First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in the Kenneth Farnhill illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding firm with just a touch of bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is a little faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (9s 6d net to the front flap).
A Hercule Poirot novel. First published in America by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952, the British edition was followed in March of the same year. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).
Stock code: 27009
£245