Murder For Christmas; A Poirot Story
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Books, Inc.. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Jacket is heavily chipped and worn but still present. Book itself has bumping around the edges and some fabric loss along edges especially at bottom of the spine and corners. .
Synopsis
Hercule Poirot's Christmas is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on December 19, 1938 (although the first edition is copyright dated 1939). It retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). It was published in US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1939 under the title of Murder for Christmas. This edition retailed at $2.00. A paperback edition in the US by Avon books in 1947 changed the title again to A Holiday for Murder.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Trader (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040801
- Title
- Murder For Christmas; A Poirot Story
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Books, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1944
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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- Fair
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...