Christie (Agatha) Lord Edgware Dies, first edition, 4pp. advertisements, foxing, original cloth, patches of fading to spine, light discolouration to upper cover, dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 on spine, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, affecting imprint at foot of spine, short closed tear to head of upper panel, a few very short nicks and tears to head and foot with some creasing, light surface soiling to lower panel, but overall a good, unsophisticated copy of a rare jacket, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1933.

⁂ Only two copies in the dust-jacket traced at auction in the last 40 years. A good, early Poirot title with a photo-portrait of the actor Charles Laughton as Poirot on the lower panel taken from a stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.