N or M ? The Agatha Christie Collection. Volume 49

Planet Three, 2003-01-01. 1st Thus?. Hardcover. VG+/GD++/ND. Box 10 HARDBACK ""VOLUME 49 IN THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION SERIES,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus, Reprint.* Pub: Planet Three Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Blue-green paper covered boards with small inset colour picture showing a shadowy figure in a hat lighting a cigarette, gilt title to black spine strip and gilt title to face. Light bump to lower front corner, minor rubs, some damage at head of spine, no other visible faults. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, as issued.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and coloured end papers (blue). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal paper colouration throughout. Very slight marks to edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 202 pp. text. vii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: This book was first published in the UK in 1941 by The Collins Crime Club. The title is taken from a catechism in the Book of Common Prayer which asks, ""What is your Christian name? Answer N. or M?"" The ""N. or M."" here stands for the Latin, ""nomen vel nomina"", meaning ""name or names"". It is an accident of typography that ""nomina"" came to be represented by ""m"". The novel is the first to feature the mature versions of her detectives Tommy and Tuppence, whose previous appearances had been in the adventure The Secret Adversary (1922) and the short story collection Partners in Crime (1929).* A NEAR VG++ text copy with some cover faults reducing it to GD++. No dust jacket.*