Price: £200
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1947
Stock Number: 70955
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, monochrome plates, pp. 72, crown 8vo, original tape-backed boards, a little rubbed to edges with a knock to top corner of upper board, good
Publication Details: Southsea: Railway Hobbies Ltd, 1947
Notes: Inscribed with the author's compliments on the title-page in 1951 - the recipient being the same 'Miss Christie' addressed in the laid-in typed letter, the contents of which clarifying that this is Agatha Christie (and properly Mrs Mallowan - Christie the residue of her earlier marriage). The letter begins by remarking that 'I have read and enjoyed all of your books to date', before venturing 'a few observations on your train mystery - "Murder on the Orient Express" - as I have more than an average regard for railways'; Allchin points out that the train on which the murder took place would 's...more
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