Collier's The National Weekly August 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 and September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 1940 The Patriotic Murders (One, Two, Buckle My Shoe or An Overdose of Death), A Girl Must be Sure, What Happened to France, Traitor's Purse (The Sabotage Murder Mystery), The Claim Jumpers, and others

Descripción

The August 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 and September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 1940 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction includes, most notably, the complete serial publication (parts 1 - 9 of 9) of The Patriotic Murders (One, Two, Buckle My Shoe or An Overdose of Death), a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie (precedes book publication). Other fiction and articles include A Girl Must be Sure (8/17), a short story by Frederick Nebel, What Happened to France (8/24 & 31, & 9/7, 14 & 21), parts 1 - 5 of 5 of a series of articles on the fall of France to Germany at the beginning of WW II by Andre Maurois, parts 1 - 4 of 10 of Traitor's Purse (9/7, 14, 21 & 28), an Albert Campion mystery by Margery Allingham, The Claim Jumpers (9/28), a short story by Ernest Haycox, and others. Covers by Robert O Reid, Ronald McLeod, E M Jackson (2), Arthur Crouch, Alan Foster, El Gilchrist, Vernon Grant & Lemuel Palmer. Condition issues include: 8/3 - the cover is loose & there are closed tears at the staples; 8/10 - soiling at the left of the back cover with light edge wear and a small chip at the bottom left; 8//17 - light edge wear to the front cover with a small soil spot at the lower left, a light soil spot to the fore edge of pages 3 - 7; 8/24 - a small chip at the bottom of the front cover and soil spots to the fore edge of the front cover through page 13; 8/31 - no significant issues; 9/7 - soil along the spine and bottom edge of the front cover, wear at the bottom corner through page 6, soil spots to the upper right of the back cover; 9/14 - no significant issues; 9/21 - browning along the bottom edge of the front cover with soil spots at the lower left; and 9/28 - light fading & browning to the edges of the front cover & a small hole at the bottom right. A good to very good set with a complete Hercule Poirot mystery and fiction installments and stories by a prominent and collectible authors and numerous period WW II stories & ads. A heavy, oversize set that will require additional postage.

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Collier's The National Weekly August 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 and September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 1940 The Patriotic Murders (One, Two, Buckle My Shoe or An Overdose of Death), A Girl Must be Sure, What Happened to France, Traitor's Purse (The Sabotage Murder Mystery), The Claim Jumpers, and others

Editor

P F Collier & Sons, Springfield, Ohio

Fecha de publicación

1940

Encuadernación

Stapled

Ilustrador

Robert O Reid, Ronald McLeod, E M Jackson (2), Arthur Crouch, Alan Foster, El Gilchrist, Vernon Grant & Lemuel Palmer (covers)

Edición

First Edition

Estado

Good - Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

No Jacket

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