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Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE UNDER DOG & E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM - BLACKMAN'S WOOD published together in TWO (2) NEW CRIME STORIES, published by UK publisher Reader's Library (#287), copyright 1929, fragile maroon boards with gold gilt lettering to spine & front panel with 1920s art deco edging, First Printing (book was later reissued in 1936 by Daily Express under the title "Two Thrillers"), this cheaply made (and fragile) hardcover was published without blank free endpapers. THIS WAS THE FIRST AGATHA CHRISTIE UK BOOK NOT PUBLISHED BY COLLINS SINCE SHE CHANGED PUBLISHER'S IN 1926. Book has no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside (original bookseller's faded stamp to title page - we know this is the original bookseller's stamp as the stamp is dated 1928 but this book wasn't published until 1929), clean endpapers - no staining or tape residue (some age darkening), no foxing to endpapers or pages or outer page edges, age darkening/dust soiling to outer page edges, tight flat pages with no creased page corners, no wear to board edges or board corners, slight wear to spine tips (common defect with these very fragile boards - this book was also published with basically a "floating spine" making it even more fragile), almost no wear to left/right spine hinges, spine lettering is still present and not worn or oxidized, no dust soiling or staining to boards. Dust jacket has small chipping at top of spine/top left on front panel and largish 'v' losses to bottom spine tip corners, small closed tear with related creasing along top edge on front panel otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, hint of wear to front flap crease (nick losses at flap crease corners(, almost no edge wear, no spine fading/darkening, almost no color rubbing to left/right on spine, almost no dust rubbing to panels, no soiling or staining, front & rear panel artwork is quite nice. Overall a VG+/FINE- book in VG/VG+ original dust jacket of a rare 1920s era UK Agatha Christie 1st printing IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. 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$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burgundy cloth with gilt stamping, spine a bit dulled and slanted. Small tear to head of gutter paper. Vernon L. Soper illustrated dustjacket toned with chipping at spine ends and 1" chip top of rear panel. Closed slit to jacket runs about halfway down spine. First edition with second state dustjacket showing titles on front flap. ; MCF04605; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 188 pp
Seller: McCormick Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$833.74 + shipping
Description: [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp188; [2], advertisements. Publisher's burgundy cloth gilt-stamped to upper and spine. With the illustrated dust-wrapper by Vernon L Soper. Contents toned as expected, slight lean, gilt to spine dulled, bright dust jacket has light wear to the spine tips and corners. A most attractive copy of a fragile and cheaply produced book. Includes a Hercule Poirot story. 'Surely one of the best-loved and most widely read detective fiction writers of all time. Her tales are diverse and subtly contrived and in Miss Jean Marple, her gentle little spinster sleuth, and M. Hercule Poirot, the precise and dignified Belgian detective, she has created two of the greatest characters ever to grace the genre'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1362.66 + shipping
Description: London, The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1929. Kl.-8°. OLeinen mit reicher Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung. Farbig illustr. OUmschlag. Original publishers jacket in publishers cloth. First edition. - Christie's story is "The Under Dog". Oppenheim's story is "The Prince of Storytellers". The probable first-state dustwrapper with some tiny tears. Fine copy in fine d/j. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Price: US$1603.34 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An uncommon to see and superior copy of this collection of two crime stories by two inimitable authors, Agatha Christie and E. Phillips Oppenheim, being the first time either of these stories were ever published. The first edition, being the first time either of these stories were published.In the original unclipped second state dust wrapper, illustrated by Vernon L. Soper, with titles to the fly leaves.An uncommon and unique volume published by the Readers Library, containing two crime stories in a neat pocket-sized volume.This includes 'The Under Dog' by Agatha Christie, a Hercule Poirot tale, and 'Blackman's Wood' by E. Phillips Oppenheim.Christie's 'The Under Dog' was later reprinted in 'The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding'. Oppenheim's story was later published in a variety of thriller collections.The Readers Library published well known novels and authors in a cheaper format for the wider public. Other works they published in this series include 'Hard Times', 'Allan Quatermain', 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea', 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', and 'The Constant Nymph'.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Very light bumping and fading to the head and tail of the spine. A few small spots to the fore edge. Very light edge wear to the dust wrapper, with some small repaired tear to the tail of the front wrap. Light marks, mostly to the front wrap, with a few scattered spots to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned, as is usual with this work, and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom