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Blue Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Good. Folding Maps (illustrator). First UK Edition. Vii, (I), 318 Pp. Blue Cloth. 1897 Date On Title Page. Dark Blue Endpapers. Bookplate Of E A Belcher, Major And Civil Servant, "En Dieu Est Tout". Color Even, Gilt Brilliant, But Bumping To Edges, And Waviness To Cloth And Endpapers (Water Damage). Christie's Dedication In Her 1924 Novel "The Mystery Of The Mill House" Reads "To E.A.B. In Memory Of A Journey, Some Lion Stories And A Request That I Should Some Day Write The Mystery Of The Mill House". As Noted In Wikipedia,"The Book Has Some Parallels To Incidents And Settings Of A Round-The-World Work Trip Taken By Christie With Her First Husband Archie Christie And Headed By His Old Teacher From Clifton College, Major E. A. Belcher, To Promote The Forthcoming 1924 British Empire Exhibition. The Tour Lasted From January 20 To December 1, 1922 (It Was On The Tour That Christie Wrote The Short Stories Which Would Form All Of Poirot Investigates (1924) And Most Of The Contents Of Poirot's Early Cases (Published In 1974). Dining With Belcher Before The Trip, He Had Suggested Setting A Mystery Novel In His Home, The Mill House At Dorney, Naming The Book The Mystery Of The Mill House And Insisted On Being In It As Well. He Is The Inspiration For The Central Character Sir Eustace Pedler, Having Been Given A Title At Archie's Suggestion, And The Mill House Also Makes An Appearance, Albeit Transposed To Marlow. Christie Found Belcher "Childish, Mean And Somehow Addictive As A Personality: ?Never, To This Day, Have I Been Able To Rid Myself Of A Sneaking Fondness For Sir Eustace,? Wrote Agatha Of The Fictionalised Belcher, Whom She Put Into The Man In The Brown Suit. ?I Dare Say It's Reprehensible, But There It Is.?" Following Completion In Late 1923. The Man In The Brown Suit Was First Serialised In The London Evening News Under The Title Anne The Adventurous. It Ran In Fifty Instalments From Thursday, November 29, 1923 To Monday, January 28, 1924. There Were Slight Amendments To The Text, Either To Make Sense Of The Openings Of An Instalment (E.G. Changing "She Then." To "Anne Then."), Or Omitting Small Sentences Or Words. The Main Change Was In The Chapter Division. The Published Book Has Thirty-Six Chapters Whereas The Serialisation Has Only Twenty-Eight. In Her 1977 Autobiography Christie Makes A Slight Mistake With The Name Of The Serialisation And Refers To It As Anna The Adventuress (Possibly Confusing It With The 1904 Book Of The Same Name By E. Phillips Oppenheim). Irrespective Of This Mistake, The Change From Her Preferred Title Was Not Of Her Choosing And The Newspaper's Choice Was One That She Considered To Be "As Silly A Title As I Have Ever Heard". She Raised No Objections However As The Evening News Were Paying Her £500 (£21,141 In Current Terms) For The Serial Rights Which She And Her Family Considered An Enormous Sum.[ At Archie's Suggestion, She Used The Money To Purchase A Grey, Bottle-Nosed Morris Cowley. She Later Stated That Acquiring Her Own Car Ranked With Dining At Buckingham Palace As One Of The Two Most Exciting Incidents In Her Life.

First Canadian edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK and first to feature Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Issued from sheets of the true first edition (NY; John Lane, 1920) and preceding the London edition (Bodley Head, 1921). We record only one other copy offered for sale and are able to locate only one copy in libraries. Recased with new endpapers added, lettering touched up and cloth coated. Spine a little tanned otherwise near fine. Housed in matching clamshell case lined in silk. Rare. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF POIROT.

First Edition. THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, John Lane, New York, 1920, first edition, several leaves with some smallish light brown stains, else a fine copy rebound in full tan calf with very nice text block and with gold gilt stamping to the spine and front cover matching the original binding design. The authors first novel and quite scarce in the true first edition as is here.

First Edition. First UK Edition. REVIEW OF THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES by AGATHA CHRISTIE. A softcover magazine (not issued with a dustwrapper). In the News Notes section is a positive review of "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie (the first novel of Mrs Agatha Christie) recently published by John Lane at 7/6 and illustrated with a photograph of Christie with child. The novel is described as "The most ingenious and absorbingly interesting tale of sensation and mystery we have read for a long time. Mrs Christie knows all the tricks and does them with the cunningest skill". The review goes on to mention that "she is at present engaged on a thriller (The Secret Adversary) of the most pronounced type dealing with the adventures of a boy and girl who are seeking a job and find themselves involved in mysterious and exciting happenings; and she has finished a series of detective stories containing some of the cases solved by Hercule Poirot, the quaint little Belgium detective who figures so prominently in the Styles Affair". The magazine includes, inter alia, further articles on 'Sir Edward Elgar' by George Sampson, 'Posthumous Poems of John Payne' by S M Ellis and 'The Future of the Theatre' by St. John Ervine. The magazine has various sections: NEWS NOTES (including an excellent review of 'She and Allan' by Sir H Rider Haggard), THE BOOKMAN GALLERY, THE READER, NEW BOOKS, NOVEL NOTES, THE BOOKMAN S TABLE, MUSIC, THE DRAMA & ADVERTISEMENTS. A great and important magazine with likely interest to all Christie collectors. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE SECRET ADVERSARY, published by Dodd Mead (this was the first Dodd Mead published Agatha Christie book who would remain her U.S publisher until her death in 1976), copyright 1922, First Printing ("Copyright 1922" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings and 1922 date on title page (there is a rare 2nd printing that has a 1930 date on title page), white endpapers, dark orangish brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board. Book has a few crease page corners, former owner's bookplate to ffe (dated Oct. 3, 1922) otherwise no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside (original bookseller's tiny label at top gutter to inside rear board), clean endpapers with no markings or tape residue, no foxing to pages, endpapers, or outer page edges, slight dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges (no foxing), repaired tear to internal hinge, tight flat pages, very slight spine sun darkening, no cloth wear-through to board edges, barest hint of wear to board corners, hint of wear to spine tips, no tears to exterior hinges, almost no dust/handling discoloration to boards, ever so faint (partial) ring mark otherwise no soiling stains/discoloration to boards, no bumped board corners. Book also comes with a color facsimile of the Dodd Mead Dust jacket to provide protection from damage and to improve its appearance on a shelf. Overall a VG book of a very rare 1920s era Agatha Christie first printing of her 2nd book. I have a number of other U.K. and U.S. Agatha Christie 1st printing hardcover books up for sale.

Hardcover. 1st edition US. 1st ptg., 8vo full orange cloth, Christie's second novel, introducing Tommy and Tuppence as an enterprising pair of investigators. Faintly cocked, spine a bit darkened, near fine without previous owner's marks or dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The book has been rebound in green cloth with the original cloth from front and rear boards retained on the new binding. New endpapers. Slight browning to the edge of pages and occasional marks and blemishes throughout. First edition with roman numerals to title page.

First edition, first impression, of the author's second book, the first of five books featuring husband and wife detectives Tommy and Tuppence, this copy in an uncommon special binding issued simultaneously with the trade edition. Wagstaff & Poole, pp. 22-3. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black, "Ex Libris" vignette to front cover in black. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, pencil annotations to rear free endpaper. Spine toned, extremities bumped, slight wear to one corner, top edge a little soiled, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE SECRET ADVERSARY, published by UK publisher Bodley Head/John Lane, copyright 1922, First Printing (no date to copyright page, 1922 date on title page, ragged right and bottom page block), only lists "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" to left of title page, white endpapers, dark greenish black cloth boards with light bluish green lettering & art deco boarder design to spine & front board. Book has neo crease page corner, former owner's name/address to ffe otherwise no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, clean endpapers with no markings or tape residue, no foxing to pages, endpapers, or outer page edges, slight dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges (no foxing), faint moisture outline mark to top outer page edge, no tears/repairs to internal hinges, tight flat pages, almost no spine sun darkening, no cloth wear-through to board edges or board corners, slight wear to spine tips, no tears to exterior hinges, faint water spot marks to boards (only noticable when book held at an angle) otherwise almost no dust/handling discoloration to boards, otherwise no soiling stains/discoloration to boards. Book also comes with a color facsimile of the UK Bodley Head issue Dust jacket to provide protection from damage and to improve its appearance on a shelf. Overall a VG+/FINE- book of a very rare 1920s era UK Bodley Head/John Lane Agatha Christie U.K. first printing of her 2nd book. I have a number of other U.K. and U.S. Agatha Christie 1st printing hardcover books up for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Agatha Christie (1922) The Secret Adversary , UK first edition, first printing, published by The Bodley Head. Accompanied by an original typed letter signed by Christie as Agatha Mallowan. The book: in very good condition and well preserved for a book from 1922. There are no previous owner s scribbles, no names, no bookplates, no stamps. The lettering on the spine is clearly legible and not rubbed out. The front board s ornaments are there with just a little rubbing. Rear board is clean. Usual shelf wear to edges. Page block edges not foxed, toned commensurate with age. Internally faint foxing spots here and there such as on our sample image of page 55. The original dust jacket is not present. However, we do provide a facsimile dust jacket which presents and protects the book on the shelf nicely. Those early Christie original dust jackets are exceptionally scarce and add considerable sums to the price. The letter: one page, 8vo, on Christie s stationary paper with Winterbrook House header, dated 18th February 1972 [exactly fifty years after The Secret Adversary s publication in 1922]. In the letter to John Higgins, Christie counts that by then she had published 81 books, the same number as her age. She further says that she know nothing about the exact number of sales, but notes that they increase every year. She signs as Agatha Mallowan. John Dalby Higgins (1934-1999) was a journalist and Arts Editor for The Times (1970-1988). In 1972 he asked Christie whether she would be willing to serve a judge for a Times short story competition to which Christie agreed. Higgins needed from Christie some background information to introduce her to the readership. Hence, this letter. In fine condition with two paperclip indentations to the top left corner as shown. The Secret Adversary is Dame Agatha Christie s second novel only preceeded by The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1921). It was received well upon publication. A first German film adaptation followed in 1929 (silent film called Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H.). A TV adaptation follows in 1983 and as recently as 2014 produced by the BBC. First and Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First US edition 1923. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Black mark to lower portion of spine. Endpapers have been neatly reinforced with sellotape. Ink inscriptions on frt. pastedown and f.e.p. Pr evious owner's bookplate on f.e.p. Else good in original green cloth with title in orange. Very scarce. Product Information The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923 and, in the same year, in the UK by The Bodley Head in May. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development "greatly desired on Agatha's part. parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine." Reviews when it was published compared Mrs Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Remarking on Poirot, still a new character, one reviewer said he was "a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors; and one even suspects a touch of satire in him (Wikipedia).

First UK edition, first printing. Bound in full green crushed morocco by Baker Bindery, Alabama (for Asprey). Five raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and titles in gilt to the spine. Upper and lower boards ruled in gilt. Inner dentelles double ruled and with corner pieces in gilt. Green patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. The publisher's original orange cloth bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents spotlessly clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Agatha Christie's third novel and by a small margin her scarcest in the British first edition. Featuring Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. (Hubin) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. HARDBACK - A very good book with orange boards that is a little faded to the spine. Light soiling to the rear panel. Internally, the pages are generally clean with the odd sporadic finger mark found to the inner text. The books front and rear hinges have at some time been strengthened, with no splitting to the books hinges. No previous owner names or insriptions are present, with the book solidly bound, no signs of spine lean or rolling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Christie's third novel and her scarcest. Especially rare in the original cloth. rear free and paper has some writing in pencil. This is a very good first edition, housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Bon état. 1924. Bon état.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. First US. A true first US edition, with 1924 on the title page and no references to later printings on the copyright page. Ex-library in library binding with library stamp on title page. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK Edition stated on verso of title page ' First Published in 1924' with half title, title page and dedication page followed by 310 numbered pages plus 2-page publishers advert at the back. Grey cloth with brown stamped border and title on front and on spine. Some light wear to corners and edges. M.G. written in top corner of front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing with exposed netting, rear endpapers yellowed and stained also with netting exposed making the boards loose but still firmly attached. Apart from the odd blemish pages are clean and tightly bound. Over all a Good Copy of this scarce UK First Edition.

Hard Cover. First Edition. (London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1924). First UK Edition, First Issue "First published in 1924" to the copyright page. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown on front and spine. One blank leaf, 3 leaves, 310 pages plus 2 pages of ads at back. Fore and bottom page edges uncut. Top page edges stained brown. A good only copy. Rubbed and creased with a neat former owner's name to the front free end-paper, several marks to the boards, hinges starting, spine tips softened, some foxing which has crept into the text block Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 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.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. The first edition, rare. In original decorated cloth. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. An excellent first edition of this early work by the Queen of Crime Fiction, Agatha Christie, being the first to feature Colonel Johnny Race. The first edition, first impression, with 'first published in 1924' to copyright page. Published in the US later the same year.With a leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.A standalone work, The Man in the Brown Suit tells the story of a young woman, Anne Beddingfield, who picks up a mysterious piece of paper after she witnesses the death of a man in a tube station. The novel is the first to feature Colonel Race, a lion hunter and spy for the British Government. Race would become a recurring character, featuring in a number of novels alongside her fan-favourite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.Upon release, the work was met with mixed reception, with many hoping for another novel to feature Poirot. The work has since been praised both for its thriller feel and as the only work to explore a more emotive side of Colonel Race.From the library of Rolling Stone, Charlie Watts.A smart copy of this early standalone Agatha Christie novel. In the original decorative brown cloth binding. Externally smart, with marks to the boards. Slight rubbing to the extremities and minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with age toning due to paper used and the very occasional spot. Offsetting to endpapers. Very Good. book.

[Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, First impression. A lovely copy finely bound by Temple book bindery in 3/4 red morocco with contrasting black lettering labels to spine with title and author. Five raised bands to spine with gilt tooling. Marbled end papers and gilt page edges. Internally very good +.

[Mystery novel] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; [2]; 310. Publisher's navy cloth, red titles to upper and spine. Top edge red, fore untrimmed. A short tear at the top of the spine, one corner bumped, else very good indeed. Rather scarce. A murder-mystery for Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard. "Reckoned by her critics to be one of the best of Christie's early thrillers" [Wagstaff and Poole, p.39].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. AGATHA CHRISTIE complete novelette "THE UNDER DOG" in Mystery Magazine - April 1, 1926 issue - TRUE WORLDWIDE 1ST PRINTING (published 6 months later in the UK in the October 1926 edition of The London Magazine - published in book form (2 New Crime Stories) in the UK in 1929, in the U.S. in 1951 in "The Under Dog and Other Stories" and then the first UK Agatha Christie only book in 1960 "The Adventure Of the Christmas Pudding and Other Stories". With the exception of Blue Book Magazine (which are fairly common from the 1920s), pre-1930 magazines like this are near impossible to find (particularly with both covers intact). Magazine is nice - minimal wear to squared spine - only tiny losses at spine tips (no lettering affected - spine chipping is extremely common with these 1920s pulp mags), cover (as is usual) is taller than the page block thus causing excessive wear/creasing along bottom edge, cheap paper while age yellowed is worn at corners and just starting to brittle/flake (as is often found), no other chipping, tearing or creasing to cover, no missing pages, rear cover intact, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, edge wear, no soiling or staining to cover. Overall a VG condition magazine of a rare Agatha Christie 1920s true 1st worldwide printing of this story (published years/decades before it was published in an Agatha Christie book). I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Agatha Christie 1st printing hardcover/ paperback/magazine appearances up for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First impression of the 'popular edition' from 1926 (not the true 1st) in good condition, there is a previous owner inscription to ffep and spotting to some pages, page 33/34 is loose at the bottom but still attached at the top. the jacket is a facsimile copy, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, First impression. A lovely copy finely bound by Temple book bindery in 3/4 red morocco with contrasting black lettering labels to spine with title and author. Five raised bands to spine with gilt tooling. Marbled end papers and gilt page edges. Internally very good +.

[Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth, red lettered title and border, with titles in red to spine. Contents clean, edges toned with some spotting, top edge browned, neat ink ownership to free endpaper, some specks to rear cover, rubbed to extremities. A very good copy of this landmark Hercule Poirot mystery. The definitive Christie mystery; widely regarded as one of the most influential crime novels ever written, and often considered the author's masterpiece.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of one of Agatha Christie's most celebrated novels, a work which marked a turning point in her early career. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.This landmark of detective fiction was Christie's third novel to feature Hercule Poirot, and was her first best seller.The innovative ending significantly impacted the genre of detective fiction, and resulted in this work frequently being identified as the best crime novel of all time.With a small ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, with light offsetting of the ink to the front pastedown.One of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, it was Christie's first work to be released by her longstanding publisher, William Collins. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with small splits in the cloth towards the head and tail of rear joint. Light marks to rear board. Ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, with light offsetting of the ink to the front pastedown. light ink mark to fore edge of text block. Tail of rear free endpaper removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, and generally clean, with instances of light spotting to the first and last few few leaves, and only the odd further instance of spotting. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie First Edition W. Collins Sons & Co. 1926. No name inscriptions, completely free of any foxing and clean throughout. A near fine book. Covers are bright with only a touch of toning to spine. Note on rear endpaper reads "The Silk Stocking Murders / by Anthony Berkeley. (1928) / is dedicated "to A.B. Cox who very kindly wrote / this book for me in his spare time". !! ". This title is from a collection of books that included several of Anthony Berkeley's personal copies. The writer of the inscription is unknown. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.