Author: Agatha Christie
Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Description: London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of one of Agatha Christie's most celebrated novels, a work which marked a turning point in her early career. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.This landmark of detective fiction was Christie's third novel to feature Hercule Poirot, and was her first best seller.The innovative ending significantly impacted the genre of detective fiction, and resulted in this work frequently being identified as the best crime novel of all time.With a small ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, with light offsetting of the ink to the front pastedown.One of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, it was Christie's first work to be released by her longstanding publisher, William Collins. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with small splits in the cloth towards the head and tail of rear joint. Light marks to rear board. Ink inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, with light offsetting of the ink to the front pastedown. light ink mark to fore edge of text block. Tail of rear free endpaper removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, and generally clean, with instances of light spotting to the first and last few few leaves, and only the odd further instance of spotting. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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