ID 1028992
Lot 341 | They Came to Baghdad
Estimate value
£ 1 000 – 1 500
First edition in near-fine dust-jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte 'Carlo' Fisher: 'Carlo with love from Agatha'. Hubin p. 79.
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black (spine sunned, small stains to upper joint, top edges of boards slightly dust-stained, faint spotting to fore-edge, minor spotting to endpapers); original dust-jacket supplied from another copy (minor marks and rubbing along folds, head of lower panel with chips and crease). Provenance: Charlotte 'Carlo' Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper, and with Fisher’s posthumous book label).
| Place of origin: | United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
| Place of origin: | United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
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