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The Body in the Library
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London / Sydney: The Crime Club / Collins. 1942. 1st Australian edition, octavo, pp.vi, 198, prev. owner's inscr to upper t.p., sl. cocked, lacking ffep, front hinge tender / starting, pages tanned (as usual for war-time publication), bookseller's ticket (Book Lovers' Book Store, Perth, Western Australia) to lower front paste-down, original orange cloth bds. in lightly chipped and closed tear to lower price-clipped protected dust-jacket, with some fishing to rear with little loss of text. Very good condition. Very scarce first Australian edition published same year as first US and UK editions. Collins to lower book spine and 'The Crime Club' to lower d.j. spine. A list of author's 3 latest titles on rear d.j. flap, all printed in 1941 with no references to subsequent printings. The novel features the author's fictional amateur detective, Miss Marple. 1st Australian. Boards in d.j..
Synopsis
The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Muir Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 99470
- Title
- The Body in the Library
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Boards in d.j.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Australian
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Crime Club / Collins
- Place of Publication
- London / Sydney
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Modern 1st editions, Mystery, Novel, Women
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- SL.
- slight
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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