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Destination Unknown
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£210.00£189.00
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About This Item
London: The Crime Club , 1954. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5" . None . Bright first impression of Christie's novel, 'Destination Unknown' in its original dust wrapper. The first impression of this novel by one of the most prolific crime writers of the twentieth century, Agatha Christie. Following the gripping story of Hilary Craven, a woman who is set on committing suicide, until she is recruited by the British secret service for a mission to impersonate the wife of a nuclear scientist who has recently disappeared. This is one of the five Christie novels not to have received any kind of adaptation. A lovely copy in the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper unclipped and smart with some shelf wear, lightly stained to rear wrap. Mino ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine
Synopsis
Hilary Craven has lost the will to live, Mrs Betterton is already dead. Then Hilary is asked to impersonate the dead woman and to trace her husband - a missing nuclear scientist - and her will to live returns. A faked air disaster, a string of radio-active pearls, a leper colony floundering in the dry heat of the Moroccan desert. Hilary is lead towards a terrifying discovery and her new found enthusiasm for life turns into ice-cold fear...Christie based this book partly on the activities of two famous physicists of the early 1950s: Bruno Ponecorvo, who defected to Russia, and Emil Fuchs, who spied for the Russians. It is another of Christie's light-hearted thriller novels featuring a daring and fearless heroine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 830A51
- Title
- Destination Unknown
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- agatha christie crime fiction first editions crime fiction
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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