Thursday, November 11, 2010

Red Arrow - Thirteen at Dinner

The first book published by Red Arrow Books is Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie, first published as Lord Edgware Dies in 1933 by the Scottish-British publisher Wm. Collins. The American edition with the new title was published New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933. 

Thirteen at Dinner is 288 pages long and is 111 mm (4 3/8") wide by 179 mm (7 1/16") tall, the same size as the early Penguins. The page collation is:

[1] half-title,
[2] BY THE SAME AUTHOR [list of seven books],
[3] title page,
[4] copyright page,
[5] about Red Arrow Books,
[6] blank,
[7-8] contents,
[9] dedication,
[10] blank,
11-283 Thirteen at Dinner,
[284-288] blank.

The copyright date is 1939.

There are variant covers: two text, a "Book Club" edition and an illustrated one. One text version has a red spine and back cover (see below), the other a brown spine and back cover.