Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary

John Lane, The Bodley Head

1922

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Finely bound first-edition copy of The Secret Adversary, Christie's scarce second novel, being the first adventure for her popular series characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

  • Agatha Christie (English).
  • London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1922.
  • 312 pages; [4], advertisements.
  • Octavo.
  • Bound in green full morocco by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, all edges gilt.

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Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear.

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First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Detective fiction, Modern first editions, Fine bindings

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