{"product_id":"christie-agatha-halloween-party-uk-first-edition-1969","title":"Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party - UK First Edition (1969)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTIE, Agatha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHallowe'en Party\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLondon : Collins, The Crime Club, 1969. First edition (preceding the Dodd, Mead U.S. edition of the same year).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (21 x 14cm) original red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the Crime Club \"man with pistol\" device gilt-stamped at the foot; in the original pictorial dust jacket; pp. 255; dedicated by Christie \"To P. G. Wodehouse.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe first edition of this later Hercule Poirot mystery, in which Poirot is summoned by his friend the detective novelist Ariadne Oliver after a Hallowe'en party for local children ends in tragedy with a girl drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, having earlier boasted of once having witnessed a murder. Poirot's investigation into the sleepy respectability of Woodleigh Common uncovers a decades-old crime beneath its surface. Christie's dedication to Wodehouse, made not long before his knighthood, reflects the long mutual admiration between the two writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoards square, gilt spine bright, corners lightly bumped with slight bruising to the head and foot of the spine; no foxing to the text block or page edges, internally clean throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, with a small later bookseller's label to the front flap; some bends and creases to the covers as illustrated, a 1.5-inch closed tear (held, not detached), and foxing to the interior of the jacket, only mildly visible from the exterior. Priced accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA good, honest copy of a scarcer later Poirot title in its correct first-edition jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48228996808756,"sku":null,"price":190.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/20F63D05-F49C-4651-8813-3A5ED0D3D41A_1_105_c.jpg?v=1787544689","url":"https:\/\/www.inkandsignaturebooks.com.au\/products\/christie-agatha-halloween-party-uk-first-edition-1969","provider":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}