Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fifth printing. Tanning, rubbing to boards. General age/reading wear. Pages clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1926.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 306 pages. Sixth printing. Early printing of the American edition. Grey cloth with black and orange titles on cover and spine. Bumped corners, rubbed edges. Missing ffep, otherwise bright and clean interior. Tops dyed red. G/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
CHRISTIE, AGATHA. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1926.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Olive-khaki cloth lettered and decorated in black and orange. Top stain red. #rd printing of the US first in same year. Wear and fading to spine and extremities and some spotting to front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
CHRISTIE, AGATHA. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1926.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light olive or dark Khaki cloth decorated in black and orange. Top stain red. lacking rare dust jacket. This is Christie's most famous mystery (the narrator did it). A very sharp and clean copy with small stamped name to endpaper and just a mild amount of wear and staining.Small bookstore label on rear endpaper. Superior copy of the US edition published the same year as the UK first.
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1926.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, gray cloth printed in black & red (spine rubbed & sunned). New York: Dodd Mead, 1926. First American Edition. Very good(-) copy in a fine facsimile dust wrapper. Voted the best crime novel ever by the British Crime Writers Association, this is very scarce book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926.
Price: US$5900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine, beautiful book in vibrant dust jacket, with some folds at top and bottom, as well as a small tear across the top of the spine. First American edition and extremely rare, especially in this condition, with even rarer dust jacket. Copies such as these come across once in many years! Publishers price of $2.00 is present on inner flap. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the third book to feature Detective Hercule Poirot, and features an innovative plot twist at the end. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, this book is one of Christie's most well-known and controversial novels and voted the best crime novel ever by the British Crime Writers' Association in 2013.
Seller: Antiquarian Archives, Lakewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); jade green cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; light green topstain; dustjacket; [8],9-296pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing some trivial wear to extremities, a few tiny nicks and tears, and a small, faint splash mark at mid-spine; bright, unrestored, and very Near Fine. Housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell case. Christie's first book, narrated by a Captain Hastings, home from the Western Front, who is convalescing at Styles Court, the stately home of a friend in Essex. Styles is ruled by the septuagenarian matriarch of the family, who dies suddenly in a fit of convulsions, determined to be strychnine poisoning. The family calls on Scotland Yard, who arrests the matriarch's much younger new husband. Meanwhile, Hastings encounters his old friend Hercule Poirot, late of the Belgian police, in a nearby settlement for Belgian refugees, who goes on to carry out a parallel investigation to Scotland Yard. "Christie gives the reader a great deal of help in the form of plans of the layout of the first floor of the house and of the victim's bedroom together with examples of handwriting, letters, mysterious messages and so on, in addition to the carefully developed plot, but as like as not, most readers will not know the solution until the neat little foreign detective, with his egg-shaped head, waxed moustaches and quaint command of the English language, solves the murder to the amazement and discomfiture of the police and everyone else" (Wagstaff & Poole, pp.17-18). The true first edition of The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in New York by the John Lane Company in 1920. This was followed by what is generally accepted as the Second US edition, authorized by John Lane and published by the National Book Company (ca.1922-23). Beginning with Christie's second book, The Secret Adversary, Dodd, Mead & Co. became her American publisher through the end of her career. By 1926, they had secured the copyright and reprint rights for her debut, and thus The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in a uniform style with her early 1920s novels (The Secret Adversary through The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). They retained the same jacket artwork for this edition that appeared on the 1920 US and 1921 UK editions. The first US and UK editions of this title are essentially unobtainable in dustjacket; neither appear in the auction record, and the consensus among colleagues I've queried is: "It's a ghost." This one's beautiful, and if you want a "First" in dustjacket, it's your best (and maybe only) option. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Barzun & Taylor 780.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.