The Labours Of Hercules: Hercule Poirot Mysteries
by Agatha Christie,
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/ACC/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0330027808
- ISBN 13
- 9780330027809
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Pan Books, 1973-01-01. 1st Edn. 2nd.Imp.. Paperback. VG/ACC/ND. Box 35 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1973 (1947) * Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a gun with numerous items including money, a hypo and items of jewellery. Black & white titles to face and to creased & faded spine strip. Some shelf wear to edges & corners, some damage to head & tail of spine. Creases and wear to both boards. ACC.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Some age darkening and marks to edges especially to top edges. VG * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 256 pp. text. * Description:- Description: This book was published in 1947 by The Collins Crime Club. This collection of short stories comprises a foreword and the following stories:- The Nemean Lion, The Lernaean Hydra, The Arcadian Deer, The Erymanthian Boar, The Augean Stables, The Stymphalean Birds, The Cretan Bull, The Horses of Diomedes, The Girdle of Hippolyta, The Flock of Geryon, The Apples of Hesperides and The Capture of Cerberus. Hercule Poirot’s take on the labours from Homer’s Iliad introduced to him in the foreword by Dr. Burton a fellow of All Souls who remarks that Hercule must be a contraction of Hercules.* This is an ACCEPTABLE copy of the 1st/2nd. with considerable age and wear.*
Synopsis
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Labours of Hercules;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9978
- Title
- The Labours Of Hercules: Hercule Poirot Mysteries
- Author
- Agatha Christie,
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/ACC/ND
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 2nd.Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0330027808
- ISBN 13
- 9780330027809
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973-01-01
- Pages
- 256
- X weight
- g
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
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- Tail
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- Shelf Wear
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- Spine Strip
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- VG
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