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CHRISTIE, Agatha.

Ten Little Niggers.

Ten Little Niggers.

Stock Code 119558

London, Collins Crime Club, 1939.

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First edition, first impression of Christie's best-selling novel, infamous for its title and cover, which was renamed And Then There Were None for the US market, and Ten Little Indians for subsequent issues and the film adaptations. The first of several titles inspired by nursery rhymes.

Christie said that this was the hardest of her novels to write. She notes in her Autobiography, 'I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning and I was pleased with what I had made of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had a perfectly reasonable explanation'.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; mild spotting throughout and on edges; publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket; a superb, bright copy in an exceptionally bright jacket, just a little rubbed and nicked at extremities, short closed tear to front panel; housed in a red quarter morocco drop back box; 252pp.

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