Three Act Tragedy
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Novel. (London: Published for The Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons and Co.: 1935) First Edition. Binder's cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 252 and 4 publisher's advertisements. First Edition. A rebound private lending library copy (Acme Book Exchange Library 57 Hanson Street, Adelaide) with stamps on the front fixed endpaper and in the margins of the first and final pages of text, and the annotation '1-23-8' at head of rear fixed endpaper. The varnished cloth is faded and rubbed and scratched; light staining to the edges; lacks the final two leaves, presumably a rear fly leaf and the rear free endpaper; the text is good and clean; offered as a good serviceable reading or study copy.
Synopsis
Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title of Murder in Three Acts and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Hercule Poirot and Mr. Satterthwaite. This is the one book in which Satterthwaite collaborates with Poirot.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 175059
- Title
- Three Act Tragedy
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- crime fiction
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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