This is a movie magazine (10 pages) about Death on the Nile (Murder on the Nile in Dutch); with photos, storyline, and actor info. The movie tie-in is being advertised. Never seen anything like this; no idea how it was distributed or to whom. 🤷 Together a nice set for my Christie collection 😀

Look what I just found in a charity shop in Torquay! 😀. A beautiful facsimile edition of Murder on the Orient Express! With the bellyband and as new. A great souvenir to take home with me and read in the plane tomorrow after visiting lots of events at he @agathafestival.bsky.social this weekend!

Yesterday I arrived at #Torquay and today I went my to first event at the @agathafestival.bsky.social, John Curran's 'Agatha Christie & the Murder Game'. Of course it ended in me buying a book...😀. Later in Torre Abbey I took a look at Tom Adams great artwork. And there is even more to come today!

Wind and rain today in York, but still a great visit. Walked the walls and went to the minster of course. And York has great bookshops loke Criminally Good Book & took some souvenirs with me from Lucius Books #AgathaChristie

Day 2 in Yorkshire: no Christie but #Brontë! In #Haworth I visited the Brontë home where great novels were written! There was a very early Dutch edition of #JaneEyre on display (I think 1874? With still the name Currer Bell, Charlotte's pen name) and this little Penguin Archive is my souvenir!

On my first day in Yorkshire I visited Harrogate and of course I went to the Old Swan hotel where Agatha Christie stayed during here 'missing days' in 1926. Nearby Knaresborough is worth a visit too!

This will be my main book for the next 8 to 9 days, as I am visiting #Yorkshire for my vacation! After that, I am heading south to #Torquay to attend some events at the @agathafestival.bsky.social - I can't wait!

Although I've seen almost every Bond film (more than once 🙂), I'd never read or collected any of Ian Fleming's books. Perhaps these are a start: Casino Royale & Diamonds Are Forever. The books are in Dutch but have English titles (so iconic that translation is unnecessary...) #ianfleming #jamesbond

Found four more of these great #agathachristie paperbacks from the 90s with this retro covers!

Auction: letter From Agatha Christie (signed Mallowan) to Lady Stewart, it is from the sixties @christietime.bsky.social! She talks about houses and... taxes. Written on paper from a hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, it seems. @collectchristie.bsky.social www.catawiki.com/nl/l/9698212...

Some great books for my crime collection arrived today. Vintage Dutch paperbacks from the Prisma Detective Series. Beautiful covers from the 50s & 60s and famous authors like #JosephineTey #DorothySayers #NgaioMarsh #AndrewGarve and more. Nice for the summer evenings now and my holiday next month 😎✈️

This fantastic collector's item arrived last week. The 1st Fontana edition of Towards Zero with a Tom Adams cover; signed by the artist! This book was part of a special sale by @julesburt-yt.bsky.social and Georgie Adams (Tom's widow). All the ephemera included makes it extra special!

These are the only Mary Westmacott titles published in Dutch. Only one ed. in the 70s, so quite rare now. From left to right: A Daughter's a Daughter; Unfinished Portrait; The Burden. On the cover it says: 'MW known to everyone as Agatha Christie'. The covers are based on the USA Dell paperbacks.

Some nice 'Dutch' finds at the thrift store today. The very first Agatha Christie in Dutch! (Secret Adversary 1925); a movie tie in (nice hardcover of Ordeal by Innocence, 1985, with Donald Sutherland on the cover) and three Albatross paperbacks from 1947 with the jackets (all printed in Holland).

Back from a week in Norway (Oslo & Bergen); amazing cities and what a beautiful train ride in between! I found some nice souvenirs in Oslo (at Prismatic Pages & Cappelens Vorslag). One of the last Andrew Garve titles I was looking for and a few more vintage books! #AgathaChristie #Penguin #TomAdams

A very bookish Easter with markets in Wageningen en Bredevoort. Found some Christie/Westmacott, Dutch classics and international classics, crime and more! Memento Mori because I heard of it in the @christietime.bsky.social Christie/Spark episode. And I'll try a Dick Francis, new for me...

Had a short holiday in France (Lille & Roubaix) and brought home a nice souvenir: the facsimile edition of the 1st French edition of Styles. All early Christies were re-issued in this way a few years ago. Other photo: a real 1st edition of Cards on the Table (1939).

Some Collins Crime Club titles I added to my collection last month. Two of my favourite authors: Andrew Garve and Robert Barnard. Great crime and mystery/thriller fiction to read the coming weeks!

A nice week for my #AgathaChristie collection! I found the Greenway edition (1978) of Elephants Can Remember and added the 1st edition of While the Light Lasts, a short story collection with previously unpublished stories from 1997 (with a great Geoffrey Appleton cover). Scarce books (here in NL!)

After Agatha Christie, PD James is one of my favorite writers. I have added a number of first editions to my book collection. Beautiful, big books by faber&faber. Death of an Expert Witness (1977) has a nice bonus: stamps and stickers from her UK and international literary agents.

This is the scarcest Dutch #AgathaChristie 1st edition. Towards Zero ("The murderer wore blue" in Dutch) was an illegal publication by Schoonderbeek in 1948, for another publisher got the rights at the last moment. Almost all copies were destroyed. This one can be found in our National Library.

Last year I did some research in the Dutch Royal Library for early Dutch editions of #AgathaChristie. Sadly, I only found one with a jacket: The Mystery of the Blue Train. The cover design is the same as the English first edition and was published in the Netherlands by H.P. Leopold in 1929.

These postcards are the cheapest way to hold the pre-war #AgathaChristie covers in your hands and enjoy the design of classic titles. I found 7 in a second-hand bookshop. There are 100 in total, for sale as a 'Classic Book Covers' set. Something to look out for!