Christie (Agatha) Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
£8,500
London, Collins Crime Club, 1938.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A family reunites for Christmas, only to find the host of the gathering murdered in a private room… Classic Poirot, in the superbly festive dust-jacket.
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A little minor foxing; cloth with minor sunning to spine ends and top edge, otherwise very good; jacket with a few minor closed tears and some minor restoration to spine ends, but in effect a very good example.
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