Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Christie, Agatha. THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$34.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 306 pages. Third U.S. edition. Blue cloth hardcovers with orange titles on cover and spine. Lightly sunned spine. Rubbed edges. In a clear plastic wrap. Tops dyed red/orange. Age-toned but clean interior. VG/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Agatha Christie. THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN. Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 8 in. Blue cloth boards with red titles. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners and spine ends bumped with light wear, covers have some pale spotting. Front inner hinge started but muslin is undamaged. Text brght and clean, edges toned. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. The Murder on the Links. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1928.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Description: An early US edition of Agatha Christie's third novel, her second featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. A scarce 1920s Grosset and Dunlap edition of this classic Christie title.Dated circa 1928 via the list of titles advertised to the rear. 'Murder on the Links' was first published in the US in 1923 by Dodd, Mead and Company, who for this later reprint partnered with Grosset & Dunlap. The two publishing houses regularly collaborated in order to outsource publishing of later editions, while extending the income life of a title. Grosset & Dunlap's partnership with Dodd began in the 1920s, and continued into the early 1940s.In this classic mystery, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back on a French golf course, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté.With a twelve page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, bright. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with a touch of fraying to head of front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Mystery of The Blue Train. Dodd, Mead And Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first impression. Boards are marked and stained, corners are bumped and spine shows wear. Internally no inscriptions, very clean throughout ; has very mild age toning. Overall a very good- copy.
Seller: William Collins Rare and Collectable Books, Grimsby, United Kingdom
Agatha Christie. The Mystery of the Blue Train. Dodd, Mead, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train. Dodd, Mead (1928). First American Edition, first printing, hardback. No dust jacket. Tight, sound copy in Very Good condition. Orange ink lettering on front cover, title lettering and spine lettering are bright and unrubbed. Blue boards are crisp and clean. A nice sharp copy. Not many of these on the market
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Mystery of the Blue Train. Dodd, Mead and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth Printing in Grosset and Dunlap dustjacket. 'A string of fabulous rubies, a midnight shot on a Paris boulevard, an unscrupulous Count luring an American girl to a secret rendezvous'. Near Fine bright copy in Near Fine or Fine Grosset and Dunlap dustjacket that had been stored separate from the book all these many years.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Mystery of the Blue Train. Dodd, Mead, & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Attractively bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped brightly in orange on the front boards and on the spine. With a blind-stamped image of the blue train in the center of the front boards. With a few light stains on the rear boards. Touch of light flecking to the edges of the front and rear boards. Very clean and tight throughout. Printed on heavy white stock which is clean and bright. Type is crisp and in fine register. In the original dust jacket with the price of $2.00 at the top of the inside front flap. With a 2" closed tear at the bottom of the spine fold and a 1" closed tear at the top of the same spine fold. With general wear and a touch of fading to the jacket, but virtually complete and rather scarce. A handsome, collectible copy in the rare dust jacket. The novel's plot is based on the 1923 Poirot short story "The Plymouth Express" (later collected in book form in the US in 1951 in The Under Dog and Other Stories and in the UK in 1974 in Poirot's Early Cases). This novel features (as the home of the heroine, Katherine Grey) the first mention in a novel of the fictional village of St Mary Mead, which had originally appeared in "The Tuesday Night Club" published in December 1927, which was the first short story to feature Christie's other famous detective Miss Marple. It also features the first appearance of the minor recurring character, Mr Goby, who would later appear in After the Funeral and Third Girl. The book also features the first appearance of Poirot's valet, Georges. Mere months after this novel was published, prolific French novelist Arthur Bernède published Le mystère du train bleu[7] in late 1928. A murder mystery adventure featuring Bernède's own popular detective, Chantecoq, the story is set in Paris and the plot is completely different. It seems likely, however, that Bernède was hoping to benefit from Poirot's popularity. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1928 on the title and copyright pages with no subsequent printing listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.