Dumb Witness
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
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About This Item
1st ed, published by The Book Club in 1937 (not stated on copyright page), orange and light tan quarter bound boards with black lettering to spine. Four two-tone photos printed on glossy paper inside. Pre wartime economy standards paper, boards are scuffed and show wear, with bumps to corners and a bump on fore edge. Textblock is foxed on fore and bottom edge, and top edge is stained pink. A previous owner wrote his name in ink on the fore edge of the textblock see scan. Three previous owners names on fep and ffep, and toning and foxing to rear endpapers. The d/w has large chips to head and tail of spine and wear and closed tears to flap hinges but it is all still in one piece. Extremely hard to find this book with a wrapper. Price includes tracked courier postage.
Synopsis
Dumb Witness is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on July 5 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client . The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is the second to last Poirot novel to be published that features Hastings as narrator.
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Details
- Seller
- Cape Collector (ZA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 54
- Title
- Dumb Witness
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Orange and Tan Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Pages
- 316
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...