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CHRISTIE, AGATHA.
Murder
in Mesopotamia.
8vo, original orange
cloth, spine very lightly faded; dust jacket,
scattered light dust-soiling, few small cor-
ner nicks, one small cellotape repair to
verso of spine panel head; unclipped; some
discoloration on endpapers as usual, Crime
Club membership postcard laid-in; housed
in custom drop-back case.
London: Collins, for the Crime Club,
(1936)
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
UNUSUALLY NICE COPY
.
The
evocative jacket design is by Robin Macartney,
who participated in archaeological expeditions
with the author and her husband Max
Mallowan.
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA.
Peril at
End House.
8vo, publisher’s tan buckram
stamped in red; dust jacket designed by
Beth Krebs Morris, chips to portion of
spine panel head and top of front panel
touching a few letters, few short closed
tears, creasing, unclipped; contents clean.
NewYork: Dodd Mead, 1932
[700/1,000]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
of a work based
on an actual location visited by Christie in her
hometown of Torquay. A Hercule Poirot Red
Badge Mystery.