Mrs McGinty's Dead: CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976) Mrs McGinty's Dead: CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)

Mrs McGinty's Dead

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)

Published by London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952
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[Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188 [4]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrative dust-jacket. Internally clean with no inscriptions, some rolling to spine, dust-jacket price-clipped, gentle spotting to rear panel, some spotting visible only to inside of dust-jacket. A most attractive copy. Very good. Poirot is back. Basis for the 1964 MGM movie 'Murder Most Foul' starring Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody. Filmed as part of the classic series with Rutherford as Miss Marple, although originally written by Christie as a case for Hercule Poirot. Seller Inventory # 65067

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Title: Mrs McGinty's Dead
Publisher: London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition

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CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
Published by London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952 (1952)
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Book Description [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, illustrated jacket panel bound in at rear. Contents clean, exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. "Mrs McGinty was dead. She was hit on the back of the head with some sharp, heavy implement and her pitifully small savings were taken. The inimitable Poirot, with his slightly comical aspect, his "little grey cells" and his genuinely warm heart, returns in an ingenious detective novel that once again earns for Agatha Christie the justifiable epithet of "incomparable".". Seller Inventory # 67010

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CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
Published by London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952 (1952)
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Book Description [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4] of advertisements. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Internally clean and bright. A fine copy in a handsome leather binding. "Mrs McGinty was dead. She was hit on the back of the head with some sharp, heavy implement and her pitifully small savings were taken. The inimitable Poirot, with his slightly comical aspect, his "little grey cells" and his genuinely warm heart, returns in an ingenious detective novel that once again earns for Agatha Christie the justifiable epithet of "incomparable".". Seller Inventory # 60811

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CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
Published by London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952 (1952)
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Book Description [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper by Kenneth Farnhill priced at 9/6. Book is slightly dusty, no inscriptions. Jacket with a little wear to joints and extremities, small area of soiling to rear panel; very good indeed. A smart and presentable copy of an increasingly difficult title. "Mrs McGinty was dead. She was hit on the back of the head with some sharp, heavy implement and her pitifully small savings were taken. The inimitable Poirot, with his slightly comical aspect, his "little grey cells" and his genuinely warm heart, returns in an ingenious detective novel that once again earns for Agatha Christie the justifiable epithet of "incomparable".". Seller Inventory # 62252

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CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
Published by London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972 (1972)
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Book Description [Mystery / Crime] COMPLETE SET AS PUBLISHED. In 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spines, and further gilt and red decoration to uppers. Top edges and endpapers orange. All volumes with the original photographic dust-jackets, not priced. Also with the original publisher's prospectus for the series, predicting a total of 20 volumes, loosely inserted to volume I. Very little fading to some jacket spines, and some minor general wear to extremities, toning/spotting of edges etc. Near fine. This impressive collection was issued over a two-year period and is complete as published. It includes all Christie's published crime novels up to 1971, with a new foreword by the author in the first volume. Known originally as one of the four Queens of Crime, Christie's prominence has grown to the point where to many she is simply The Queen. This collection features many novels that changed the face of the crime genre, and are regarded as masterpieces of fiction. Seller Inventory # 63998

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Book Description [Mystery / Crime] LEATHER BOUND SET. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Handsomely bound in black half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and navy cloth over boards. A few minor spots to volume containing 'Lord Edgware Dies.' Marginal archival repairs to title and contents leaf of volume containing 'Ordeal by Innocence.' Otherwise a clean set presented in an attractive new leather binding. This impressive collection was issued over a two-year period and is complete as published. It includes all her published crime novels up to 1971, with a new foreword by the author in the first volume. Known originally as one of the four Queens of Crime, Christie's prominence has grown to the point where to many she is simply The Queen. This collection features many novels that changed the face of the crime genre, and are regarded as masterpieces of fiction. Seller Inventory # 63632

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CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)
Published by London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972 (1972)
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Book Description [Mystery / Crime] LEATHER BOUND SET. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Handsomely bound in red half calf, with raised bands ruled in gilt, twin black title labels lettered in gilt, matching red cloth over boards, top edges gilt. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine set in an attractive recent leather binding. This impressive collection was issued over a two-year period and is complete as published. It includes all her published crime novels up to 1971, with a new foreword by the author in the first volume. Known originally as one of the four Queens of Crime, Christie's prominence has grown to the point where to many she simply is The Queen. This collection features many novels that changed the face of the crime genre, and are regarded as masterpieces of fiction. Seller Inventory # 68101

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