"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

London: Collins Crime Club, 1976. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Internally clean and bright. A fine copy in a handsome leather binding. The fifteenth and final Jane Marple novel finds the Queen of Sleuths attempting to solve a murder for a distraught companion. But was the murder real, or all in her friend's mind? Item #60802
Price: £275.00