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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by CHRISTIE Agatha
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Collins, 1950 (500 gram rate) NINETEENTH IMPRESSION of first edition ( after 1926 first impression), red cloth with black titling and Crime Club logo to spine, light handling soiling to boards, pen inscription to fep, lean to spine, 312pp, unclipped DW, spine chipped at corners and with loss of CRIME CLUB to tail, some edge chipping, same format as original issue, with the DW by Ellen Edwards, but much later. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Ellen Edwards . 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
Synopsis
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons in June 1926 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on the 19th of the same month. It features Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. It is one of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009283
- Title
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Author
- CHRISTIE Agatha
- Illustrator
- Ellen Edwards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Agatha Christie Early Edition Rare Collectable Crime Fiction Modern first Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIME & THRILLER Fiction;
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About Fortuna Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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