AGATHA CHRISTIE - CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS - RARE 1959 1ST w/DJ NPC
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First edition
AGATHA CHRISTIE - CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS, published by Dodd Mead, copyright 1959, First Printing (no references to subsequent printings, lists to "Ordeal by Innocence" to left of title page), white endpapers, light grey boards with purple lettering to spine & front board, $2.95 price on DJ front flap. RARE TRUE 1ST TRADE EDITION (the more common book club edition has no price on the DJ front flap, has no list of Christie books to left of title page). Book has no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, clean endpapers - no staining or tape residue, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, no age darkening/dust soiling to outer page edges (slight fading to pink top stain), tight pages with no creased page corners, no wear to board edges, board corners or to spine tips (common defect with these 1950s "sprayed-on" colored boards), no soiling or staining to boards, no bumped board corners. Dust jacket has tiny bit of loss at bottom of spine with related crease otherwise no chipping or tearing or creasing, slight wear to spine tips with sliver loss to top spine tip, almost no wear to front flap crease (just at flap crease corners), fading to publisher's logo on spine but not to author's name on spine (very very common defect with this DJ - usually the title lettering is found completely faded away), hint of dust rubbing to white panels, foxing spots to spine otherwise no soiling or staining. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in VG dust jacket (not price clipped)
- Publisher: Agatha Christie
- Year: 1959
- Condition: Very Good
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