USA: Penguin-Putnam, 1985. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket, Presented for the first time, in this first edition, all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, that amateur Victorian sleuth who solves crimes in her quiet way, basing her solutions on past experience and an insistence that human nature is the same everywhere. The book is bright and clean in yellow cloth over spine with green cloth boards. Upper rear spine head edge is gently bumped. Penciled notes on inside of front cover about the characters in the stories. Table of Contents pages have penciled notes with publication date of various stories. Text pages clean, no markings, no creases. Pages block edges clean, no spotting, white. Bright and clean dust jacket has chipping to spine heel, light wear to corners. 346 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1985, Penguin-Putnam, New York, New York, USA

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A collection of twenty stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, an amateur sleuth who bases her solutions to crimes on past experiences and on the belief that human nature is the same everywhere.

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Bookseller: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 022756
Title: Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Christie, Agatha
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Thus
ISBN 10: 0399150129
ISBN 13: 9780399150128
Publisher: Penguin-Putnam
Place of Publication: USA
Date Published: 1985
Size: 8vo - over 7
Keywords: BRITISH MYSTERY
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
X weight: 0 oz

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