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Agatha Christie – The Hollow – First UK Edition 1946
£675.00
First edition, first printing of ‘The Hollow’ by Agatha Christie, published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1946. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is markedly clean and bright on the front and spine, although there is a mark and a rough patch of wear to the rear panel. The dust wrapper has been price clipped. The boards are characteristically thin due to poor paper stock post-war, and so are so slightly bowed, but remain highly presentable in light-red cloth. The text blocks are also markedly clean, considering said paper stock. There is a small gift inscription to the front endpaper. Overall, this is a near fine copy of an increasingly scarce title. The novel is an example of a “country house mystery” and was the first of her novels in four years to feature Christie’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot—one of the longest gaps in the entire series. Christie, who often admitted that she did not like Poirot (a fact parodied by her recurring novelist character Ariadne Oliver), particularly disliked his appearance in this novel.
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First edition, first printing of ‘The Hollow’ by Agatha Christie, published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1946. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is markedly clean and bright on the front and spine, although there is a mark and a rough patch of wear to the rear panel. The dust wrapper has been price clipped. The boards are characteristically thin due to poor paper stock post-war, and so are so slightly bowed, but remain highly presentable in light-red cloth. The text blocks are also markedly clean, considering said paper stock. There is a small gift inscription to the front endpaper. Overall, this is a near fine copy of an increasingly scarce title.
The novel is an example of a “country house mystery” and was the first of her novels in four years to feature Christie’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot—one of the longest gaps in the entire series. Christie, who often admitted that she did not like Poirot (a fact parodied by her recurring novelist character Ariadne Oliver), particularly disliked his appearance in this novel.
