Christie, Agatha. Towards Zero. Blakiston /Red Badge, NY, 1944.

Price: US$7.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Chipping at spine ends, cor. wear, clean natural baords w/brown lettering. Innards are lightly shaken, text clean & tight. Usual lib. marks inside. No external lib. marks. Dodd Mead on spine. 242 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: General Eclectic Books, Gray, ME, U.S.A.

AGATHA CHRISTIE. TOWARDS ZERO A Red Badge Mystery. Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1944.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Beige boards, jacket missing; Overall grubby boards, soiled and faded, with small chip on bottom of spine and piece of top spine cover weak but still attached; Left flap of jacket pasted down on front end boards with synopsis; Inside ffep has a small scuff on top corner with overall discolouration throughout but no loose or torn pages; An early US edition distributed by Dood, Mead & Company;

Seller: Paraphernalia Books 'N' Stuff, Belleville, ON, Canada

Christie, Agatha. TOWARDS ZERO. The Blakiston Company, New York, 1944.

Price: US$34.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 242 pp. White endpapers with maps on ffep and rear paste-down endpaper. Previous owner's name on ffep. Brown cloth with brown titles. Spine and edges yellowed, corners bumped. VG/- -

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Christie, Agatha. Towards Zero. Blakiston Company, 1944.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Ex-Library; ; pages; Front hinges are starting to crack but book is still nicely intact

Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Christie, Agatha. Towards Zero. The Blakiston Company/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944.

Price: US$39.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No dust jacket. Modest sunfade to spine (though lettering is very sharp with no loss of color), slight cock to spine. otherwise book is very nice, clean and sharp, with a tight binding and clean pages.

Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Agatha Christie. Towards Zero. Dodd, Mead January 1944, 1944.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First US edition later printing of the fifth novel in the Superintendent Battle series. Says 'Copyright 1944' on the publisher's page but has The Blakiston Company on the title page. Light edge wear to the boards, some staining to covers

Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Agatha Christie. Towards Zero. The Blakiston Company, Philadephia, 1944.

Price: US$42.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First American edition. No dust jacket. The cover has chips on the spine and some darkening on both the front and back boards (see pictures), and bumped corners. A penciled price on the inside front page is the only interior mark. Pages clean and tight.

Seller: Four Daughters Books, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.

Christie, Agatha. Towards Zero. Dodd, Mead & Company / The Blakiston Company, New York, 1944.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First US edition later printing of the fifth novel in the Superintendent Battle series. Says "Copyright 1944" on the publisher's page but has The Blakiston Company on the title page. Light edge wear to the boards. The dust jacket has tape at just about every edge. Missing chunks at both tips of the spine and front panel. The way it's been tape I'm pretty sure that the dust jacket is separated in pieces in a couple of spots. In good / poor condition.

Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976). Towards Zero. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1944, 1944.

Price: US$480.75 + shipping

Description: [Murder mystery] FIRST US EDITION, usual later issue with 'Blakiston' publisher credit on t.p. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8] 242 [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with brown decoration to spine and upper, and sketch-map to endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Koerney. Discreet sticker mark to fly-leaf, otherwise crisp and clean internally, with some toning to spine and board extremities. Price-clipped jacket has light wear to the spine tips and corners, with a touch of sunning also to spine. Very good indeed. 'Towards Zero' marks the fifth and final appearance of Hercule Poirot's trusty ally Superintendent Battle, who must work hard to solve the murder of Lady Tresillian.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom