The Mousetrap and Other Plays

Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1981-05-01. 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.. Mass Market Paperback. VG+/VG+/ND. Box 30 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1981 (1978) * Publisher: Bantam Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing Mirrors, guns and a sheet of music. Red & black titles to face and black titles to very lightly dished spine strip. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. None to head or tail of spine. Light marks & single small thumb mark to front edge. VG+.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Some very slight age darkening to top & fore edges. VG+ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 704 pp. text. ii pp. author notes and blank pages at rear* Description:- The scripts of eight different plays by Agatha Christie including, for the first time in paperback, the script of The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the West End of London. It opened on the London stage in 1952 at The Ambassador?s Theatre after a short tour of regional theatres and moved to St Martin?s Theatre next door in 1974 where it continues to entertain the theatre going public to this day. It was originally titled ?Three Blind Mice,? and was broadcast as a radio play in 1947. It was written in the form of a radio play as a birthday present for Queen Mary the consort of King George V. Agatha Christie includes a request to the audiences of this play that they should not tell anyone the denouement of the plot so for many years there was an embargo on allowing the script to be published. It was first published in the USA in 1978.* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with minimal age & wear reducing it to VG+.* 0