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Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, New York, 1930.
Price: US$7.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Date unknown. Corners and edges are worn, binding is a bit loose and pages are age-toned. Pictures available upon request.
Seller: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1930.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Faded pink cloth. Pictorial endpages. 8vo. 290 pages. Ex-library with several ink stamps. Well worn spine ends with several small holes in cloth along spine. Cover worn at corners and edges. Two well preserved pieces of the jacket attached to front pastedown. Fair condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1930.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Description: Nice copy in its scond printing. Copyright page states Dodd Mead and Company, Inc. / Published April, 1930 / Second Printing April, 1930. Red textured boards with black lettering to spine and top board, both fresh and bright. Unmarked but for neat signature of former owner on front endpaper and nine names underlined in the text. Topstain either black or gray. Text supple with only slight tanning. I do not remember ever seeing a copyright page like this on a Grosset & Dunlap. This book is scarce in any printing and there are no G& D listings on Bookfinder. One of her early books and seemingly a second printing. Condition is surprisngly well preserved. Collection of short stories. 290 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Secret Adversary. Dodd, Mead and Company 1930 (c.1922), New York, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (in a REPRODUCTION dust jacket) [very lightly shelfwear, spine slightly turned, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of title page]. Christie's second novel, which introduced the characters of Tommy Beresford and Tuppence (Miss Prudence Cowley) -- not yet "the Beresfords," as when the book opens they are merely childhood pals getting reacquainted, whose "united ages certainly would not have totaled forty-five." A few years later they might have qualified as Bright Young Things (in the pejorative sense), but this being the early 1920s (and with Agatha Christie as their creator rather than, say, Evelyn Waugh). they are not just young and adventurous but also practical-minded. They decide to go into business, of sorts, as The Young Adventurers, Ltd., advertising themselves as "willing to do anything, go anywhere," as long as its pays well -- and before you can say "old bean," they find themselves on the trail of a young woman who'd survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and is in possession of some mysterious papers that had been handed to her by a man as she was leaving the doomed ship in a lifeboat. Following this novel, Christie featured the couple in a number of short stories, which were collected in her 1929 book "Partners in Crime" (by which time they had married). Christie clearly had a fondness for the characters -- which are said to have been based on her own marriage -- and returned to them intermittently in later years, with novels published in 1941, 1968, and 1973. Over the years, Tommy and Tuppence have been featured in radio, film and television adaptations; the most recent of the latter, a 2015 BBC production, generated renewed attention to the stories, with one article even going so far as to declare Tommy and Tuppence "Agatha Christie's greatest creation." PLEASE NOTE that the dust jacket on this book is a REPRODUCTION of the original; the jacket is designated "New Edition," although this descriptor does not appear on the book itself.
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
CHRISTIE, AGATHA. THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN. DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, NEW YORK NY, 1930.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL TAN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH BROWN TITLES TO THE SPINE AND UPPER COVER. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITH SPINE PANEL SLIGHTLY SUNNED. NEW FACSIMILI D.J.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha.. The Mysterious Mr. Quin.. NY. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1930., 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Splendid short stories introducing the mysterious Mr. Quin. VG-/G+ in pinkish cloth stamped in black, spine faded and lightly soiled at the top. In a worn, soiled and chipped dustjacket printed on heavy yellow stock in red and green, missing a 1 1/2 " piece across the top of the spine. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$899.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN, published by Dodd Mead, copyright 1930, First Printing (no references to subsequent printings on copyright page - there was never a 2nd Dodd Mead printing), lists to itself on list of Christie books left of title page, illustrated endpapers (reproduces the DJ cover art), peach cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front panel, $2.00 price on DJ front flap, yellow paper stock dust jacket (this is the ONLY Dodd Mead Agatha Christie dust jacket that was printed on paper stock anything other than white). Book has no creased page corners, former owner's tiny name to inside front board (covered by DJ front flap) otherwise no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, hint of dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges, clean endpapers with no soiling or staining, no splitting to internal hinges (common defect with these early Dodd Mead books), no spine lean, no wear to board edges or board corners, barest hint of shelf wear to bottom spine tip, very slight spine sun fading (common defect with this book - even with the original dust jacket), no rubbing to spine lettering, no handling/dust soiling to boards, no soiling or discoloration to boards, no bumped board corners. Dust jacket has sliver loss at top spine tip otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, wear to spine tips with largish "v" losses to bottom spine tip, almost no wear to front flap crease (tiny nick losses at flap crease corners), hint of edge wear, very slight spine sun darkening, almost no wear to left/right on spine, no color rubbing to front panel, slight dust rubbing to light colored rear panel and spine, no soiling or staining. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in VG+ condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a very rare early 1930s era 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.
Price: US$2373.11 + shipping
Description: [Mystery novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 290 [2]. Publisher's pink cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $2.00. Trivial rubbing to the top of the spine, which is mildly toned. Jacket is chipped at the top of the spine, with dulled lettering and a soft vertical crease to each panel. Very good. The story of Mr. Harley Quin, who sparks new life into a quiet New Year's Eve party by unmasking a murderer. The character was author Christie's own favourite creation; Harley Quin is an enigma, who appears and disappears unexpectedlyâ"and usually by strange tricks of the light caused by stained-glass windows or flickering firelight. His background, family and friends are all a mystery, although his almost supernatural powers of detection are, however, very real.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom