Absent Spring, First Edition (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Leather Bound. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Mass Market Paperback. Near fine-. Bright and attractive mass market paperback. First dell printing. Hint of staining to fore edge of page ends. Very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First edition. A reissue of the 1944 original. Book is very slightly shelf worn. Dust jacket similar. Not price clipped.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First edition thus of this nice trade paperback. Circa 1970's or 80's.

Paperback. first edition. 0011 near fine, unread 1963 paperback,

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1967 edition. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Condition: VG/GD. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Reprint thus.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: Dell* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers, Some slight shelf wear to edges & corners, Slight creases to front & back corners. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, Slight tanning. GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 192 pp. text. No Index.* Product Description :- Joan thought her marriage a happy one, her husband a man she could depend on always. But step by step the veils of illusion were stripped from her terrified eyes ? and suddenly she was in the midst of a waking nightmare, wed to a man she realised was a stranger ~ a man who dreamed of getting rid of her, by whatever means were necessary. Agatha Christie writing under the name of Mary Westmacott displays a dazzling new facet of her spellbinding genius in this unforgettable novel of breathless romance, intrigue & danger. This is a GOOD copy of the 2nd. Impression of the DELL edition. n.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minotaur Books, New York, 2001, Trade paperback, First Edition Thus/First printing with a complete number line ending in '1'. Contains: Absent In The Spring, Giant's Bread and The Rose And The Yew Tree. Book is Very good , age toning to the pages, black marker remainder line on the bottom of the text block, minor and near invisible soiling on the text base, small mark and light sunning on the top of text - a tight clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Harper Collins, New York, 1995, mass market paperback, First Thus with a complete number line. Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott; book is volume II and contains three of her six 'romantic' novels: Giant's Bread, Unfinished Portrait, Absent In The Spring. Book condition: wear to the cover, partial crease at the top corner; edgewear, a few other light creases, ffep is corner clipped and has two rubber stamps for an earlier seller,'600' small and indented at the top corner cover (no ink but an indent of an earlier price), two light creases at spine, 2 dings at the bottom of the cover, light surface scratches on the rear; age toning to the pages, but still a tight internally clean tight copy. Listed as Good - a scarce item.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in boards. Date at top of half title page. ; Agatha Christie Hardcover Collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 160 pages. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Spine is sunned. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original greyish blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has just a few very light marks and is entirely without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). Scarce, exceptionally so in this condition. Agatha Christie's third book (of six) published under the Mary Westmacott pseudonym. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 "From you have I been absent in the spring,". The first edition was published in August 1944, the American edition (issued by Farrar and Rinehart) followed later the same year. Christie, in her autobiography (Collins, 1977) writes of 'Absent in the Spring': "Shortly after that, I wrote the one book that has satisfied me completely. It was a new Mary Westmacott, the book that I had always wanted to write, that had been clear in my mind. It was the picture of a woman with a complete image of herself, of what she was, but about which she was completely mistaken. Through her own actions, her own feelings and thoughts, this would be revealed to the reader. She would be, as it were, continually meeting herself, not recognising herself, but becoming increasingly uneasy. What brought about this revelation would be the fact that for the first time in her life she was alone completely alone for four or five days. I wrote that book in three days flatI went straight throughI don't think I have ever been so tiredI didn't want to change a word and although I don't know myself of course what it is really like, it was written as I meant to write it, and that is the proudest joy and author can have". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.