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Agatha Christie
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The Thirteen Problems
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). The Thirteen Problems. London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932.
The first appearance of Miss Marple in book form: a superb copy of the first edition in the exceptionally rare dust-jacket and wrap-around band. We have been unable to trace any first edition in a dust-jacket sold at auction. One of Christie’s best-known characters, Miss Marple had first appeared in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, 'The Tuesday Night Club' which became the first chapter of the present work. The Thirteen Problems is the author's fourth collection of short stories. Also included with this book is an unused purple-printed and edged green Crime Club membership enrolment postcard, and a typed letter on 'Sunday Referee' letterhead from the newspaper’s editor, offering 'his heartiest congratulations on your success in the Cross-word Competition'. Hubin, p. 80; Wagstaff & Poole, pp. 80-81 ('very hard to find').
Octavo. 6 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original orange cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black (spine very slightly skewed, extremities very slightly bumped, slight spotting to edges); original green pictorial dust-jacket priced '7/6 net' on the spine, lettered and stamped in black with silhouette of three masked gunmen – the Crime Club logo – repeated across the panels, with purple and green pictorial Crime Club wrap-around band (spine and joints of jacket slightly faded above band, a few creases and tiny nicks to extremities, band spine faded).
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). The Thirteen Problems. London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932.
The first appearance of Miss Marple in book form: a superb copy of the first edition in the exceptionally rare dust-jacket and wrap-around band. We have been unable to trace any first edition in a dust-jacket sold at auction. One of Christie’s best-known characters, Miss Marple had first appeared in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, 'The Tuesday Night Club' which became the first chapter of the present work. The Thirteen Problems is the author's fourth collection of short stories. Also included with this book is an unused purple-printed and edged green Crime Club membership enrolment postcard, and a typed letter on 'Sunday Referee' letterhead from the newspaper’s editor, offering 'his heartiest congratulations on your success in the Cross-word Competition'. Hubin, p. 80; Wagstaff & Poole, pp. 80-81 ('very hard to find').
Octavo. 6 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original orange cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black (spine very slightly skewed, extremities very slightly bumped, slight spotting to edges); original green pictorial dust-jacket priced '7/6 net' on the spine, lettered and stamped in black with silhouette of three masked gunmen – the Crime Club logo – repeated across the panels, with purple and green pictorial Crime Club wrap-around band (spine and joints of jacket slightly faded above band, a few creases and tiny nicks to extremities, band spine faded).
