"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
London: George Newnes, Ltd., January-June 1932. [Literature/ Crime Fiction] FIRST APPEARANCE. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.628. Illustrated throughout in sepia and colour. Original magazine parts bound in a half-yearly volume of light blue cloth pictorially blocked in black to front covers, gilt to spine. Contents clean, light spotting to endpapers, covers lightly worn, sgilt rubbed to spine. Near fine. SCARCE FIRST APPEARANCE of Christie's Hercule Poirot story 'The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest', with exclusive illustrations. This title was later collected in book-form, subject to amendments. Also contains 'Beauty Spots' by Rudyard Kipling, and 'The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper' by H.G. Wells; a strange tale 'without an explanation'. This volume also features several 'Sapper'/Bulldog Drummond adventures and some Wodehouse stories including a Mulliner caper. Item #72650
Price: £275.00
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