Dust Jacket has tiny bits of loss at top spine tips otherwise no chipping or tearing or creasing, slight wear to spine tips, hint of wear to front flap crease, hint of edge wear, hint of dust soiling to panels, slight spine sun fade, no scotch tape marks to flaps, no soiling or staining. Book has no creased page corners, nice small gift inscription dated 1931 to inside front board (inscription is in pencil so could be easily removed but as the inscription further dates the book to 1931 its probably best to leave it), no other former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, clean endpapers with no staining or tape residue, no foxing to pages, endpapers, or outer pages, slight age darkening/dust soiling to outer page edges, no lettering fading/wear to spine, no wear to board edges, hint of wear to board corners, shelf wear to spine tips, no soiling to cloth boards, no bumped board corners but faint crease to top right corner to rear board.

VERY DIFFICULT BOOK TO FIND IN ITS ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. NOTE - THIS PARTICULAR FORMAT (PRINTED IN THIN PAPERSTOCK) USING A 'SILHOUETTE' STYLE COVER ART WAS USED BY THE BODLEY HEAD IN 1930/1931 FOR A SERIES OF ITS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORKS (BUT ONLY THIS BOOK AND 'THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS' OF THE 6 AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BY THE BODLEY HEAD WERE EVER RELEASED IN THIS PARTICULAR FORMAT/EDITION). AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, published by UK publisher The Bodley Head/John Lane, copyright 1924, 1930 Printing (states 'First Published in 1924' and 'First Published in this series in 1930' on copyright page), red cloth boards with black art-deco design & black lettering to front board/spine.

The man in the brown suit