Agatha Christie – The Hollow – First UK Edition 1946

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Agatha Christie – The Hollow – First UK Edition 1946

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£600.00

First edition, first printing. Published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1946. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is markedly clean and bright on both front and rear panels, though there are slight handling marks to the rear. There is a minor tear to the tail of the spine, with some light scuffing to top and bottom edges throughout and mild sunning. It has not been price clipped, showing the original 8s. 6d. net price. The boards are characteristically thin due to poor paper stock post-war, and so are so very slightly worn, but remain highly presentable in light-red cloth. The text blocks are also markedly clean, considering said paper stock, though with some slight foxing, particularly to the top edge. 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. Published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1946. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is markedly clean and bright on both front and rear panels, though there are slight handling marks to the rear. There is a minor tear to the tail of the spine, with some light scuffing to top and bottom edges throughout and mild sunning. It has not been price clipped, showing the original 8s. 6d. net price. The boards are characteristically thin due to poor paper stock post-war, and so are so very slightly worn, but remain highly presentable in light-red cloth. The text blocks are also markedly clean, considering said paper stock, though with some slight foxing, particularly to the top edge. 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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