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CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS
by AGATHA CHRISTIE
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE INTACT AT 12s 6d. net, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 x 5 INCHES. SOME MINOR CHIPPING TO EDGES OF JACKET WITH MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, SOME MINOR CREASES TO EDGES OF JACKET, FAINT RING MARK TO CLOTH ON FRONT BOARD & TO TITLE PAGE, LIGHT FOXING TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Elder Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0064960-NL71
- Title
- CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS
- Author
- AGATHA CHRISTIE
- Format/Binding
- Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- THE CRIME CLUB BY COLLINS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel;
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Elder Books
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Ross on Wye, Herefordshire
About Elder Books
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- Jacket
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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