Lot 98
Christie (Agatha) Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936
Hammer Price: £9,000
Description
Christie (Agatha) Cards on the Table, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original orange cloth lettered in black, slight sunning to spine tips, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, spine ends and corners chipped affecting first word of title at head of spine and publisher's imprint at foot, few short nicks and tears to head and foot of panels with light creasing, a very good copy overall, [Cooper & Pike pp.82-9], 8vo, The Crime Club, 1936.
⁂ Features the first appearance of Ariadne Oliver in a Poirot novel. One of the classic Hercule Poirot mysteries, the novel revolves around a dinner party hosted by the enigmatic Mr. Shaitana, who boasts of collecting people who have "gotten away with murder."
Description
Christie (Agatha) Cards on the Table, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original orange cloth lettered in black, slight sunning to spine tips, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, spine ends and corners chipped affecting first word of title at head of spine and publisher's imprint at foot, few short nicks and tears to head and foot of panels with light creasing, a very good copy overall, [Cooper & Pike pp.82-9], 8vo, The Crime Club, 1936.
⁂ Features the first appearance of Ariadne Oliver in a Poirot novel. One of the classic Hercule Poirot mysteries, the novel revolves around a dinner party hosted by the enigmatic Mr. Shaitana, who boasts of collecting people who have "gotten away with murder."
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