Christie (Agatha) N or M
£650
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d..
Grosset & Dunlap edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive edition, published the same year as the trade first. A wartime thriller featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, tasked with uncovering enemy agents operating in Britain during the Second World War.
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Minor rubbing/sunning to extreme top edge of cloth; jacket with some edge wear and minor loss.
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