Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
CHRISTIE, AGATHA. Murder in Mesopotamia. 8vo, original orange cloth, spine very lightly faded; dust jacket, scattered light dust-soiling, few small corner nicks, one small cellotape repair to verso of spine panel head; unclipped; some discoloration on endpapers as usual, Crime Club membership postcard laid-in; housed in custom drop-back case. London: Collins, for the Crime Club, (1936)

Additional Details

first edition. unusually nice copy. The evocative jacket design is by Robin Macartney, who participated in archaeological expeditions with the author and her husband Max Mallowan.