Parker Pyne Investigates.

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: Collins, 1934. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248; [6 of advertisements]. 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, cloth bound in at rear lightly worn with the titles rather dulled. A fine copy in a handsome leather binding. A collection of twelve stories featuring Parker Pyne, consulting detective; curiously the eleventh episode is entitled "Death on the Nile", which should not to be confused with the famous Poirot novel published two years later. Item #60907

Price: £675.00