Christie (Agatha) Murder in Mesopotamia
£14,950
London, Collins Crime Club, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Scarce in the superb Macartney dust-jacket. One of a few Christie titles that resulted from her time spent on archaeological digs with her second husband, Max Mallowan.
In stock
Internally very good; cloth slightly mottled with minor sunning to extreme top edge; jacket unclipped, with some conservation work to reverse at top and bottom of spine-ends/folds.
Jacket artwork by Robin Macartney.
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