ID 1016417
Lot 37 | Dumb Witness
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
Agatha Christie
CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). Dumb Witness. London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1937.
Presentation copy of the first edition in the very rare dust-jacket, inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte ‘Carlo’ Fisher: ‘Carlo with love from Missus & Peter’. Agatha Christie was known to Charlotte as ‘Missus’, and Peter was Christie’s wirehaired terrier which she had bought in 1924. A note on the dust-jacket reads ‘Agatha Christie’s own dog, Peter, to whom this book is dedicated, posed for photograph on the jacket, but disclaims any connection with the events of the tale.’ The printed dedication in the book reads ‘To Dear Peter, most faithful of friends and dearest of companions, a dog in a thousand’. Hubin, p. 79.
Octavo. 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end (a little light scattered spotting in final gathering). Original orange cloth (spine and edges of covers slightly sunned, slight scratch to upper cover); original pictorial dust-jacket supplied from another copy (somewhat worn with tears and some loss, lower panel somewhat dust-stained, price-clipped, the jacket has been trimmed a little shorter than the book). 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).
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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Auction house category: | Printed books |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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Auction house category: | Printed books |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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