The Clocks; Third Girl; Murder in the Mews (Agatha Christie Crime Collection series)

1st thus. 542pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt and red decorations and lettering, gilt titles on red relief on spine, gilt and red dagger design on upper pan.  Upper text block edge sprayed red.  Decorative headband. Orange endpapers.  8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Dust jacket slightly shelf worn, red lettering on spine faded to a mere shadow (as is common for this edition), minor scratches on spine, very gently bumped on extreme edges.  Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

The Agatha Christie Crime Collection, issued by Hamlyn Publishing Group in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is a definitive collected edition of Christie’s crime fiction, including her short stories, up to the publication of Nemesis in 1972. Each volume contains three of her detective fiction novels or collected short stories. Issued by monthly subscription only, this edition was never sold through bookshops. The set was nicely produced, with each volume featuring golden dagger over Christie’s initials on the front panel, coloured endpapers, sprayed top edges and encased in period dust jackets, each one featuring a element of one of the three mysteries. Some of those in the series are now hard to find especially, it is said, some of the later issues, as subscriptions to the series fell off towards the end. We have several volumes from this series in stock and can offer generous discounts to those purchasing more than one volume at a time – please inquire.