The Opener of the Way Agatha Christie first impression of the author's

first impression of the author's memoir of her early life

Full white buckram with a design in dark red by Cox

Joan Oates

16 full-page monochrome line drawings by Raffaele Scorzelli who signed the book

Near-fine copy with just a very small

The Opener of the Way Agatha Christie first impression of the author'sThe Opener of the Way, by Robert Bloch. Sauk City: Arkham Press, 1945. First edition, first printing; in original, unclipped dust wrapper. Publisher's original black cloth boards, gold lettering to spine; with dust jacket. Good book with binding square and secure, pages largely clean with the exception of penned inscriptions to front paste down and free endpaper. Externally bumped to extremities with covers slightly marked, foxing and tanning to edges