43 130
85
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WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS.
The Birds’ Christmas Carol.
Square
12mo, original printed wrappers, front
cover detached and stained, backstrip
rubbed with slight loss to head and foot,
vertical crease; contents clean; preserved in
chemise and
1
/
4
morocco slipcase.
San Francisco: C.A. Murdock & Co., 1887
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION OF A FRAGILE AND SCARCE
TITLE
.
THE AUTHOR
’
S FIRST PUBLISHED
BOOK
.
ABPC records only four copies sold
since 1990. Issued in both red, and black,
printed wrappers, this copy in black (no prior-
ity). Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 86.
85
87
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CHRISTIE,AGATHA.
The Hound
of Death and Other Stories.
8vo, pub-
lisher’s plum cloth, spine faded as usual,
light mottling to front cover; dust jacket,
tape repairs on verso, 1-
1
/
2
inch chip at
spine panel foot, creases and a few nicks;
ownership stamps to front pastedown and
rear blank.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
.
London: Odhams Press, (1933)
[300/400]
86
87
86
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA.
Death on
the Nile.
8vo, publisher’s pictorial tan
cloth, small soil mark to bottom of front
cover; first issue dust jacket, folds and
edges rubbed not touching letters, corners
clipped with price intact, tape repairs to
verso, semicircle chip to rear panel, endpa-
pers browned from binding glue.
NewYork: Dodd Mead, 1938
[500/750]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
,
with the overprinting on rear
flap.Inthe advertisement
for the book Fast Company, the “erroneously”
listed author, Harry Kurnitz, is blacked out
and the “correct” author’s name, Marco Page
(in fact, Kurnitz’s pseudonym), is printed
below.A Hercule Poirot Red Badge Mystery.