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Come, Tell Me How You Live
by Agatha Christie Mallowan, introduction by Jacquetta Hawkes
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bodley Head, 1983. First Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First thus. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 192pp. Agatha Christie's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to answer their questions in this delightful book. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a neat previous owner's name and date to the ffep, and a little edgewear to the wrapper.
Synopsis
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company.
Reviews
On May 25 2012, Cat 4 Paws said:
A must for Agatha junkies, although not her usual fare. It is an account of her journeys to Syria with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan. As Agatha says, "It is, in fact, small beer--a very little book, full of every day doings and happenings." It is comical at times, and sad at times. It also gives an unintended view of the attitudes and standards of westerners in a backward Middle Eastern country in the 1930s. Still, beautifully written. The book itself was "used - like new" and was in perfect condition, leather bound, and from a "collection". Delivery was prompt. I think I love this site. Prices were lower than Amazon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cox and Budge Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013811
- Title
- Come, Tell Me How You Live
- Author
- Agatha Christie Mallowan, introduction by Jacquetta Hawkes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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