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Price: US$3499.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, published by UK publisher Bodley Head/John Lane, copyright 1924, First Printing (states "First Published in 1924" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings), lists to "Poirot Investigates" on list of Christie books to left of title page (i.e. doesn't list the 6th and last Bodley Head Agatha Christie book "The Secret of Chimneys" published in 1925), double sided page of recent Bodley Head books at rear of book, white endpapers, light tan cloth boards with dark brown lettering & art deco boarder design to spine & front board. Book has no crease page corner, no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, clean original endpapers with no markings or tape residue, no foxing to pages, endpapers, or outer page edges, very slight dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges (no foxing), no tears/repairs to internal hinges, tight flat pages, NO SPINE DARKENING, NO CLOTH WEAR-THROUGH TO BOARD EDGES, tiny wear spot to bottom right board corner otherwise no wear to board corners, NO WEAR TO SPINE TIPS, NO WEAR/TEARS TO EXTERIOR HINGES, NO DUST/HANDLING DISCOLORATION TO BOARDS (book looks like the original dust jacket was only recently removed). Book also comes with a color facsimile of the UK Bodley Head 1st issue Dust jacket to provide protection from damage and to improve its appearance on a shelf. Overall a N-FINE book of a very rare 1920s era UK Bodley Head/John Lane Agatha Christie U.K. first printing of her 5th book. 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$4168.98 + shipping
Description: [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 310; [2], advertisements. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled and decorated in dark brown. Contents clean. Spine tips and corners with trivial wear, a scuff on the front panel, else a very good copy. The fourth of Christie's sixty-six original crime novels, and the first to feature the secret service agent Johnny Race.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom