"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1936. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.284; [4], advertisements. Elegantly bound in full green crushed morocco by the Baker Bindery, with raised bands to gilt-panelled spine, green patterned paste-paper endleaves, generous turn-ins with gilt 'moustache' and 'knitting' corner-piece decorations, and all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. An especially clean fine copy, inside and out. One of Hercule Poirot's most famous cases in which he must solve a murder on an archaeological expedition. Item #61119
Wagstaff and Poole, p.118. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction.
Price: £695.00