Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?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, some rubbing and creasing along folds, areas of professional restoration to spine ends and corners, larger restorations along bottoms of front and rear panels, unclipped; some discoloration on endpapers from old binding glue as usual; housed in custom drop-back case. London: Collins, for the Crime Club, (1936)

Additional Details

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