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Agatha Christie | First Editions
1890 - 1976
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott; however, Christie is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigative work of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Ariadne Oliver, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery entitled The Mousetrap. In 1971, she was made a Dame for her immense contribution to literature.
Christie was initially unsuccessful in getting her work published, but in 1920 The Bodley Head press published her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring the character of Hercule Poirot. This launched her literary career. Today, the Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies worldwide, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books (behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible). Christie remains the world's most-translated individual author – having been translated into at least 103 languages. And Then There Were None is Christie's best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever. Nearly all of Christie's books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.
See below our stock of Agatha Christie First Editions, fine bindings, sets, and signed copies.
Agatha Christie
After the Funeral / Murder at the Gallop (First Edition hardback and Press book for the film).
London: The Crime Club by Collins, M.G.M. 1953, 1963. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beytagh, priced at 10/6. Together with 'Murder at the Gallop' Press Book for the 1963 film adaptation, pp.8, illustrated..... More
After the Funeral.
London: Collins for the Crime Club, [1953]. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.192. Family tree on page 4. Bound in black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and burgundy cloth over boards. Internally clean, exterior unmarked. Presented in an attractive recent..... More
After the Funeral.
London: Collins for the Crime Club, [1953]. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.192. Family tree on page 4. Hand-bound in green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and contrasting black cloth-covered sides. Internally clean, exterior unmarked. Presented in an attractive recent..... More
The Agatha Christie Book Collection. Harper Collins' COMPLETE facsimile series: The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Secret Adversary; The Murder on the Links; The Man in the Brown Suit; The Secret of Chimneys; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; The Big Four; The Mystery of The Blue Train; The Seven Dials Mystery; Murder at The Vicarage; The Sittaford Mystery; Peril at End House; Lord Edgware Dies; Murder on the Orient Express; Why Didn't They Ask Evans?; Three Act Tragedy; Death in the Clouds; The A.B.C. Murders; Murder in Mesopotamia; Cards on the Table; Dumb Witness; Death on the Nile; Appointment with Death; Hercule Poirot's Christmas; Murder Is Easy; And Then There Were None; Sad Cypress; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; Evil Under the Sun; N or M?; The Body in the Library; Five Little Pigs; The Moving Finger; Towards Zero; Death Comes as the End; Sparkling Cyanide; The Hollow; Taken at the Flood; Crooked House; A Murder Is Announced; They Came to Baghdad; Mrs McGinty's Dead; They Do It with Mirrors; After the Funeral; A Pocketful of Rye; Destination Unknown; Hickory Dickory Dock; Dead Man's Folly; 4.50 From Paddington; Ordeal by Innocence; Cat Among the Pigeons; The Pale Horse; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side; The Clocks; A Caribbean Mystery; At Bertram's Hotel; Third Girl; Endless Night; By the Pricking of My Thumbs; Hallowe'en Party; Passenger to Frankfurt; Nemesis; Elephants Can Remember; Postern of Fate; Curtain; Sleeping Murder; Poirot Investigates; Partners in Crime; The Mysterious Mr Quin; The Thirteen Problems; The Hound of Death; The Listerdale Mystery; Parker Pyne Investigates; Murder in the Mews; The Labours of Hercules; The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding; Poirot's Early Cases; Miss Marple's Final Cases; Problem at Pollensa Bay; While the Light Lasts; Witness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays; Appointment with Death and Other Plays; The Mousetrap; An Autobiography, Parts I and II.
London: Agatha Christie Limited / Harper Collins, 2011-2016. [Mystery / Crime] COMPLETE SET IN 85 VOLUMES, all firsts thus. Each volume states "this novel forms part of an issue of The Agatha Christie Book Collection partwork... not to be sold separately". Octavo (19 x 13). Publisher's red hardcovers blocked in..... More
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Pale Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972. [Mystery / Crime] LEATHER BOUND SET. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Handsomely bound in black half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and navy cloth over boards. A few minor spots to volume containing 'Lord Edgware..... More
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Pale Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972. [Mystery / Crime] LEATHER BOUND SET. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Handsomely bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands ruled in gilt, twin black title labels lettered in gilt, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed..... More
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Pale Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972. [Mystery / Crime] COMPLETE SET AS PUBLISHED. In 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spines, and further gilt and red decoration to uppers. Top edges and endpapers orange. All volumes with the original photographic..... More
The Agatha Christie Hour. The Fourth Man; The Case of the Discontented Soldier; The Red Signal; The Girl in the Train; Magnolia Blossom; Jane in Search of a Job; In a Glass Darkly; The Case of the Middle-aged Wife; The Mystery of the Blue Jar; The Manhood of Edward Robinson.
London: Collins, 1982. [Short Stories] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Recently re-bound in black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. With the original pink dust-jacket bound in at rear, including flaps. A crisp..... More
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Appointment with Death. [Hercule Poirot].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1938. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252 [10]. Publisher's bright orange cloth, lettered to the back-strip in black. Contents and edge clean and fresh, neat ink name to endpaper, covers are bright and fresh but for sunned..... More
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Appointment with Death. [Hercule Poirot].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1938. [Crime fiction] EXQUISITE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252 [10]. Finely bound by Conway in full native red morocco lettered in a sans serif typeface in black to the spine, in the style of the original Collins binding. With..... More
The Big Four.
London: W. Collins and Sons, 1927. [Crime] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.v, 281; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in red to spine and upper. Contents thumbed, some toning and spotting within, tea stain to p.2, pencil ownership and ink scribble to pastedown, binding is rubbed and..... More
The Big Four.
London: W. Collins and Sons, 1927. [Crime] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.v, 281; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in red to spine and upper. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Thick, fluffy paper with some light foxing, covers gently handled with some mild rubbing to joints and extremities..... More
The Big Four.
London: W. Collins and Sons, 1927. [Crime] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.v; 281 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in red to spine and upper. Thick, fluffy paper with some light foxing, edges of text block toned, ink name inside cover, cloth is moderately handled with some..... More
The Body In The Library.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1942. [Murder Mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Minor reading marks within else contents clean, edges toned, no ink inscriptions, paper joints intact, thumb marks to covers, spine sunned. Paired with a...... More
The Body in The Library.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1942. [Murder Mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth in the striking Stead-designed dust jacket, which displays the title highlighted in book spines arranged on three of the library shelves, unpriced for export. This is the correct British..... More
By The Pricking Of My Thumbs.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1968. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges fresh, jacket lightly rubbed to spine, price clipped. The fourth..... More
Cards on the Table (Facsimile edition with decorative sash). A Poirot Story.
London: BCA, 2006. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION, reprinted. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6, and the wraparound band advertising other Hercule Poirot facsimile editions, priced at £10. Trivial handling; fine. A facsimile of the..... More
Cards on the Table.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1936. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to spine. Contents clean, a couple of brown marks to fore-edge, neat owner name to endpaper, cloth rubbed to spine which is..... More
Cards on the Table.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1939. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, fifth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.286 [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth lettered in black to spine. With the green and yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. Light spotting to edges, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Bright..... More
Cards on the Table.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1936. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to spine. Contents and edges clean, no ink names, cloth sunned to spine and extremities. Often acclaimed as one of Christie's most..... More
Cards on the Table. A Poirot Story.
London: BCA, 2006. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A fine, as-new copy. A facsimile of the original 1936 edition of this classic Poirot case. not to be confused with..... More
A Caribbean Mystery.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1964. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red and patterned black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. No inscriptions, some light spotting to edges of text block. Price clipped jacket is particularly bright and fresh, with..... More
A Caribbean Mystery.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1964. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red and patterned black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 16s. No inscriptions, some light spotting to edges of text block and to jacket, no chips or..... More
A Caribbean Mystery.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1964. [Detective novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly hand bound in red oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, sewn endbands. Contents clean, edges lightly spotted, exterior as new. An excellent copy..... More
Cat Among the Pigeons.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1] blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6. No inscriptions, jacket with minor toning to edges, a few tiny nicks and one neat (stabilised)..... More