AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE HOLLOW, published by Collins, copyright 1946, FIRST PRINTING (says 'Copyright - Printed in Great Britain - 1946' on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings, lists to 'Sparkling Cyanide' on list of Christie books to left of title page, correct 1st state DJ with blank rear flap, redish orange boards with black lettering on spine, 8s 6d net price on DJ front flap (not the more common unpriced export dust jacket) Book has one creased page corner, no former ownership markings or used book store marks/stamps/stickers inside, clean endpapers - no tape staining or markings, no foxing to pages or endpapers, slight age darkening/foxing/dust soiling to outer page edges, no spine lean, tight white pages with sharp corners, no wear to board edges or corners or spine tips, no spine sun fading, o soiling or stains, no wear/loss to black spine lettering. Bibliographic notes in pencil to the recto of front endpaper. Evidence of bookplate removal to the front pastedown. Tape repairs internally to the wrapper at the joints and to the head and tail of front wraps. Dust wrapper is sound with loss to the head and tail of spine.

Fading to the head and tail of spine as well as to the extremities. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In addition he also played the lead in the 1953 production of 'Witness for the Prosecution', for which he won a Tony.?In America this novel was issued under the title 'Murder after Hours'.?An uncommon Agatha Christie novel. Sullivan portrayed Poirot in the plays 'Black Coffee' and 'Peril at End House'.

The country house setting for this novel was inspired by Francis L Sullivan's house. This was the longest gap in the Poirot novels. 'The Hollow' features Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, best known for using his 'little grey cells' to solve cases.The first edition of this work, with an unclipped dustwrapper.? This work is an example of a 'country house mystery' and was the first novel in four years to feature Poirot. A bright first edition copy of Agatha Christie's noted novel 'The Hollow'.

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