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Crime Collection - 24 Volumes -
Agatha Christie
1969-1972 - Paul Hamlyn, London - First Edition Thus
The works by the ‘Queen of Crime’ - 72 novels and short story collections stunningly hand-bound in twenty four volumes (three titles per volume). An eye-catching and comprehensive set including all the elusive early titles, from The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Hallowe'en Party and Passenger to Frankfurt.
The only major collection of Christie's novels to date, issued as a set for subscribers and endorsed by Agatha Christie. It includes all the published crime novels up to 1970, and features Agatha Christie’s foreword and facsimile signature in the first volume.
Christie’s works have stood the test of time. In 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association, and she is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling novelist of all time, her novels have sold an estimated two billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible. They have been translated into over 100 languages, with and Then There Were None selling over 100 million copies (as at 2014), making it the world’s best selling mystery ever.
Reference: Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure 129.
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1969-1972 - Paul Hamlyn, London - First Edition Thus
The works by the ‘Queen of Crime’ - 72 novels and short story collections stunningly hand-bound in twenty four volumes (three titles per volume). An eye-catching and comprehensive set including all the elusive early titles, from The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Hallowe'en Party and Passenger to Frankfurt.The only major collection of Christie's novels to date, issued as a set for subscribers and endorsed by Agatha Christie. It includes all the published crime novels up to 1970, and features Agatha Christie’s foreword and facsimile signature in the first volume.
Christie’s works have stood the test of time. In 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association, and she is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling novelist of all time, her novels have sold an estimated two billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible. They have been translated into over 100 languages, with and Then There Were None selling over 100 million copies (as at 2014), making it the world’s best selling mystery ever.
Reference: Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure 129.
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The Sittaford Mystery -
Agatha Christie
1931 - Published for The Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London - First English Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of this rare Christie first edition, one of the earliest Crime Club books by Collins.
‘In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’
Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot’.
A bleak case, set in Christie's native Devon, against the rugged backdrop of Dartmoor in Winter with its looming menace, which adds, as in Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', an extra personality and depth to the proceedings.
Named after the Sittaford 'Tor' (Celtic for rocky peak) where the author penned her first novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'.
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1931 - Published for The Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London - First English Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of this rare Christie first edition, one of the earliest Crime Club books by Collins. ‘In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’
Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot’.
A bleak case, set in Christie's native Devon, against the rugged backdrop of Dartmoor in Winter with its looming menace, which adds, as in Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', an extra personality and depth to the proceedings.
Named after the Sittaford 'Tor' (Celtic for rocky peak) where the author penned her first novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'.
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Lord Edgware Dies -
Agatha Christie
1933 - Published for The Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London - First Edition
A sumptuously bound first edition of this Poirot mystery, which The Times declared ‘A Triumph’ in 1933.
‘Each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes?... One makes one's judgements - but nine times out of ten one is wrong’ - Hercule Poirot.
‘Supper at the Savoy! Hercule Poirot, the famous little detective, was enjoying a pleasant little supper party there as the guest of Lady Edgware, formerly Jane Wilkinson, a beautiful young American actress. During the conversation Lady Edgware speaks of the desirability of getting rid of her husband...’
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1933 - Published for The Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London - First Edition
A sumptuously bound first edition of this Poirot mystery, which The Times declared ‘A Triumph’ in 1933.‘Each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes?... One makes one's judgements - but nine times out of ten one is wrong’ - Hercule Poirot.
‘Supper at the Savoy! Hercule Poirot, the famous little detective, was enjoying a pleasant little supper party there as the guest of Lady Edgware, formerly Jane Wilkinson, a beautiful young American actress. During the conversation Lady Edgware speaks of the desirability of getting rid of her husband...’
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas -
Agatha Christie
1939 - Published for The Crime Club by Collins, London - First Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of this seasonal case for the great Belgian detective, from the queen of the Golden Age of Crime.
'You yearned for a "good violent murder with lots of blood". So this is your special story – written for you.' - Agatha Christie.
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man!
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1939 - Published for The Crime Club by Collins, London - First Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of this seasonal case for the great Belgian detective, from the queen of the Golden Age of Crime.'You yearned for a "good violent murder with lots of blood". So this is your special story – written for you.' - Agatha Christie.
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man!
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -
Agatha Christie
1926 - W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London - First Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of this landmark of detective fiction, a scarce and desirable Hercule Poirot mystery, widely regarded as one of the most influential crime novels ever written, which many feel is Christie's masterpiece.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death!
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1926 - W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London - First Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of this landmark of detective fiction, a scarce and desirable Hercule Poirot mystery, widely regarded as one of the most influential crime novels ever written, which many feel is Christie's masterpiece.Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death!
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The Seven Dials Mystery -
Agatha Christie
1929 - W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London - First Edition
Exquisitely bound first edition of this country-house mystery, being a sequel to ‘The Secret of Chimneys’.
This was the second of five novels featuring Police Superintendent Battle, an ally of detectives Hercule Poirot and Colonel Johnny Race.
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1929 - W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London - First Edition
Exquisitely bound first edition of this country-house mystery, being a sequel to ‘The Secret of Chimneys’.This was the second of five novels featuring Police Superintendent Battle, an ally of detectives Hercule Poirot and Colonel Johnny Race.
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2001 A Space Odyssey -
Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick
1968 - The New American Library, New York - First Edition
‘Unless you obey my instructions, I shall be forced to disconnect you.’
A superior first edition of this science fiction cult classic, that captured and expanded on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s film, housed in a custom clamshell case.
‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ was the author's novelisation based on the joint screenplay by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. With the success of both the book and film, Clarke became perhaps the best ‘known science fiction writer in the world’ (Clarke & Clute).
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1968 - The New American Library, New York - First Edition
‘Unless you obey my instructions, I shall be forced to disconnect you.’A superior first edition of this science fiction cult classic, that captured and expanded on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s film, housed in a custom clamshell case.
‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ was the author's novelisation based on the joint screenplay by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. With the success of both the book and film, Clarke became perhaps the best ‘known science fiction writer in the world’ (Clarke & Clute).
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Incendiary - SIGNED -
Chris Cleave
2005 - Chatto & Windus, London - First Edition. Number 17 of 500 limited copies
‘An al-Qaeda bomb attack on a London soccer match provides the tragicomic donnée of former Daily Telegraph journalist Cleave's impressive multilayered debut: a novel-length letter from an enraged mother to Osama bin Laden. Living hand to mouth in London's East End, the unnamed mother's life is shattered when her policeman husband (part of a bomb disposal unit) and four-year-old son are killed in the stadium stands.’ – Publisher’s Weekly.
‘Arguably the strangest epistolary novel ever written’ – Newsweek.
True first and limited edition issued two weeks before the trade edition. Signed by the author and with a typed note of thanks. Unfortunately, it was published on the 7 July 2005, the day of the London bombings and most of the major bookshops removed it from their shelves.
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2005 - Chatto & Windus, London - First Edition. Number 17 of 500 limited copies
‘An al-Qaeda bomb attack on a London soccer match provides the tragicomic donnée of former Daily Telegraph journalist Cleave's impressive multilayered debut: a novel-length letter from an enraged mother to Osama bin Laden. Living hand to mouth in London's East End, the unnamed mother's life is shattered when her policeman husband (part of a bomb disposal unit) and four-year-old son are killed in the stadium stands.’ – Publisher’s Weekly.‘Arguably the strangest epistolary novel ever written’ – Newsweek.
True first and limited edition issued two weeks before the trade edition. Signed by the author and with a typed note of thanks. Unfortunately, it was published on the 7 July 2005, the day of the London bombings and most of the major bookshops removed it from their shelves.
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