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Agatha Christie
细节
Lord Edgware Dies
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). Lord Edgware Dies. London: for The Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1933
First edition in book form, first impression, in the very rare original dust-jacket. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher: ‘With love from Agatha.’ A wonderful association copy. According to RareBookHub only 3 copies of the first edition in the dust-jacket are recorded sold at auction in over 40 years. Hubin p. 80.
Octavo. 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black (spine sunned, top edges of boards dust-stained, edges faintly spotted, spine ends and one corner slightly bumped, extremities a trifle rubbed); original pictorial dust-jacket, assumed first state with price 7/6 in red ink on spine, supplied from another copy (lower panel with extensive repaired tears, head and parts of spine chipped with small loss, spine slightly discoloured, lower panel and folds somewhat dust-stained). Provenance: Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper, and with Fisher’s posthumous book label).
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). Lord Edgware Dies. London: for The Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1933
First edition in book form, first impression, in the very rare original dust-jacket. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher: ‘With love from Agatha.’ A wonderful association copy. According to RareBookHub only 3 copies of the first edition in the dust-jacket are recorded sold at auction in over 40 years. Hubin p. 80.
Octavo. 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black (spine sunned, top edges of boards dust-stained, edges faintly spotted, spine ends and one corner slightly bumped, extremities a trifle rubbed); original pictorial dust-jacket, assumed first state with price 7/6 in red ink on spine, supplied from another copy (lower panel with extensive repaired tears, head and parts of spine chipped with small loss, spine slightly discoloured, lower panel and folds somewhat dust-stained). Provenance: Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper, and with Fisher’s posthumous book label).
