Item #25645 MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE. Agatha Christie.

MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE.

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-244 [245] [246: ad] [247-248: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. First U. S. edition. Collection of twelve short stories first published in England by Collins in 1934 as Parker Pyne Investigates. "On rereading, the collection holds up very well." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime: Revised and Enlarged Edition (1989) #3691. Hubin, p. 164. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 25. Several very faint water strikes to cloth on front cover, a bright, near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with 10 x 35 mm chip from head of spine panel, tiny chips from upper front corner tips, and shelf wear at tail of spine panel and lower corner tips. (25645). Item #25645

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