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They Came To Baghdad
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Sehr gut/Sehr gut
- Seller
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Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Item Price
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About This Item
London and Glasgow: Collins Crime Club, 1951 First Edition London and Glasgow 1951. 256 pp. Book very good+, Dustwrapper very good+. Not price clipped. Original price of 8 shillings and six pence.
Book has a light wear at the spine and a little toning on the top edges. It has very slight browning and foxing on the edges of the textblock. Otherwise clean and a little bit age tanned.
Dustwrapper has a lite wear and chipping along top and bottom edge near spine. Slight darkning to spine. Back panel has some minimal foxing. See photos.
Synopsis
E-book exclusive extras: 'Agatha Christie in Baghdad,' extensive selections from Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Plus: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Came to Baghdad.Agatha Christie first visited Baghdad as a tourist in 1927; many years later she would become a resident of the exotic and then open city, and it was here, and while on archaeological digs throughout Iraq with her husband, Sir Max Mallowan, that Agatha Christie wrote some of her most important works.They Came to Baghdad is one of Agatha Christie's highly successful forays into the spy thriller genre. In this novel, Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. But the word is out, and an underground organisation is plotting to sabotage the talks.Into this explosive situation stumbles Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded secret agent dies in her hotel room. Now, if only she could make sense of his final words: 'Lucifer... Basrah... Lefarge...'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat
(DE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000027
- Title
- They Came To Baghdad
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Sehr gut
- Jacket Condition
- Sehr gut
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1. Auflage
- Publisher
- Collins Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London and Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Agatha Christie, crime fiction, Collins Crime Club, Rare Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agatha Christie;
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Oestrich-Winkel
About Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat
Nik's Bookstore is an online business which is located nearby Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We deliver Rare Books almost worldwide in superb quality. Most of them are scarce First Editions or Illustrated Author's Editions. Nik's Bookstore is member of the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association).
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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- Age Tanned
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- Price Clipped
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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