Description:
For sale is a beautiful 18-volume starter set of the Agatha Christie Collected Works, published by Omniprose Ltd. (Scarborough, Ontario).
Rare Edition Note: Unlike the common European imports, these specific volumes are the harder-to-find “Printed in Canada” variants. This makes them a unique addition for collectors of Canadian imprints and vintage mystery sets.
Features:
- Design: Elegant red faux-leather (leatherette) hardcovers with intricate gold-embossed spines and front covers.
- Format: Each volume is a “two-in-one” omnibus (e.g., A Murder is Announced paired with After the Funeral).
- Illustrations: Many volumes include vintage illustrations by Pierre Monnerat.
- Condition: “Excellent vintage condition. Gold gilt is bright, bindings are tight, and pages are clean with no writing or tea stains.”
Titles Included in this 18-Volume Set:
- A Murder is Announced / After the Funeral
- Curtain / Sleeping Murder
- Crooked House / Passenger to Frankfurt
- The Murder on the Links / The Secret Adversary
- Nemesis / The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
- 4.50 from Paddington / They Do It with Mirrors
- Hallowe’en Party / Third Girl
- Dead Man’s Folly / Elephants Can Remember
- At Bertram’s Hotel / A Caribbean Mystery
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding / The Hound of Death
- The Listerdale Mystery / The Clocks
- Poirot’s Early Cases / Postern of Fate
- Mrs. McGinty’s Dead / The Labours of Hercules
- A Pocket Full of Rye / Thirteen for Luck!
- Taken at the Flood / Hickory Dickory Dock
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs / The Pale Horse
- The Man in the Brown Suit / The Secret of Chimneys
- Cat Among the Pigeons / Ordeal by Innocence
Price: $450 (OBO)
Location: [Windsor, Ontario]
Willing to ship at buyer’s expense or meet for local pickup.