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

Agatha Christie, Frederick Nebel, Andre Maurois, Margery Allingham, Ernest Haycox and others

Edité par P F Collier & Sons, Springfield, Ohio, 1940

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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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: 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
• Éditeur: P F Collier & Sons, Springfield, Ohio
• Date de parution: 1940
• Reliure: Stapled
• Illustrateur: Robert O Reid, Ronald McLeod, E M Jackson (2), Arthur Crouch, Alan Foster, El Gilchrist, Vernon Grant & Lemuel Palmer (covers)
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Good - Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket