Poirot Loses Client by Christie Agatha, First Edition (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Ed. First paperback ed. Good condition, moderate over all wear, cover creases, moisture stains to page edges and top of covers, bookstore stamp on title page, upper right corner of title page torn off, name on first page. Avon #70. List of titles on inside back cover goes up to #70. Book.

Paperback. first PB. 70, good, creases (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback,

Mass_Market. Condition: Good. 1st ptg. 252 pp.

Condition: Good. 1968. First Printing. 252 pages. Paperback book. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Teason, William (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Dell Printing. Slight edge wear and rubbing. Slight tanning. An attractive copy. ; Dell 6984. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 252 pages; "Hercule Poirot opened the envelope and read death between the lines. Unfortunately, the terrified message came too late. The lady who had written it was already in her grave, her bizarre will had been approved by law, and the case was officially closed. . . until the greatest detective of them all lifted the lid on a viper's nest of greed, deception, and jealousy. Poirot vowed that this time he would not be too late to stop a brilliant and baffling killer who was about to strike again. . . .".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1945 printing. First Avon printing. Spine is not broken. Very slight handling wear. No major creases or rubbing.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 1? Edición. Tapa blanda. Buen estado. Nota en hoja de guarda. Literatura inglesa S. XX.Novela. Idioma Inglés.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. 1st Printing. Lacks dust jacket. Heavy edgewear with fraying to corners, spine head and foot, chip to spine head that extends to first letter of title. Sunfading to spine. Book is slightly cocked. First several pages pulling away from hinge but not actually starting. Glue offset stains on endpapers ; Orange boards with black titles, with celophane covering. Red Badge Detective series ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint; 1st Printing Thus. Hardcover with DUST JACKET. Tower Books Edition, 1st printing thus, Nov. 1943. Top corners and spine extremeties have light bumping and rubbing. Top edges of boards are age-darkened. Page edges age-darkened. Former owner's name and address inked on front fly leaf. Small ownership sticker also on front fly leaf. Pages are age-toned. DJ has small chips to spine extremeties and corners as well as one small ship to edge or rear panel. Light surface rubbing and light soiling to DJ rear panel. DJ spine somewhat sun-darkened. Still a decent DJ. ; 23A; 8-1/4 x 5-1/2"; 302 pages.

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Frances Tipton Hunter (cover), F R Gruger, Henry Raleigh, and others (illustrator). First Edition. The December 5, 1936 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably Vendee, a short story by William Faulkner, and part 5 of 7 Poirot Loses a Client, a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie. Other fiction include Troy Weight, a short story by J P Marquand. There is also an article ("I Was So Scared .") by Jay Berwanger, winner of the first Heisman Trophy (1935). Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (Here Boy!). Light wear and soiling to the covers. Small corner folds at the bottom. A good to very good copy with fiction by prominent and important authors.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Norman Rockwell, misletoe Christmas cover (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo, 302pp. (plus [2]pp. preview of Christie's subsequent novel at rear). A crisp, clean, very good copy in the publisher's orange cloth, stamped in black. Some rubbing to cloth at extremities, spine gently cocked, but a sound, clean, unmarked example, lacking the dust jacket. Facsimile dust jacket included (sunned gently on spine). The UK title was "Dumb Witness.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. 1937. First edition, first printing with 1937 on the title page, with matching date copyright page, with no further printings listed. No DJ. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. Orange topstain, as issued. Orange cloth with titles stamped in black. Illustrated red and cream endpapers, with Red Badge Detective insignia and lightning bolts. Plot synopsis on fly, as issued. Orange cloth shows light soiling, mostly on rear panel. Shelf-rubbing along edges and tips. Endpapers show light soiling. Light soiling, and faint foxing to page edges. White pencil on front panel near crown.Panels would clean up nicely with little effort. This mystery features Hercule Poirot and is narrated by his friend Arthur Hastings. It is the last book to feature the character of Hastings until the final Poirot novel, 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which Hastings also narrates. A solid first edition, first printing of a pre-1940 Christie first printing; released in the UK under the title Dumb Witness.

Condition: Fair. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering in pictorial dust jacket, top edge dyed orange. 307pp. Fair book. Fair dust jacket. Ex-Library copy from Lazaar's Circulating Library of Plainfield, New Jersey, with usual markings. Dust jacket is worn and has several tears and is glued to the pastedowns. Spine slightly slanted. Front hinge cracked. Front endpage torn out. Many page corners dog-eared. Pencil notation on rear endpage. In polypropylene bag. (Hercule Poirot, Detectives, Mystery) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in near fine wrapper that has small infil at base of rear panel, a beautiful copy.

[Murder Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 302; [2], sample pages reprinted from 'Dead Man's Mirror'. Publisher's orange cloth pictorially blocked in black, top edge orange, others untrimmed, patterned endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at $2.00. Small legal 'price guarantee' label on the front flap, with pale ghost offset to free endpaper else a very fine copy in a bright, fresh dust jacket with minor wear to spine tips and corners. An exceptional copy. The US version of the Hercule Poirot mystery 'Dumb Witness', first published in 1937, centring on the mysterious and sudden death of a wealthy spinster.