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PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT
by CHRISTIE, Agatha:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1970. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with minor bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth a touch faded to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the very clean original dustwrapper that remains without loss or tears but with the red lettering on the spine faded to a pale pink. Not price-clipped (£1.25 net / 25s net to the lower front flap). Signed by Agatha Christie in black ink on the front end paper. The last of Agatha Christie's spy novels, the publication marking her 80th birthday and (by counting up both UK and US short-story collections to reach the desired total), also advertised as her 80th book. Signed copies are scarce. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Synopsis
When a bored diplomat is approached in a bleak airport by a woman whose life is in danger, he agrees in a moment of weakness to lend her his passport and boarding ticket. Suddenly, Stafford Nye's own life is on the line, and he is caught in a web of international intrigue. To escape he must outwit the power-crazed Countess von Waldsausen, hell-bent on world domination.In 1970, Passenger to Frankfurt was published to coincide with Christie's eightieth year. On publication, the novel was the largest printing ever of a first edition Christie. The 58,000 copies sold out quickly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24279
- Title
- PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT
- Author
- CHRISTIE, Agatha:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1970
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
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