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New York: N.Y. / New Yorl: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940, 1st US Edition, First Printing ( true 1st Edition with this title ), 1940. ------------( 1st Printing of the First American Edition ---1st Edition with this title change ) ---hardcover, a very attractive Very Good example, beige cloth with reddish-orange lettering, tight and square, a very tiny bit of rubbing to tips, the faintest hint of fading to the spine of the book (see scan), a bit of fading to the upper edge of the text block red colour (see scan), there is a very faint hint of age darkening to the front exterior hinge gutter with a bit more age darkening to the exterior hinge gutter of the rear board, ink name and Noranda 1951 on front blank endpaper, ---this copy has a FINE facsimile dustjacket so this looks VERY NICE on the shelf, ---a genuine rarity especially in nice condition, later released as Ten Little Indians (with a UK edition preceding with the inappropriately chosen title of Ten Little N------), any image…

One of Agatha Christie's most famous works, 'And Then There Were None' narrates the story of ten strangers invited to a distant island under different pretenses. Methodically, they are killed off according to an old nursery rhyme. With no way to escape and no one else on the island, the survivors quickly realize that the murderer is among them.

The first edition will state 'First Published 1939' on the copyright page and the dust jacket will show the original price of 7s. 6d.