Cat Among the Pigeons
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Manchester , Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
- First edition, first published 1959, hardcover, Collins, 'Crime Club Choice' nom.
- Original red boards and original dust jacket.
- A bright and clean copy in near fine condition throughout. With only minor shelf wear to extremities and minor jacket repairs to its inside. Excepting these would make for fine copy. End papers bright and clean.
CATP features Agatha's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. He features in the third part of the novel. The book has some wear to the dust jacket on the spine, it has no inscriptions.
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Synopsis
Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 2, 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6), and the US edition at $2.95. It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel.
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- Bookseller
- Canon & Rare Booksellers (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHR-0116
- Title
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- no inscriptions
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