Destination Unknown
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Collins for the Crime Club, 1954. A very nice copy in near fine condition. Previous owners name to front fixed endpaper remains discreet. Housed in the distinctive green dustwrapper with publishers printed price intact on front inside flap. Miniscule wear and signs of handling otherwise the dustwrapper remains in very presentable condition. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. Already becoming scarce in the aforementioned condition.. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. FIRST EDITION.
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
- The Rare Book Shelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000974
- Title
- Destination Unknown
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins for the Crime Club
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
The Rare Book Shelf
Biblio member since 2005
Herefordshire
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Glossary
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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