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The Clocks
by Agatha Christie
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- first
- Condition
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1964. First American Edition. This is a first American edition. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.75" with 276 numbered pages.
This book is in fair condition. Moderate bumping and tearing to both ends of spine.
Minor staining to both boards and textblock. Front hinge cracked exposing mesh at title card. Dust jacket is in fair condition Moderate chipping to both ends of spine and around all edges of jacket. Moderate staining to both panels. Original 4.50 price on front flap.
The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory #(N5-34).
This book is in fair condition. Moderate bumping and tearing to both ends of spine.
Minor staining to both boards and textblock. Front hinge cracked exposing mesh at title card. Dust jacket is in fair condition Moderate chipping to both ends of spine and around all edges of jacket. Moderate staining to both panels. Original 4.50 price on front flap.
The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory #(N5-34).
Synopsis
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Clocks;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila’s secretarial agency and asking for her by name—yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb’s ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 — his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4282
- Title
- The Clocks
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead, and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
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Clarence, New York
About Ernestoic Books
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Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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