A POCKET FULL OF RYE
by CHRISTIE, AGATHA
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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PASADENA, California, United States
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About This Item
COLLINS Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. A very good first edition in fine dust jacket. Owned by Charlie Watts, ROLLING STONE drummer. First edition in a very good dust-jacket.WITH COA Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte 'Carlo' Fisher: 'For Carlo with love from Agatha'. Bookplate "From the library of Charlotte "Carlo" Fisher. Original dust-jacket supplied from another copy.
Synopsis
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 9, 1953 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple.
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- Bookseller
- VAGABOND BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHE
- Title
- A POCKET FULL OF RYE
- Author
- CHRISTIE, AGATHA
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- COLLINS
- Bookseller catalogs
- mystery;
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VAGABOND BOOKS
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PASADENA, California
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...