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CHRISTIE, Agatha (1891-1976). Peril at End House. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. for the Crime Club, 1932.
8° (184 x 125mm). Printed membership card for the Crime Club laid-in. (Some light spotting.) Original orange cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, original illustrated dust-jacket (cloth faded at the spine and edges, jacket expertly restored at spine ends and flaps, some soiling).
FIRST U.K. EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET of this early Hercule Poirot novel. It also features Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp; untoward events take place in 'End House', a Cornish Riviera hotel. According to the dust-jacket, Poirot 'relentlessly unravels a murder mystery that must rank as one of the most brilliant he has yet written'.
8° (184 x 125mm). Printed membership card for the Crime Club laid-in. (Some light spotting.) Original orange cloth, spine and upper side lettered in black, original illustrated dust-jacket (cloth faded at the spine and edges, jacket expertly restored at spine ends and flaps, some soiling).
FIRST U.K. EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET of this early Hercule Poirot novel. It also features Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp; untoward events take place in 'End House', a Cornish Riviera hotel. According to the dust-jacket, Poirot 'relentlessly unravels a murder mystery that must rank as one of the most brilliant he has yet written'.
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