Dumb Witness by Christie Agatha, First Edition (13 results)

Condition: good. 1st Edition. 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in paperback. Fontana. London. 1957. 256 pages. Spine edges sl. rubbed, covers slightly soiled, pages browned otherwise a sound copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Agatha Christie Facsimile. Near Fine.

Collins Crime Club. London. 2012. First edition, thus. 40th Anniversary edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. A good clean and copy in a slightly worn wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing. Book Club exclusive hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean. Minor bump to head and foot of spine, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges, more pronounced to top edge. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feels lightly read. Near fine condition. Jacket has some minor pressure marks to upper joint. Light handling marks to the gloss. Overall near fine. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A very nice example of this uncommon omnibus, collecting the Christie novels: Dumb Witness (1937); Murder in Mesopotamia (1936); Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Teason, William (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Dell Printing. Slight edge wear and rubbing. Slight tanning. An attractive copy. ; Dell 6984. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 252 pages; "Hercule Poirot opened the envelope and read death between the lines. Unfortunately, the terrified message came too late. The lady who had written it was already in her grave, her bizarre will had been approved by law, and the case was officially closed. . . until the greatest detective of them all lifted the lid on a viper's nest of greed, deception, and jealousy. Poirot vowed that this time he would not be too late to stop a brilliant and baffling killer who was about to strike again. . . .".

3rd imp. softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy small octavo 255pp., Superb period cover illustration. Hint of toning to paper o/w a very nice crisp copy, with very nice spine, of the third impression of the first paperback edition. PHOTO available.

Wine - Gilt Lettering HC. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. bottom end spine 2 inch tear from shelving; x-lib; tape residue on cover boards; bottom end cover board shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First impression. Boards are stained and corners are bumped. Spine is intact and tight. Ex library sticker to front board, other than this, clean throughout with some age toning throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. 1937. First edition, first printing with 1937 on the title page, with matching date copyright page, with no further printings listed. No DJ. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. Orange topstain, as issued. Orange cloth with titles stamped in black. Illustrated red and cream endpapers, with Red Badge Detective insignia and lightning bolts. Plot synopsis on fly, as issued. Orange cloth shows light soiling, mostly on rear panel. Shelf-rubbing along edges and tips. Endpapers show light soiling. Light soiling, and faint foxing to page edges. White pencil on front panel near crown.Panels would clean up nicely with little effort. This mystery features Hercule Poirot and is narrated by his friend Arthur Hastings. It is the last book to feature the character of Hastings until the final Poirot novel, 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which Hastings also narrates. A solid first edition, first printing of a pre-1940 Christie first printing; released in the UK under the title Dumb Witness.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Rare wartime early impression of the true first edition, published April 1940, in near fine condition. Issued in the uniform edition, using the same green boards and thick paper as the first edition, but with the standard uniform edition dustwrapper design. The first impression was published in July 1937; second impression in July 1938, third impression in October 1938, and this fourth impression in April, 1940. ***Near fine in green cloth-covered boards with black titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and faded. Boards clean and bright. No bumps. No tears to the cloth. Internally near fine with no foxing. Pages white and clean, including a very clean top edge to the page block. Contemporaneous wartime gift inscription and date in neat black fountain pen ink to front free endpaper: ' To Alf with best wishes from Henry, 24. viii. 1941'. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 3/6 net on a label to the bottom of the front flap. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased, nicked and rubbed. Small loss to head and tail of spine of dustwrapper. Very small pencil number '841' to top outer corner of rear panel of dustwrapper (could easily be rubbed out). No fading. No major chips or tears. The original dustwrapper is vibrant and bright. ***316 pages plus four pages publisher's adverts to rear. 190mm x 128mm. ***'Excellent --- in the best Christie vein.' [The Times]. 'One of Poirot's most brilliant achievements.' [Glasgow Herald]. 'This is Agatha Christie at her best.' [John O'London's]. 'She adds a terrier so fascinating that even Poirot himself is nearly driven from the centre of the stage.' [Manchester Guardian] - contemporary review quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper. ***A fourth impression of the true first edition, complete in its original 1940 thin, fragile wartime dustwrapper in lovely bright collectable condition. A near fine copy and rare thus. Editions of Agatha Christie's works from this period in such nice condition are seldom found now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. AGATHA CHRISTIE - DUMB WITNESS (published in the U.S. under the title "Poirot Loses a Client"), published by UK publisher The Book Club, copyright 1937, orange and light tan quarterbound boards with black lettering to spine, with 4 two-tone pictures printed on glossy paper inside - VERY RARE BOOK TO FIND WITH ITS ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. NOTE: WHILE THIS IS A BOOK CLUB EDITION, IT IS STILL A VERY COLLECTIBLE BOOK IN ITS OWN RIGHT - ITS JUST AS RARE AS THE UK COLLINS 1ST, AND IT ALSO CONTAINS 4 GLOSSY PICTURES (ONE OF CHRISTIE'S DOG WHOM WAS ALSO USED ON THE COLLINS DUST JACKET COVER ART, AND A PICTURE OF CHRISTIE HERSELF POSING AS THE 'VICTIM' IN THE STORY). THIS WAS THE ONLY UK CHRISTIE BOOK THAT WAS PUBLISHED AS A BOOK CLUB EDITION IN THE 1930s AND 1940s. Book has no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, clean endpapers - no staining or tape residue (some age darkening), no foxing to endpapers or pages or outer page edges, red top stain is nice with no drop spots or fading (foxing/dust soiling to outer page edges), tight white pages with a couple of creased page corners, no wear to board edges, corners or spine tips, no wear to left/right spine hinges, NO SPINE FAD (this book is nortorious for having spine sun fading when its found without its dust jacket), spine lettering is still present and not worn, no dust soiling or staining to boards. Dust jacket has tiny bit of loss at bottom right on front panel and top of spine, couple of tiny nick tears with related creasing along top edge, otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, no wear to front flap crease, slight edge wear, no spine fade, slight color rubbing to left/right on spine, slight dust rubbing to white rear panel, no soiling or staining, front panel artwork is quite nice. Overall a VG+/FINE- book in VG original dust jacket of a rare 1930s era UK Agatha Christie 1st book club printing. I have a number of other U.K. and U.S. Agatha Christie 1st printing hardcover books up for sale.