POIROT'S EARLY CASES

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm with just a touch of bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth and gilt fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good, lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (£2.25 to the lower front flap). A tough title to acquire in anything like decent condition, the unlaminated dustwrapper being particularly prone to heavy rubbing and chipping.

A collection of 18 short stories written in the inter-war years [roughly contemporaneous with Poirot Investigates] and published here in book form for the first time. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).