A Pocket Full of Rye

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. Good / Very Good/Good / Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. First US Edition. Octavo (22cm); 211pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; boards bound in green wax cloth with white lettering. Dust jacket shows superficial scratches, scuffing, and faint staining throughout; spine chipped at head and onto rear panel with partial loss of text; text along spine is faded; tears forming along flap edges. Boards bumped and scuffed at spine and corners. Endpages toned. Scattered water spotting, mainly to textblock fore-edge and pp1–4. Binding sound. A Good to Very Good copy in like jacket.

This is the seventh novel featuring Agatha Christie’s famous detective Miss Marple. (Inventory #: 33070)