Cards on the Table

Lot 35
28.09.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 35 | Cards on the Table
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Cards on the Table

Agatha Christie

CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). Cards on the Table. London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1936.



Presentation copy of the first edition in a very good dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher: ‘Carlo with love from Agatha Christie.’ Cards on the Table features four detectives, Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, and the crime writer, Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot story. Hubin, p. 79.



Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black (spine and edges of covers sunned, edges spotted); original dust-jacket supplied from another copy (light edge wear and creases, chipped at head of spine, top of folds with small loss from top right corner of upper panel, some other short tears, lower panel somewhat marked, price-clipped). Provenance: Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper and posthumous book label).

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