Beschreibung:

AGATHA CHRISTIE (1890-1976) A collection of 13 novels, some inscribed and/or containing inserted manuscript letters, the inscriptions and letters all being to her friend Esmé Nicoll, as follows: Sad Cypress, 8vo, Crime Club, 1940, front blank inscribed by the author and dated March 7th 1940, with a 2pp. a.l.s tipped onto front pastedown, dated Greenaway House, Churston Ferrers, South Devon. 'Thursday', to Mrs Nicoll, making arrangements to meet her at the station, original cloth The Moving Finger, 8vo, Crime Club, 1943, with a 3½pp. a.l.s. dated Swan Court, S.W.3., Jan 19th [1950 or 51] discussing future travel plans, original cloth Crooked House, 8vo, Crime Club, 1949, with a tipped-in 1p. a.l.s to Esmé Nicoll, dated Baghdad Jan 17th, saying she has just arrived and has received such a large quantity of mail she 'shall soon begin to think of herself as a public benefactor, rather than a successful tradesman', original cloth They Came to Baghdad, 8vo, Crime Club, 1951, with a 2pp. a.l.s. dated Aug. 19th Greenaway House, South Devon, tipped onto front blank, original cloth Mrs McGinty's Dead, 8vo, Crime Club, 1952, with 1p. tipped-in letter, dated Greenaway House, South Devon, Aug. 12th, inviting Esmé Nicoll to tea, original cloth Ordeal by Innocence, 8vo, Crime Club, 1958, front blank inscribed by the author, original cloth The Cat Among the Pigeons, 8vo, Crime Club, 1959, with 7 loosely inserted letters from the author to Esmé Nicoll, [no year], on aspects of their friendship, original cloth The Pale Horse, 8vo, Crime Club, 1961, with a 2½pp. a.l.s., dated Swan Court, S.W.3, May 30th, thanking Esmé Nicoll for her congratulations on her 'D. Litt' and saying that her husband, Max, 'has not been at all well this winter', original cloth, dust-jacket Passenger to Frankfurt, 8vo, Crime Club, 1970, front blank inscribed by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket Endless Night, Crime Club, 1967, half-title inscribed by the author to Esmé, with a loosely-inserted a.l.s., dated Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Jan 31st, stating that she and her husband have just returned from Persia 'where we passed an interesting three weeks', original cloth, dust-jacket; and 3 other vols., unsigned. (13)