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
Miss Marple's 6 Final Cases. and two other stories.
London: Collins, 1979. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.138. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. No inscriptions, top edge a little dusty, jacket gently sunned to spine. Near fine. Six superb short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's favourite sleuth, never..... More
![Item #62340 Moord in de Pastorie. [Murder at the Vicarage]. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656172437)
Moord in de Pastorie. [Murder at the Vicarage].
Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1964. [Crime Mystery] DUTCH FILM TIE-IN. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.181 [4]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With the dust-jacket showing still of Margaret Rutherford playing Miss Marple, not priced. Heavily browned to low-quality paper. Light handling only, with the jacket showing some toning..... More
The Mousetrap and Other Plays.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. [Crime Mystery Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 714. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £15.99. A clean, fine copy. Eight gripping plays here published for the first time in a book-form edition. Includes..... More
The Mousetrap.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014. [Crime Drama] FACSIMILE EDITION, first thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 102 [10]. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper. With the black dust-jacket, not priced. Light wear to jacket, otherwise near fine. More
The Moving Finger.
London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1943. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.160. Elegantly hand-bound in black half calf, gilt titles, raised bands, matching buckram-covered sides, original cloth covers bound in at rear. Contents clean, exterior unmarked. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding..... More
Mrs McGinty's Dead.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper by Kenneth Farnhill priced at 9/6. Book is slightly dusty, no inscriptions. Jacket with a little wear to joints and extremities..... More
Mrs McGinty's Dead.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188 [4]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrative dust-jacket. Internally clean with no inscriptions, some rolling to spine, dust-jacket price-clipped, gentle spotting to rear panel, some spotting visible..... More
Mrs McGinty's Dead.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 9/6. Contents clean, some spotting to edges and endpapers, no inscriptions, jacket with a few small..... More
![Item #69863 The Murder at Hazelmoor. [The Sittaford Mystery]. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/69863.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727454490)
The Murder at Hazelmoor. [The Sittaford Mystery].
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. [Crime Fiction] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 308. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Tan and orange decorated endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. Contents clean, no inscriptions, top edge a little dusty, covers gently used with mile..... More
The Murder at the Vicarage.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 2011. [Crime Fiction] FACSIMILE EDITION, First thus (no later printings stated). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Publisher's red card, black titles to upper board and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, fine copy. The first book-length mystery for Christie's perennially popular spinster character..... More
![Item #70257 Murder For Christmas [Hercule Poirot's Christmas] in Collier's International Weekly....](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70257.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732814329)
Murder For Christmas [Hercule Poirot's Christmas] in Collier's International Weekly.
USA, November 1938 to January 1939. [Literary Magazine] First appearance. Ten magazine issues in their original colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 5c. Octavo (34 x 28cm). Illustrated throughout, some in colour. Each issue stapled twice. Very good copies with some expected wear to fragile covers, subscriber label to corner of..... More
![Item #70705 Murder In The Mews, and Other Stories. [4 Poirot Stories]. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70705.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736789250)
Murder In The Mews, and Other Stories. [4 Poirot Stories].
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. [Detective mysteries] FACSIMILE EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280 [8]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to the spine. With both the facsimile jacket priced at 7/6, and the additional wrap-around band priced at £12.99. Internally clean. Jackets show some light wear to edges..... More
A Murder Is Announced.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.246 [10]. Publisher's red paper over boards, with black titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Heavy toning to lower textblock edge, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. Guests expecting a party..... More
A Murder is Announced.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1950. [Detective mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges uniformly toned, bookstore stamp to free endpaper (The English Bookstore, Athens), covers..... More
Murder Is Easy.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1939. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. A moderately used copy with some toning/marking to edges of text block, jacket chipped to spine ends, rubbed to..... More
Murder Is Easy.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1949. [Detective Fiction] Vintage hardcover, fourth impression. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, some spotting to edges of text block and spine panel, gift inscription to front endpaper, some sunning to covers. Very..... More
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
London: William Collins, 2011. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION, First thus (no later printings stated). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.237; [3]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated facsimile dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Absolutely fine/as new. The definitive Christie mystery; widely regarded as one of the most influential crime..... More
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
London: W. Collins and Sons and Co. Ltd., 1926. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth, red lettered title and border, with titles in red to spine. Contents clean, edges toned with some spotting, top edge browned, neat ink ownership..... More
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
New York, NY: Grossett & Dunlap, 1927. [Crime Fiction] Early American edition, following the Dodd, Mead edition. Eighth printing overall. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 306 [4]. In publisher's grey cloth with titles blocked in black and orange to spine and upper board. Ink ownership to pastedown else a fine..... More
Murder on the Orient Express.
London: W. Collins & Son / The Crime Club / Harper Collins, 2011. [Detective novel] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.221; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to spine. A clean, fine copy showing trivial handling. A facsimile of..... More
Murder on the Orient Express.
London: Book Club Associates, [1934] 1974. [Crime Mystery] LEATHER-BOUND 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid green calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, with red morocco label. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather..... More
Murder on the Orient Express.
London: Published for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1934. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, fourth impression (same format as first). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], ads. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. A used copy with some reading marks within..... More
Murders to Die For. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; The Murder at the Vicarage; The Murder on the Links; Murder is Easy; Murder in Mesopotamia; Sleeping Murder; Murder on the Orient Express.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. [Crime Mystery Omnibus] FIRST THUS, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 1160. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and gold endpapers. With the dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. Light general wear. Near fine. More
The Mysterious Affair At Styles.
London: William Collins, 2011. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION, First thus (no later printings stated). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.193; [15], blank. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated facsimile dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A clean, fine copy. The definitive Christie mystery; widely regarded as one of the most..... More
The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
London: W.Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 1935. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, fifth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.286; [2], ads. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to spine. Edges spotted, no inscriptions, tear to final text leaf with loss (not affecting text), small chip to edge of preceding leaf, covers..... More