NMLP P-043547 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley · W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. (London) — NOT Collins Crime Club · 1929
US first: Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club, Inc., Garden City, 1929 — 'First Edition' is stated on the copyright page, and note the inverted trap that Doubleday/Crime Club REMOVED the statement on later printings, so a copy without it is a reprint, not a first; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover, collating [x], 299, [3] pp. with a Crime Club statement on the penultimate leaf, and some copies carry a laid-in publisher's slip reading 'The Christmas Selection of the Crime Club Jury.' Both jackets should be priced jackets with the price present at the flap
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043547 for "The Poisoned Chocolates Case" by Anthony Berkeley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043547, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).