Agatha Christie – The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – First UK Edition – With SIGNED Letter From Agatha Christie
£3,750.00
London Collins 1960
First edition, first printing. Original publisher’s boards in the dust wrapper, the latter price-clipped. A very good copy, with some light wear and soiling to the rear panel – some light loss to the folds – gift inscription and some spotting within.
Together with a typed letter signed by Agatha Christie, one page, on her Greenway House, Churston Ferrers, South Devon headed paper, dated 1st January 1960. Addressed to Colonel J. S. Whitehead, Christie writes: “Thank you for your kind letter regarding my work. I am sorry but I never send autographed photographs to anybody.” Signed boldly in full in blue ink, “Agatha Christie”. Folded for posting, with light creasing and toning, and accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Colonel Whitehead.
A pleasing copy of Christie’s 1960 Christmas collection, made notably more attractive by the presence of a contemporary signed letter from the author, written from Greenway in the year of publication, and retaining its original mailing envelope. A characteristically direct and rather charming Christie response to an admirer, with a fine full signature. A lovely pairing: the festive Poirot collection and an original piece of Christie correspondence from the same year.
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London Collins 1960
First edition, first printing. Original publisher’s boards in the dust wrapper, the latter price-clipped. A very good copy, with some light wear and soiling to the rear panel – some light loss to the folds – gift inscription and some spotting within.
Together with a typed letter signed by Agatha Christie, one page, on her Greenway House, Churston Ferrers, South Devon headed paper, dated 1st January 1960. Addressed to Colonel J. S. Whitehead, Christie writes: “Thank you for your kind letter regarding my work. I am sorry but I never send autographed photographs to anybody.” Signed boldly in full in blue ink, “Agatha Christie”. Folded for posting, with light creasing and toning, and accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Colonel Whitehead.
A pleasing copy of Christie’s 1960 Christmas collection, made notably more attractive by the presence of a contemporary signed letter from the author, written from Greenway in the year of publication, and retaining its original mailing envelope. A characteristically direct and rather charming Christie response to an admirer, with a fine full signature. A lovely pairing: the festive Poirot collection and an original piece of Christie correspondence from the same year.
