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Agatha Christie
细节
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). The Mystery of the Blue Train. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [1928].
The dedication copy of the first edition, inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher: ‘Carlo, with love from Agatha (Poor old Missus)’. No presentation copy appears in auction records. The printed dedication reads ‘To the two distinguished members of the O.F.D. [Order of the Faithful Dogs] Carlotta and Peter’; Peter was a wirehaired terrier bought by Christie in 1924. Some years later during the Second World War when Charlotte was away doing war work, Christie wrote to her husband Max Mallowan: ‘I need a Carlo or two about – a dogsbody, that’s what I need!’ (quoted in Lindsey, p. 343).
Octavo. Original blue cloth, upper cover lettered in red within single red fillet border, spine lettered in red (some spotting mostly to second gathering, spine somewhat faded, very slight wear to spine ends and extremities); original dust-jacket supplied from another copy (expert repairs and restoration to upper half of front panel including most of the author’s name and title, spine [mostly to title at head] and top of lower panel and folds, somewhat dust-stained). Provenance: Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper and posthumous book label).
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). The Mystery of the Blue Train. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [1928].
The dedication copy of the first edition, inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher: ‘Carlo, with love from Agatha (Poor old Missus)’. No presentation copy appears in auction records. The printed dedication reads ‘To the two distinguished members of the O.F.D. [Order of the Faithful Dogs] Carlotta and Peter’; Peter was a wirehaired terrier bought by Christie in 1924. Some years later during the Second World War when Charlotte was away doing war work, Christie wrote to her husband Max Mallowan: ‘I need a Carlo or two about – a dogsbody, that’s what I need!’ (quoted in Lindsey, p. 343).
Octavo. Original blue cloth, upper cover lettered in red within single red fillet border, spine lettered in red (some spotting mostly to second gathering, spine somewhat faded, very slight wear to spine ends and extremities); original dust-jacket supplied from another copy (expert repairs and restoration to upper half of front panel including most of the author’s name and title, spine [mostly to title at head] and top of lower panel and folds, somewhat dust-stained). Provenance: Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper and posthumous book label).
