Buy this book on-line CHRISTIE**, AGATHA: : HERCULE POIROT AND THE GREENSHORE FOLLYLONDON.HarperCollins Publishers,2014. ISBN 978000754639.
UK,small 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,montage'd matt,colour pictorial artwork illustrations by Tom Adams,illustrated dw/dj with capitalised,white-lettered title,similarly coloured+lettered Tom Adams introduction credit and an Agatha Christie white-lettered facsimile signature,title+author name to front of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with author's capitalised, white-lettered name at its head,lower cased white-lettered title and publisher's white-lettered+illustrated name and colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of Tom Adams coloured artwork..Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp,clean without blemish/foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher’s bright, crisp,clean/unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,glossy blocked black ink lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate repeated colour+b/w artwork by Tom Adams illustrated endpapers.UK,small 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-159pp [paginated] includes a Tom Adams Introduction,a Preface by Mathew Prichard [Agatha Christie's grandson],10 chapters each with identical repeated b/w chapter headpiece illustrations by Tom Adams,an Afterword by Dr John Curran,the renowned Christie expert,about the writing of the story/novella.Plus [unpaginated] a colour illustrated frontis to verso of front free endpaper by Tom Adams - Dead Man's Folly (an original UK cover painting),a half-title+title with list of Christie titles to its verso,title page with repeated chapter headpiece b/w illustration,and a Contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 10 year-old age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. An urgent telephone call summons Poirot to Devonshire on what Miss Lemon declares is a 'wild goose chase'.The caller is the eccentric detective novelist,Mrs Ariadne Oliver,and the reason for her alarm seems based solely on woman's intuition.Is the fictional murder scenario she has been asked to devise a cover-up for something more sinister?And what is the significance of the Grenshre Folly,an architectural embarrassment in the sweeping grounds of the otherwise impressive Greenshore House?
Written by Agatha Christie in 1954 to help raise money for her loccal chuch at churston Ferrers,'The Greenshore Folly' novella was ultimately never published in its original form. Instead,it became the basis for one of her favourite novels,'Dead Man's Folly',and a Miss Marple story was written for the church. Marking 60 years (then 2014) since it was written,this previously unpublished version of the story is introduced by Tom Adams,whose intricate paintings graced a number of Agatha Christie's paperback covers throughout the 1960s and 1970s,and who has paainted this remarkable new jacket for this book,It also includes aa preface by Christie's grandson and an insightful afterword by Christie expert,Dr John Curran.
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