Agatha Christie, First Edition (Over 2,500 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. First English Edition. London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1861. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First English Edition. Bright red cloth binding with titling in black on the spine. Clean text; 256 pages, very bright and fresh. Light fade to th spine and a few spots to the page-ends. No dustwrapper; in an archial plastic protector. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Blue Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Good. Folding Maps (illustrator). First UK Edition. Vii, (I), 318 Pp. Blue Cloth. 1897 Date On Title Page. Dark Blue Endpapers. Bookplate Of E A Belcher, Major And Civil Servant, "En Dieu Est Tout". Color Even, Gilt Brilliant, But Bumping To Edges, And Waviness To Cloth And Endpapers (Water Damage). Christie's Dedication In Her 1924 Novel "The Mystery Of The Mill House" Reads "To E.A.B. In Memory Of A Journey, Some Lion Stories And A Request That I Should Some Day Write The Mystery Of The Mill House". As Noted In Wikipedia,"The Book Has Some Parallels To Incidents And Settings Of A Round-The-World Work Trip Taken By Christie With Her First Husband Archie Christie And Headed By His Old Teacher From Clifton College, Major E. A. Belcher, To Promote The Forthcoming 1924 British Empire Exhibition. The Tour Lasted From January 20 To December 1, 1922 (It Was On The Tour That Christie Wrote The Short Stories Which Would Form All Of Poirot Investigates (1924) And Most Of The Contents Of Poirot's Early Cases (Published In 1974). Dining With Belcher Before The Trip, He Had Suggested Setting A Mystery Novel In His Home, The Mill House At Dorney, Naming The Book The Mystery Of The Mill House And Insisted On Being In It As Well. He Is The Inspiration For The Central Character Sir Eustace Pedler, Having Been Given A Title At Archie's Suggestion, And The Mill House Also Makes An Appearance, Albeit Transposed To Marlow. Christie Found Belcher "Childish, Mean And Somehow Addictive As A Personality: 'Never, To This Day, Have I Been Able To Rid Myself Of A Sneaking Fondness For Sir Eustace,' Wrote Agatha Of The Fictionalised Belcher, Whom She Put Into The Man In The Brown Suit. 'I Dare Say It's Reprehensible, But There It Is.'" Following Completion In Late 1923. The Man In The Brown Suit Was First Serialised In The London Evening News Under The Title Anne The Adventurous. It Ran In Fifty Instalments From Thursday, November 29, 1923 To Monday, January 28, 1924. There Were Slight Amendments To The Text, Either To Make Sense Of The Openings Of An Instalment (E.G. Changing "She Then." To "Anne Then."), Or Omitting Small Sentences Or Words. The Main Change Was In The Chapter Division. The Published Book Has Thirty-Six Chapters Whereas The Serialisation Has Only Twenty-Eight. In Her 1977 Autobiography Christie Makes A Slight Mistake With The Name Of The Serialisation And Refers To It As Anna The Adventuress (Possibly Confusing It With The 1904 Book Of The Same Name By E. Phillips Oppenheim). Irrespective Of This Mistake, The Change From Her Preferred Title Was Not Of Her Choosing And The Newspaper's Choice Was One That She Considered To Be "As Silly A Title As I Have Ever Heard". She Raised No Objections However As The Evening News Were Paying Her £500 (£21,141 In Current Terms) For The Serial Rights Which She And Her Family Considered An Enormous Sum.[ At Archie's Suggestion, She Used The Money To Purchase A Grey, Bottle-Nosed Morris Cowley. She Later Stated That Acquiring Her Own Car Ranked With Dining At Buckingham Palace As One Of The Two Most Exciting Incidents In Her Life.

No Binding. Condition: New. 1st Edition. High Quality Repro (facsimile) dust jackets (does not include book) made to order from scans of rare originals. Can be re-sized to fit your book at no extra charge. Retaining wear and tear for a super-realistic look. Six-colour printing for superior results. Matte 120gsm photographic paper for authentic look and feel. Removable mylar-fronted archival sleeves for protection. Protect and Enhance Your Books. Accurate reference for restoration. Customers include The British Library, Hamish Hamilton, The Book & Magazine Collector, and Prion Books for Michael Haining's 'The Classic Era of Crime Fiction'.

First Canadian edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK and first to feature Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Issued from sheets of the true first edition (NY; John Lane, 1920) and preceding the London edition (Bodley Head, 1921). We record only one other copy offered for sale and are able to locate only one copy in libraries. Recased with new endpapers added, lettering touched up and cloth coated. Spine a little tanned otherwise near fine. Housed in matching clamshell case lined in silk. Rare. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF POIROT.

First Edition. THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, John Lane, New York, 1920, first edition, several leaves with some smallish light brown stains, else a fine copy rebound in full tan calf with very nice text block and with gold gilt stamping to the spine and front cover matching the original binding design. The authors first novel introducing Hercule Poirot and quite scarce in the true first edition as is here.

First Edition. First UK Edition. REVIEW OF THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES by AGATHA CHRISTIE. A softcover magazine (not issued with a dustwrapper). In the News Notes section is a positive review of "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie (the first novel of Mrs Agatha Christie) recently published by John Lane at 7/6 and illustrated with a photograph of Christie with child. The novel is described as "The most ingenious and absorbingly interesting tale of sensation and mystery we have read for a long time. Mrs Christie knows all the tricks and does them with the cunningest skill". The review goes on to mention that "she is at present engaged on a thriller (The Secret Adversary) of the most pronounced type dealing with the adventures of a boy and girl who are seeking a job and find themselves involved in mysterious and exciting happenings; and she has finished a series of detective stories containing some of the cases solved by Hercule Poirot, the quaint little Belgium detective who figures so prominently in the Styles Affair". The magazine includes, inter alia, further articles on 'Sir Edward Elgar' by George Sampson, 'Posthumous Poems of John Payne' by S M Ellis and 'The Future of the Theatre' by St. John Ervine. The magazine has various sections: NEWS NOTES (including an excellent review of 'She and Allan' by Sir H Rider Haggard), THE BOOKMAN GALLERY, THE READER, NEW BOOKS, NOVEL NOTES, THE BOOKMAN'S TABLE, MUSIC, THE DRAMA & ADVERTISEMENTS. A great and important magazine with likely interest to all Christie collectors. Photographs/scans available upon request.

No Binding. Condition: New. 1st Edition. High Quality Repro (facsimile) dust jackets (does not include book) made to order from scans of rare originals. Can be re-sized to fit your book at no extra charge. Retaining wear and tear for a super-realistic look. Six-colour printing for superior results. Matte 120gsm photographic paper for authentic look and feel. Removable mylar-fronted archival sleeves for protection. Protect and Enhance Your Books. Accurate reference for restoration. Customers include The British Library, Hamish Hamilton, The Book & Magazine Collector, and Prion Books for Michael Haining's 'The Classic Era of Crime Fiction'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very rare first US printing of Agatha Christie's second published book from 1922. Octavo (19cm x 14cm x 3.5cm), mid-brown cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. 330 pages. Generally very good condition, with occasional spotting to the light and evenly tanned pages. Of note are some small page defects. These are: p. 84 - tiny closed nick p. 185/86 - small bottom inner left corner 1cm missing. p. 189/90 - small 1cm top right page corner piece missing p. 191/192 - small 1cm piece missing from centre bottom edge p. 193/94 - 5cm x 0.5 piece missing from top right of page p. 307/08 & p. 309/10 - 1cm piece missing from top right corner p. 313/14, p. 315/16. p. 317/18, p. 319/20 & p. 321/22 - 0.5 - 1cm piece missing from top right corner of page. p. 321 - small nibble to paper defect in middle of bottom edge, centre Whilst these defects may sound bad, they can easily be repaired by a skilled paper archivist - work that will conserve this highly collectable book. The binding is tight and firm. There is some light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Presents well in a new glassine cover.

[Mystery novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.312 [4], advertisements. Elegantly bound in dark green full oasis morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers. Internally clean, spine very lightly aged. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding, circa 1990s. The author's scarce second novel, being the first adventure for her popular series characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Wagstaff and Poole; A Christie Bibliography. See also Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction. HUBIN; Crime Fiction IV.

No Binding. Condition: New. 1st Edition. High Quality Repro (facsimile) dust jackets (does not include book) made to order from scans of rare originals. Can be re-sized to fit your book at no extra charge. Retaining wear and tear for a super-realistic look. Six-colour printing for superior results. Matte 120gsm photographic paper for authentic look and feel. Removable mylar-fronted archival sleeves for protection. Protect and Enhance Your Books. Accurate reference for restoration. Customers include The British Library, Hamish Hamilton, The Book & Magazine Collector, and Prion Books for Michael Haining's 'The Classic Era of Crime Fiction'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First US edition 1923. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Black mark to lower portion of spine. Endpapers have been neatly reinforced with sellotape. Ink inscriptions on frt. pastedown and f.e.p. Pr evious owner's bookplate on f.e.p. Else good in original green cloth with title in orange. Very scarce. Product Information The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923 and, in the same year, in the UK by The Bodley Head in May. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development "greatly desired on Agatha's part. parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine." Reviews when it was published compared Mrs Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Remarking on Poirot, still a new character, one reviewer said he was "a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors; and one even suspects a touch of satire in him (Wikipedia).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. first printing of the true first edition, published several weeks before the UK edition. Octavo, 298 pages. Publisher's green cloth, printed in orange, cream end papeers. Wear at spine ends, front inner hinge visible; owner name and date on ffep. Internally clean and bright. No dust jacket.

[Crime thriller] FIRST CHEAP EDITION, later classed as the 'Popular edition'. Fourth printing overall. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.296. Publisher's green cloth blocked in darker green to spine and upper board. No inscriptions, edges of text block gently toned, 'Times Book Club' ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth is particularly fresh with some minor rubbing to spine lettering. A fine copy of a cheaply-produced book. Christie's first novel, introducing the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Facsimile. 1st Edition. A very nice copy of this early and collectible Christie novel of over 100 years in age. 319 + 8 aged pages with no inscriptions, loss or tears. Very slight foxing. Dated as second edition1923 on the copyright page. Published in the same month as the first edition using the same text block.Stitching starting between ffep and half title page. Outer brown boards has what looks like some ink stains on the front board only.Art deco design. Slightly faded and creased spine.Scuff to bottom of spine. Included is a precise first edition facsimile dust wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first cheap edition of Agatha Christie's first Poirot novel, a brilliant tale introducing the beloved Belgian detective. The first cheap edition, published two years after the first U.K. publication.'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' is the first of Agatha Christie's novels to feature her Belgian detective - Hercule Poirot. Since his first appearance in 1920, Poirot has gone on to become one of the famous characters in fiction.With the image of a fragment of the will to page 67, a map of the house to page 42, a plan of Mrs Inglethorp's Bedroom to page 60, A facsimile of a document to page 83.This novel marks the start of an illustrious crime fiction career for Agatha Christie, who was one of the leading authors during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She became an icon in this genre, with sixty-six novels under her belt.In a facsimile dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the cloth. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5.25", dark green cloth with orange title, 298pp, cover rubbed with some waterstaining to front cover, spine with vertical creasing, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a bit cocked, endpaper toned, some very light waterstaining to upper and lower margins, textblock edges soiled, old bookseller label on front fly, former owner's ink name on front fly. FIRST EDITION (precedes the UK edition).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, first printing; precedes the British first edition. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in orange; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding, fading to spine and soiling to cloth; stain to front board and discoloration to rear. Extremities worn. Front and rear inner hinge slightly exposed. Contents toned and with trivial foxing, former owner's notation in fountain pen on the front pastedown. Christie's third book and the second book in the popular Detective Poirot series featuring his sidekick Captain Arthur Hastings. The Belgian detectives are called to solve a murder that occurred on a French golf course. Later adapted into the BBC television series starring David Suchet as Poirot.

Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's olive green cloth lettered in orange; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good+ with light softening to spine ends and slight darkening to spine, light wear and soiling. Former owner name, bookplate and bookseller ticket to front endsheet. Paged tanned and with light foxing to preliminary and terminal sheets. Christie's third book and the second book in the popular Detective Poirot series featuring his sidekick Captain Arthur Hastings. The Belgian detectives are called to solve a murder that occurred on a French golf course. Later adapted into the BBC television series starring David Suchet as Poirot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A lovely copy of the true first edition one of the rarest Agatha Christie crime novels. The Murder on The Links was published in America in March 1923, preceding the Collins British first edition by two months. Octavo, measures 19cm x 14 cm x 3.3cm. Dark olive green cloth with orange lettering to front board and spine. Publisher's name in gilt to base of spine. Blind stamped borders to front board. Minuscule bumps to top and bottom right corners of front board. Neat ink name and date (1926)to front pastedown. A little light foxing to half title and title page. 298 pages, generally very clean indeed. Tight, firm text block. Minimal rubbing to spine. Presented in new mylar. Although lacking its exceptionally rare dustwrapper, this is in Very Good Plus condition. A highly collectable classic early Christie and a fast appreciating asset.

First UK edition, first printing. Bound in full green crushed morocco by Baker Bindery, Alabama (for Asprey). Five raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and titles in gilt to the spine. Upper and lower boards ruled in gilt. Inner dentelles double ruled and with corner pieces in gilt. Green patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. The publisher's original orange cloth bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents spotlessly clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Agatha Christie's third novel and by a small margin her scarcest in the British first edition. Featuring Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. (Hubin) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

hardcover. Condition: very good. first. First edition, with "First Published in 1923" stated on copyright page. Book in very good condition, spine repaired, new end papers. Comes in supplied slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. HARDBACK - A very good book with orange boards that is a little faded to the spine. Light soiling to the rear panel. Internally, the pages are generally clean with the odd sporadic finger mark found to the inner text. The books front and rear hinges have at some time been strengthened, with no splitting to the books hinges. No previous owner names or insriptions are present, with the book solidly bound, no signs of spine lean or rolling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie First Edition The Bodley Head 1923. No previous owner's marks or inscriptions and no foxing or toning to contents or (uncut) edges. Covers are bright and without fraying, rubbing or toning. No darkening whatsoever to spine. A bright VG+ copy. Further images on request. In Agatha Christie's The Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot investigates the brutal killing of wealthy businessman Paul Renauld, found stabbed on a golf course near his French villa. Summoned by Renauld's urgent plea, Poirot arrives with Captain Hastings to find a tangled web of deception involving a mysterious woman, a doppelgänger, and a past crime. Pitted against a pompous French detective, Poirot's razor-sharp intellect unravels clues amidst romantic entanglements and family secrets. Christie's intricate plotting and deft misdirection create a suspenseful whodunit, showcasing Poirot's brilliance in a vibrant tale of betrayal and retribution.

First American Edition. octavo, 275 pages; variant yellow cloth binding, printed in brown letters. A near fine copy, internally clean and bright. Owner name and date of Jan. 2, 1927 on ffep. Author's 4th novel, with 3 other titles listed on page facing the title page. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK Edition stated on verso of title page ' First Published in 1924' with half title, title page and dedication page followed by 310 numbered pages plus 2-page publishers advert at the back. Grey cloth with brown stamped border and title on front and on spine. Some light wear to corners and edges. M.G. written in top corner of front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing with exposed netting, rear endpapers yellowed and stained also with netting exposed making the boards loose but still firmly attached. Apart from the odd blemish pages are clean and tightly bound. Over all a Good Copy of this scarce UK First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A near fine copy of the first US edition of Agatha Christie's fourth crime novel. Octavo, measures 19.5cm x 14cm x 4cm. Mid-brown cloth with dark brown lettering to front board and spine (slight fading to spine lettering); blind-stamped device to front board and stamped bordering. 275 pages, all clean and free from marks. Tight binding and text block. A very nice example and quite scarce in this condition.

Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in dark brown, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding, fading to spine, soiling, and wear at extremities. Browning to endsheets with small chip to top edge of the half title page. Contents toned and lightly foxed, rear inner hinge is exposed and tender. Christie's eleventh mystery thriller which introduces the character Colonel Race. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. publisher's brown cloth, corners slightly bumped, no markings, first American edition, author's fourth book with the other three titles listed, comes with a facsimile jacket of the 1931 Dodd Mead edition which is identical aside from perhaps the price.

[Mystery novel] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.275; [5]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth binding lettered in dark brown, blind-stamped device to upper, fore-edge untrimmed. No inscriptions, contents clean, rear paper joint starting, covers gently rubbed at extremities. Near fine. The fourth of Christie's sixty-six original crime novels, and the first to feature the secret service agent Johnny Race. "A well-paced thriller. which aficionados consider one of her best" [Wagstaff and Poole, p.30].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing of Christie's fourth novel and the first to introduce secret service agent Colonel Johnny Race. Lacking the rare original dust jacket, but married to a strikingly nice dust jacket from the 1931 American printing. Housed in a custom wooden slipcase. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Publisher's original tan cloth, lettered in dark brown; pp. (viii), 275, [5]. An about near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, minor rubbing to boards with a touch of thumb soiling. Internally quite clean and fine with just a hint of offsetting to endpapers. Jacket remains bright and vibrant with the slightest traces of shelfwear. A very presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.