Murder at the Vicarage
CHRISTIE, Agatha
[A Miss Marple mystery.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST MISS MARPLE NOVEL
Published: Collins Crime Club, [1930]
Stock code: 51013
Price: £2,300.00
8vo., First Edition, half-title lightly spotted, some very light and inoffensive spotting to text; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, backstrip lettering faintly faded (but wholly legible), upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), backstrip faintly chafed at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy now housed in custom-made board clamshell case lettered in gilt with patterned lining.
With 2pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST MISS MARPLE NOVEL, PRECEDING THE US EDITION BY SEVERAL MONTHS. Miss Marple had previously appeared in a small number of short stories; this is the first book-lEngth novel. EXTREMELY SCARCE.