Detective Fiction--Christie, Agatha--Sayers, Dorothy L.

Christie, Agatha. The Body in the Library. The Crime Club, 1942, first edition, original orange cloth lettered in black on spine, dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, slightly soiled dust-jacket with some professional restoration to dust-jacket including new fragments to head and foot of spine--Sayers, Dorothy L. Whose Body? New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923, first edition first issue (lacking the publishing company's 'inc' to title page), original grey cloth lettered in black on spine and upper cover, some slight browning and spotting, minor split to upper hinge, spine slightly soiled--both 8vo (2)

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The Sayers title comprises the first edition of the first 'lord peter wimsey' novel.