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Hercule Poirot's Casebook
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0396084176
- ISBN 13
- 9780396084174
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1984 Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. 1984. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head, tail, upper tips and board edges. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($15.95); light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. Cream paper over boards with blue overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 860 pp 8vo. Here for the first time in one volume is the compete collection of fifty stories about Hercule Poirot.This book contains all the Poirot short stories, but not the novels. There is variety in the length of the cases, which range from "The Wasp's Nest," a very brief tale of a crime prevented, to "The Under Dog," a story of almost novella length about the trapping of a killer. These and all the other brilliant stories make Poirot's Casebook solid, satisfying entertainment. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016710
- Title
- Hercule Poirot's Casebook
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0396084176
- ISBN 13
- 9780396084174
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, detective fiction, murder fiction, Agatha Christie short stories, Agatha Christie detective short stories,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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