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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: States "Fifth Impression April, 1926." (The first was October, 1922; this is NOT the first printing.) Book is "very good" with NO visible rub to corners; no problems with hinges. Jacket is complete, "very good," with a jagged closed two-inch tear to top of spine (hard to spot under the mylar) and an inch-and-a-half (3.8 cm) scratch to front panel (visible as a white line across the left shoulder of the gunman pictured there.) Smaller, "pocket" 16mo reprints of this title from the World-War-Two era or later are fairly common; nice copies from the 1920s in collectible original jackets are not. List of "over 80 . . . Collins 2/6 novels" printed in blue ink to verso of jacket. Author Crofts (1879-1957) was an Irish railway engineer who wrote detective fiction in his spare time until his move to England in 1929, from which point he wrote full time. To his plots he brought a mind trained in mathematics, specializing in rail and ferry timetables and the seemingly unbreakable alibi. Raymond Chandler praised Crofts' plotting, calling him "the soundest builder of them all when he doesn't get too fancy." Agatha Christie included parodies of Inspector French alongside Sherlock Holmes and her own Hercule Poirot in her "Partners in Crime" (1929) Totals 304 pp. followed by 8 pp. publisher's ads. Here reduced from $945.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [First Edition]. W. Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd., 1926.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1926. First Edition. 312 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Page 301-308 are detached. Pencil notes to rear pastedown. Hinges and guttering are cracked. Binding is loose. Small edge tear to one page not affecting the text. Many dog-eared corners. Small brown stain to pp180-181. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and frayed with visible board. Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Heavy splits to spine joints. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable black ink and water marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1926.
Price: US$2510.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, First impression. A lovely copy finely bound by Temple book bindery in 3/4 red morocco with contrasting black lettering labels to spine with title and author. Five raised bands to spine with gilt tooling. Marbled end papers and gilt page edges. Internally very good +.
Seller: William Collins Rare and Collectable Books, Grimsby, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1926.
Price: US$4188.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The scarce first edition of one of Agatha Christie's most celebrated novels, a work which marked a turning point in her early career. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.This landmark of detective fiction was Christie's third novel to feature Hercule Poirot, and was her first best seller.The innovative ending significantly impacted the genre of detective fiction, and resulted in this work frequently being identified as the best crime novel of all time.With a small ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, with light offsetting of the ink to the front pastedown.One of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, it was Christie's first work to be released by her longstanding publisher, William Collins. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with small splits in the cloth towards the head and tail of rear joint. Light marks to rear board. Ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, with light offsetting of the ink to the front pastedown. light ink mark to fore edge of text block. Tail of rear free endpaper removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, and generally clean, with instances of light spotting to the first and last few few leaves, and only the odd further instance of spotting. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. W. Collins, Sons & Co, UK, 1926.
Price: US$5123.46 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie First Edition W. Collins Sons & Co. 1926. No name inscriptions, completely free of any foxing and clean throughout. A near fine book. Covers are bright with only a touch of toning to spine. Note on rear endpaper reads "The Silk Stocking Murders / by Anthony Berkeley. (1928) / is dedicated "to A.B. Cox who very kindly wrote / this book for me in his spare time". !! ". This title is from a collection of books that included several of Anthony Berkeley's personal copies. The writer of the inscription is unknown. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom