"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: Collins, 1979. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.138; [2].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. Six superb short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's favourite sleuth, never before published in the UK in book-form. Item #60803
Price: £275.00