Agatha Christie 1s printing hardcover books up for sale.Published: June 1950 by Collins Crime ClubĪll hail the queen of murder mystery, Agatha Christie! Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in GD- condition dust jacket (price clipped) of a rare early 1950s era UK Agatha Christie 1st printing with original 1st state dust jacket. Dust jacket has considerable chipping, tearing, and creasing, wear to spine tips, wear to front flap crease, no spine sun fading, slight dust soiling to white areas (common with this light colored DJ) otherwise no soiling or staining to panels, considerable edge wear. Book has no creased page corners, no former ownership markings or used book store marks/stamps/stickers inside, clean endpapers - no tape staining or markings, no foxing to pages or endpapers, slight age darkening/dust soiling/foxing to outer page edges, no spine lean, tight white pages with sharp corners, no wear to board edges, board corners, or to spine tips, no spine sun fading of note, ever so tiny discoloration/fade spot along top edge otherwise no soiling or stains, no wear/loss to black spine lettering.

AGATHA CHRISTIE - A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED, published by Collins, copyright 1950, FIRST PRINTING (says 'Copyright - Printed in Great Britain - 1950' on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings, lists to 'Crooked House' on list of Christie books to left of title page, redish orange boards with black lettering on spine, correct 1st state DJ with Christie's picture on rear panel and references to Crooked House & Taken At The Flood (2nd state DJ has review for They Came to Baghdad on rear panel). When the OBE was bestowed on Hickson in June 1987 Queen Elizabeth II was reported to have said 'You play the part just as one envisages it'. Hickson played the role in all 12 adaptations of the novels produced from 1984 to 1992, and received two BAFTA nominations for Best TV Actress, in 19. The BBC began filming the Miss Marple stories in the mid 1980s, and set out to remain faithful to the plotlines and locales of Agatha Christie's stories, and to represent Miss Marple as written. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, some browning, soiling and spotting to page block, rear flap torn, not price clipped (£9.95), no personal inscriptions, internally tight, overall a reasonable copy for its age and ex library. Ex library with usual stamps, defects and library mess, in brown vinyl library binding. The first television tie in edition, with the incomparable Joan Hickson (1906-98), on front cover, as Miss Marple.

First collected edition, first impression. BBC jacket photo by John Green (illustrator).

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