CHRISTIE, Agatha. Mrs. McGinty’s Dead. London: Collins for The Crime Club, 1952. First edition, 8vo (179 x 118mm.) 4pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original grey cloth (spine lean, sunned at top of spine panel), dust-jacket (loss to spine panel, extremities chipped). – And a further twenty-three volumes of 20th century fiction (including Agatha Christie’s ‘A Pocket Full of Rye’, first edition, 1953, 8vo, and ‘The Pale Horse’, first edition, 1961, 8vo, and Terry Pratchett’s ‘Moving Pictures’, first edition, 1990, 8vo, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’, 3 vols., 1966-1971, 8vo, and Aldous Huxley’s ‘After Many a Summer’, first edition, 1939, 8vo, and Bernard Cornwell’s ‘Harlequin’, signed by the author, 2000, 8vo, and Cornwell’s ‘Sharpe’s Fortress’, signed by the author, 1999, 8vo, and Dick Francis’ ‘The Danger’, signed by the author, 1983, 8vo, and Eoin Colfer’s ‘Artemis Fowl’, signed by the author, 2001, 8vo ) (24).