The first edition, first impression of this Agatha Christie murder-mystery, featuring amateur detective Miss Marple.
The first edition, first impression.
With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.
This novel sees amateur detective Miss Marple solving a mystery in St Mary Mead, where an American actress Marina Gregg has recently moved and bought Gossington Hall, once the home of Marple's friend Dolly Bantry.
From Agatha Christie, one of the most prolific and successful detective writers of her time, writing sixty-six detective novels in total, the most popular of which typically revolve around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
She is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers, particularly in the mystery genre, and has been given the nickname "Queen of Crime" as a result.
In the original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Externally, very smart indeed, with minor bumping to the spine head and tail.
Dust wrapper is mildly sunned to the spine, with chipping to the head and tail and to the front panel.
Smaller loss to the folds' heads and tails.
Spotting to the rear panel.
Internally, firmly bound.
Minor offsetting to the endpapers and a neat contemporary ink inscription to the front paste down, otherwise pages are bright and clean.
Near Fine