The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie. First American Edition. For Sale For Sale

The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie

First American edition, first printing of Christie’s fourth novel and the first to introduce secret service agent Colonel Johnny Race. Lacking the rare original dust jacket, but married to a strikingly nice dust jacket from the 1931 American printing. Housed in a custom wooden slipcase. 

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Publisher’s original tan cloth, lettered in dark brown; pp. (viii), 275, [5]. An about near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, minor rubbing to boards with a touch of thumb soiling. Internally quite clean and fine with just a hint of offsetting to endpapers. Jacket remains bright and vibrant with the slightest traces of shelfwear. A very presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.