Christie (Agatha) They Came to Baghdad
£250
London, Collins Crime Club, 1951.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8s.6d.
A pleasing copy of this Agatha Christie first edition, a hard dust-jacket to find in such condition due to its proneness to fading and marking. The story itself builds upon Christie’s own excursions alongside her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, and is more of a spy novel than a whodunnit.
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Later ownership inscription to front free endpaper; cloth spine slightly dulled, o/w VG; jacket with some very minor rubbing and marking, small closed tear to one fore-corner, red at spine slightly dulled, overall VG.
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