatha Christie's thrilling murder mystery, with publication preceding the UK edition by eleven months. The first US edition of this work, published in July 1942. The first UK edition was not published until June 1943.The true first edition in book form, as the novel was initially serialised in the US in 'Collier's Weekly', from March to May 1942.Featuring Miss Marple in a small role, this detective novel begins with the Burton siblings arriving in Lymstock, Devon, and receiving a letter which accuses their relationship as being that of lovers rather than brother and sister. Soon, a prominent local is found dead with a similar letter alongside them, and a the mystery unfolds.Featuring Miss Marple in a minor role.With ink inscriptions to the front and rear pastedowns, and front free endpaper.An uncommon first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with boards bright. Minor handling marks to boards. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Ink inscriptions to front and rear pastedowns and front free endpaper. Internally, pages generally firmly bound, with the odd spot to page perimeters. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Moving Finger. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1942.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An exceptionally scarce first U.S. edition of Agatha Christie's exciting piece of crime fiction featuring Miss Marple. This was the first edition in book form, since the true first was serialised in Collier's Weekly. This edition predates the first Crime Club edition.This detective novel begins with the Burton siblings arriving in Lymstock, Devon, and receiving a letter which accuses their relationship as being that of lovers rather than brother and sister. Soon, a prominent local is found dead with a similar letter alongside them, and the mystery unfolds.Featuring Miss Marple in a minor role.One of the most renowned crime writers of all time, Agatha Christie was the author of some sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections. The majority of her works followed the well-loved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot or spinster sleuth Miss Marple.The first U.S. edition, preceding the first U.K. edition, which appeared the following year published by Collins Crime Club. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; spine is a touch faded as to be expected. Bumped to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, with some wear to the rear joint. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Christie, Agatha. The Moving Finger. Dodd Mead, 1942.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. True first edition, preceding the British. Red cloth with black lettering, in original unclipped dust jacket. The book is in very good condition, with minor fraying to spine ends and edges; other edge wear; pages lightly toned. The dust jacket is nearly very good, with minor chipping, particularly to spine head and top edge. A nice example of the true first edition of this early Miss Marple title.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Moving Finger. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1942.
Price: US$997.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Agatha Christie at her finest in this true 1st Edition, the American unusually preceding the British 1st Edition by nearly a year. Maurice Willson Disher in The Times Literary Supplement of 19 June 1943 was mostly positive, starting, "Beyond all doubt the puzzle in The Moving Finger is fit for experts" and continued "The author is generous with her clues. Anyone ought to be able to read her secret with half an eye - if the other one-and-a-half did not get in the way. There has rarely been a detective story so likely to create an epidemic of self indulgent kicks." Red cloth with detective shield in black to front board. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Endpapers very lightly foxed, as are text block edges. Dust jacket with mild rubbing and edge wear. Presents handsomely in archival mylar. A beautiful 1st Edition of one of Christie's better mysteries.
Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Moving Finger.. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1942.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of Christie's classic murder mystery, which preceded the first English edition by 11 months. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with professional restoration. "Beyond all doubt the puzzle in The Moving Finger is fit for experts. The author is generous with her clues. Anyone ought to be able to read her secret with half an eye â" if the other one-and-a-half did not get in the way. There has rarely been a detective story so likely to create an epidemic of self indulgent kicks" (The Times Literary Supplement). "The Moving Finger has for a jacket design a picture of a finger pointing out one suspect after another and that's the way it is with the reader as chapter after chapter of the mystery story unfolds" (Toronto Daily Star).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Moving Finger. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1942.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Advance copy of the first American edition, perfect bound in dust jacket with flaps. Very Good with lean and light creases to spine, indentations to front wrap, binding a little over-opened at front cover with a short split at the tail. The American edition precedes the British.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.