Books & Manuscripts

<p>Finely bound first-edition copy of Christie's tenth crime book and her second original collection of stories, which includes an appearance by Christie's husband and wife team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.</p><ul><li>Agatha Christie (English).</li><li>London: Collins, 1929.</li><li>pp. 252; [4], advertisements.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in full green crushed morocco by the Baker Bindery, with raised bands to gilt-paneled spine, green patterned paste-paper end leaves, generous turn-ins with gilt "mustache" and "knitting" corner-piece decorations to front, and "dagger" and "pistol" motifs to rear, all edges gilt.</li></ul>