![]() A First Edition New York, Dodd, Mead and Company edition of The Secret Adversary may only be worth $450 onwards. The pitfall that awaits the Christie collector is that her books were quickly picked up by other publishers and re-printed in their own editions. Any of her 'true first editions' would fetch a good price now, even without a dust jacket from around $800 onwards. Her earliest works were the Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary, in 19 respectively, by The Bodley Head imprint for Collins. Another reason for the strange variance in prices of Agatha Christie works is that her true first originals are very rare, whilst the rest of her book catalog is so large as to mean that there are many volumes to choose from when collecting. This continual success has ensured that her work has seen many reprints and many editions, which in turn waters the collecting market down somewhat. One of the reasons for this may be her continued, wide-spread success across many decades. However, somewhat strangely the rest of her catalog varies so much in value and availability as to make the work of the Christie collector very confusing! ![]() There are few authors as widely known as Agatha Christie, who, for collectors can be so puzzling! Recently a signed first edition, first impression (print) of her first HerculePoirot book sold at auction for nearly $40 000, a record price for book collectors. ![]()
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