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AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL: Featuring Miss Marple
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Dodd Mead & Company, 1966. 1st U.S.edition. Quarter bound in red cloth with gilt and black lettering on the spine. Previous owner's name at front endpaper, age spots at page edges. Dust jacket is lightly soiled, small chip out at head of spine, closed tear at rear cover, , not price clipped, $4.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. This old-fashioned London hotel may not be quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's: traditional décor and impeccable service. But she senses an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric hotel guest makes his way to the airport one day late!. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good. Book.
Synopsis
At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 15, 1965 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features the detective Miss Marple.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020963
- Title
- AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL: Featuring Miss Marple
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, London, Women Detectives,
- Bookseller catalogs
- LONDON;
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
Biblio member since 2004
Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
In business since 1978 specializing in Mystery, Detective Fiction both in hardcover and collectible paperbacks.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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