Christie (Agatha) Thirteen at Dinner
£2,250
New York, Dodd, Mead, 1933.
First US edition (UK Lord Edgware Dies). 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An attractive first US edition of this key Poirot title, published first in the UK, in the same month, under the title Lord Edgware Dies.
Out of stock
A very good copy, in price-clipped benefitting from some professional restoration to spine ends.
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