Agatha Christie – The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side – First UK Edition 1962 – SIGNED Card of Joan Hickson, as well as letter from her son discussing Hickson’s filming of ‘The Mirror’
£600.00
First edition, first printing of ‘The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side’, published by Collins in London, 1962. A near fine copy. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped, displaying the original 15s. Some wear to the spine tips and corners (small name to the front endpaper). Spotting to the top edge of the page block. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and the text blocks are bright and white, though with some slight spotting to the top. With letter from the son of the actress Joan Hickson and reads, ‘Dear Mr Duckett/I am Miss Hickson’s son and I am answering your letteron [sic] her behalf as she just completed her latest and last – Miss Marple film, The Mirror Crack’d, which you will be able to see at Christmas/ However, my mother has read your letter with pleasure and asks me to thank you for it/As yourequest, I enclose your two cards duly signed and a signed photograph of my mother as MIss Marple./ With every good wish/SIGNED N A M Butler’ – one of the signed cards is included.
The story features Christie’s much loved character, Miss Marple, in the last of her classic English village mysteries. in 1980, a Hollywood adaptation starred Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple alongside Elizabeth Taylor as the glamourous Marina Gregg.
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First edition, first printing of ‘The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side’, published by Collins in London, 1962. A near fine copy. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped, displaying the original 15s. Some wear to the spine tips and corners (small name to the front endpaper). Spotting to the top edge of the page block. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and the text blocks are bright and white, though with some slight spotting to the top. With letter from the son of the actress Joan Hickson and reads, ‘Dear Mr Duckett/I am Miss Hickson’s son and I am answering your letteron [sic] her behalf as she just completed her latest and last – Miss Marple film, The Mirror Crack’d, which you will be able to see at Christmas/ However, my mother has read your letter with pleasure and asks me to thank you for it/As yourequest, I enclose your two cards duly signed and a signed photograph of my mother as MIss Marple./ With every good wish/SIGNED N A M Butler’ – one of the signed cards is included.
The story features Christie’s much loved character, Miss Marple, in the last of her classic English village mysteries. in 1980, a Hollywood adaptation starred Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple alongside Elizabeth Taylor as the glamourous Marina Gregg.
