Winner of the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers for its lasting impact
5 lines up - "l" and "f" missing or not fully printed in "himself"
"Peasants" (Constance Garnett)
Small penned inscription to front free endpaper with further pencil ones to front paste-down and verso of front endpaper
a small closed tear to rear panel
The Secret and Other Stories Agatha Christie Winner of the Booker PrizeMilne, A. A. The Secret and Other Stories. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Limited, Numbered Edition. Hardcover, Octavo, 70 pp. Signed by the author to half title page. No. 117 of 742 copies. A good copy, binding square and firm, with a little wear and crushing to spine tips and corners, and some foxing to the closed text block. With pages clean and uninscribed, with heavy foxing to prelims and sporadically throughout, and some tape marks to front