Ten Little Niggers

London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1939. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding clean, square and bright, the contents lightly spotted to the text block edge otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner’s inscriptions or stamps. Dated 1939 to the copyright page. Complete with the genuinely very good or better rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which remains very clean and bright with a little fading of the red lettering on the spine and a couple of short closed tears. The correct first issue price of 7s 6d net is present to the front flap, as called for. A very attractive example in entirely original condition. Scarce thus. Published in the US (one month later) and UK subsequently as “And Then There Were None”. Considered by many to be Agatha Christie’s finest and indisputably with over 100 million copies sold, one of the world’s best-selling mystery novels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

1939. CHRISTIE, Agatha. TEN LITTLE NIGGERS. London: The Crime Club, [1939]. Small 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First English Edition. Undoubtedly Christie's most politically-incorrect title by today's standards. The title was changed to "Ten Little Indians" when the book was published in America and the design of the dust jacket was also changed. The title was again changed to "And Then There Were None" for the 1945 movie version, which is probably the best film adaptation of any Christie novel. Very Good (minor soil covers); in an attrractive dust jacket that has some professional resotration, particularly to several former chips and to the spine ends. Enclosed in a custom-designed clam-shell box depicting a Negro baby on the front cover. An attractive copy of a scarce title. $9000.00.

London: Collins, 1939. First Edition. Bookplate; light foxing and cloth fading; very good plus in a very good dust jacket with some tears and chips, the most serious of which is a triangular fingernail-sized one at the top of the front panel. A highly politically incorrect title even when published; the dust jacket compounded the sin with its illustration of little black figures with big white lips. The book was published in America as And Then There Were None, and re-issued as Ten Little Indians, presenting problems of its own today. In any event, not only was this one of the author’s best books, it was also made into one of the best films based on her books, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. small 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth with black stamping to the spine, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket with some expert restoration to the spine (portion at lower end) and edges. Some thumbsoiling and dampstaining to binding, cloth of spine a bit sunned. Very slightly skewed. No marks or inscriptions. A handsome, very good copy. Controversial title only used in Great Britain (for Crime Club editions). In America, it was published as And Then There Were None and reissued as Ten Little Indians. An extremely scarce edition in dust jacket and one of Christie's most sought after titles. Agatha Christie's best-selling novel with over 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever and one of the best-selling books of all time. .

London: Collins / The Crime Club, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing, second state with no date listed on copyright page. Very Good with light lean to spine, a bit of dust soiling, fading to cloth corresponding to jacket chips, and bumping to page corners. In a Very Good dust jacket with front flap clipped at bottom corner and publisher's price of 4'- net printed left of the clip (assumed second issue); edge wear with chipping heavier at spine ends, rubbing to folds, faint pencil markings to front panel and fading to spine. A controversial title to say the least, published in America and filmed as And then There Were None. This book remains one of Christie's best-selling novels, as well as the world's best-selling mystery book and one of the best-selling books of all time. It is widely considered the author's masterpiece.

London: Collins, 1939. First Edition. Very good or better; in a good or slightly better price-clipped dust jacket with chips, tears, soiling and creasing. The unfortunately titled book was published in America as And Then There Were None, and re-issued as Ten Little Indians, which title is problematic itself these days. In any event, not only was this one of the author’s best books, it was also adapted into one of the best films based on her books, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald.

London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Printing 252 Pp + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. 1939 Copyright Indicated On Copyright Page, No Statement Of Printing. Orange Cloth, Black Lettering On Spine. A Very Good Example, Light Wear, Lettering Very Strong, Spine Cloth Slightly Sunned/Browned But Still Orange, Tiny Area Beginning To Fray At Top And Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge, Front Tips With Tiny Bumps,, Very Light And Small Foxing Spots To Endpapers And Preliminary Pages And Edges Of Page Block, As Is Often But Not Always The Case With This Edition. No Names Or Marks.

Hardback. Good.

Crime Club / Collins 1939. First edition, octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 252pp + ii pp adverts, VG (heavy fading to spine, slight bruising to spine extrems & lower board corners, some foxing, especially to prelims & page edges)

London: Penguin. Very Good. 1958. First Edition Thus. Paperback. A very nice bright, clean and tight copy. Spine a little darkened with age and use. Very light browing to edges. A very good copy of this first Penguin edition ; Cover design is the classic Jan Tschichold horizontal grid in green and white. Text to inside covers and Penguin new publications to endmatter. ; Mystery and Crime; Vol. 1256; 201[vi]pp pages .

Australia: The Crime Club 192 pp. Undated c.1939. Early paperback printed in Australia. Black cover with white figure shaped as a cross holding a knife and a green figure holding a gun. Rear cover has an advertisement for Kruschen Salts. Ink mark on rear cover. Cover worn and sunbrowned with a small piece missing from the lower edge of the front cover at the spine. Pages browned. . Paperback. Fair.

Collins/Fontana Books, 1972. Fourteenth impression. Paperback. Good. GC.Collins/Fontana Books,1972.Fourteenth impression.Small format pictorial paperback(small,nicks,creases and scratches on the cover and spine,small tear on the edges of the spine) in GC.Clean pages with small ink marks and tainted on the outer edges,small marks,creases and tainted on the edges of the pages.The book is in GC for its age but with some shelf wear.190pp.A collectable book.

JAPAN: HAYAKAWA PUBLISHING, INC.. F/F. 1976. Softcover. TEXT IN JAPANESE. - TRANSLATED BY SHUNJI SHIMIZU. ; 16mo ; 266 pages .

London: Samuel French Limited, 1944. Small octavo; Poor/no-DJ paperback; light blue spine with dark blue text; book is fragile, significantly stained and worn throughout; cover has foxing on back, back bottom has a two-inch tear along spine, front cover is significantly torn along spine and in danger of ripping off, previous owner's name is written in pencil on top right corner; textblock is intact, but binding is very weak, pencil underlining and notes throughout; pp 82; book contains program from a 1954 performance. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.

Fontana, 1975. 23rd Impression. vg. 1975 28th print Fontana 1977 edition paperback vg book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Fontana. PAPERBACK. B001ENJHA6 Crisp pages. Light shelf wear on cover. Tanning throughout. Dented corners. Sun fading. Good reading copy. . Good.

Edinburgh: Royal Lyceum Theatre, 1961 . theatre programme for the play starring Edward Petherbridge,12pp very good condition.

London, 1957. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 192pp, photos. Grubby cloth, sound. Front of dj pasted on cover.

HarperCollins Distribution Services. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities.

Paperback. Good.