A Pocket Full of Rye
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Crime Club by Collins, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to text block edges and free endpapers. Faint pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Boards have mild shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible sunning to spine and boards. Cloth is slightly discoloured. Minor crushing to spine ends with slight fraying. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. noticeable tanning and foxing overall. Rear flap is loose.
Synopsis
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 9, 1953 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1713360408ABS
- Title
- A Pocket Full of Rye
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Crime Club by Collins
- Date Published
- 1953
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Text Block
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- First Edition
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