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Christie (Agatha) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
£95
and a Selection of Entrées
London, Collins Crime Club, 1960.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket.
A decent first edition of this Hercule Poirot title, featuring five cases set in an English country house at Christmas time.
Out of stock
Ink name to front free endpaper, mild oxidising to endpaper; cloth very good; jacket a little rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good example.
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