CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976). Cat Among the Pigeons. London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1959.

First edition in a very good dust-jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed in the month before publication by the author to her secretary, amanuensis and close friend Charlotte 'Carlo' Fisher: 'Carlo from Agatha Oct. 1959'. This book was officially published on 2 November. Hubin p. 79.

Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black (slight spotting to endpapers and edges, spine sunned and a little marked); original dust-jacket supplied from another copy with photographic portrait of the author on the lower panel captioned 'Agatha Christie | The Queen of Crime' (chipped at ends of spine and folds, extremities and lower panel rubbed and dust-stained). Provenance: Charlotte 'Carlo' Fisher (1895-1976, secretary, amanuensis and close friend of Agatha Christie; presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper, and with Fisher’s posthumous book label).