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UK: The Crime Club, Collins, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1961. A fine copy. Neat contemporary date inscription to ffep. No foxing or toning, contents unblemished throughout. In original fine dust jacket with no creasing, tears or fading. Not price clipped. An excellent copy.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. 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. A masterful 'strange tale' in which 'The Pale Horse' is the name of both the village pub and a secret organisation which kills by black magic. The successful crime writer Ariadne Oliver (an exaggerated version of Christie herself) is called in to unravel the mysterious happenings... This is the final case (and perhaps the best) for Mrs. Oliver, who first appears with Parker Pyne in two short stories, and in seven full-length novels (six of them with the great detective… Read More

CHRISTIE, AgathaThe Pale Horse. First edition published by Collins Crime Club in 1961.
Description Original boards, original dust jacket. PH is said to have saved at least two lives after the readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning described by Christie. This was already known from her working as a nurse years prior. The story books takes readers on the journey of a dying woman's final confession and murder of a priest. A near-fine (+) copy, the jacket is unclipped. Excepting only minor wear to jacket extremities and light touching up on its inside, this would indeed be a fine copy. End papers clean and bright.

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Collins, London., 1961. First edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with one tiny nick. An exemplary copy.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1961. First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1961. A beautiful near fine copy. The dust wrapper has been priced nor clipped. Some wear to the spine tips and corners - some light edgewear. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and the text blocks are bright and white, some light marks to the rear panel. No inscriptions within. Overall, this is a near fine copy.

Collins Crime Club. First UK edition published  by Collins Crime Club in 1961. This is a near fine copy. The wrapper and book are both in excellent condition. Both clean with minimal handling wear. No bumps or rubbing and no previous owners ink. There are no foxing marks. The wrapper has been price clipped. Overall a near fine copy. [Wagstaff & Poole p213]  . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1961.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 256pp. Beautiful First Edition, bound in red cloth with titles in black on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with gentle bumping to spine ends and tips. No interior toning or spotting though there is a faint sticker ghost on the front paste-down. Very attractive unfaded and unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, has a tiny closed edge-tear on the rear panel and a few rubs to edges. Still fresh and bright with no chipping or creases. The jacket is unpriced as it was one that would have been shipped to other countries in the British Empire that would have affixed a price sticker in its own currency. (This is likely the cause of the sticker ghost mentioned above. It is NOT a Book Club Edition. British BCE's are produced in a completely different manner than American BCE's but that is another topic. A quite sharp collectable copy at a great price.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1961. First edition, first printing. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper has some slight closed tearing at the corners and some very light shelf wear at the spine tips. It has not been price clipped. There is a short scuff mark mid-way down the backstrip. The boards are free from notable chips and marks through slightly bumped at the corners. This copy is free from inscriptions and is, overall, in very good (or better) condition.

The Crime Club Collins, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Orange boards fine, binding secure, Light spotting to page edges. No written additions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped , v ery small chip spine and top of dw spine. Smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Contents clean, edges a little toned, no inscriptions, bright jacket lightly worn with some gentle spotting to rear. Near fine. A masterful 'strange tale' in which 'The Pale Horse' is the name of both the village pub and a secret organisation which kills by black magic. The successful crime writer Ariadne Oliver (an exaggerated version of Christie herself) is called in to unravel the mysterious happenings... This is the final case (and perhaps the best) for Mrs. Oliver, who first appears with Parker Pyne in two short stories, and in seven full-length novels (six of them with the great detective Hercule Poirot).

London: Collins Crime Club, 1961. First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1961. A very good copy. The dust wrapper has been price clipped. Some wear to the spine tips and corners - some light edgewear. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and the text blocks are bright and white, some light marks to the rear panel. No inscriptions within. Overall, this is a very good copy.

London: The Crime Club, by Collins, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None . A very smart first edition of Agathe Christie's thrilling murder mystery, with a somewhat supernatural theme. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Christie's thrilling mystery follows the narrator Mark Easterbrook as he investigates a list of names and the death of a Catholic Priest. With a small appearance from Christie's novelist detective Ariadne Oliver.This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives, after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from the description in the book. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Bumped to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Dust wrapper rear wrap age toned, with significant spotting. Amateur restorations to dust wrapper back… Read More

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 15s. net, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 x 5 INCHES. SEVERAL CLOSED TEARS TO DUST JACKET WITH SOME MINOR CHIPPING AT EDGES OF JACKET, MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH BOARDS, RED CROSS HOSPITAL LIBRARY PLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD WITH A CANCELLED STAMP TO REAR BLANK ENDPAPER & NO OTHER STAMPS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.

Folio Society,, 2023. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 6 illustrations; pictorial boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt and silver, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the corner tips and spine ends, some light stains to the rear panel, closed tear to the lower rear panel. (30898). Octavo, boards. Mystery novel concerning a mysterious in, The Pale Horse. Ariadne Oliver makes an appearance in this book. Filmed as both a a made for television movie and television mini-series. Hubin, p. 164.

Crime Club Collins London. HBDJ, 1961, 1st edition,Orange Cloth lettered on spine in Black, PC, Minor Rub, Wear , tiny chips DJ & small mended Tear, Interior minor occasional Fox , Nice, Tight, Clean, Small Stain Back DJ, 256 p gs, VG-/VG-, A.

A fine first printing copy in a fine DJ but for a tiny tear at the bottom of the spine. Feels unread.

Dodd Mead, 1962. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Ed Thus. First American ed. Good/Good condition, moderate over all wear to book and dustjacket, top and bottom edges of dustjacket crinkled and with small chips..

London: Collins, 1961 near fine in same unclipped dust jacket, minor rubbing to tail edge of jacket spine, ghost of an erased pencil price at head of title, light bump to corners, lightly dust soiled top edge and minor spots to other closed edges, very tidy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London, UK: Collins, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first impression. 256pp. In red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. 12mo. Very gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, hint of short crease on backstrip. Text block edges show light toning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped. Lightly bumped at edges with a couple of small nicks, lightly scuffed around spine base where there's a circa 3cm crack along rear joint. Mild toning on verso. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.