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A Collins Crime Club first is identified mainly by its binding and its dust jacket, which collectors should check against each other.
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Read the full guide to Collins Crime Club first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.
We have not yet confirmed the issue points that tell this first impression from later ones. Until we do, compare your copy's title page and copyright page with the publisher, place and year above: any later printing or edition statement means it is not this one.
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Values run from about £175 for a copy in lower grades to £250 for the best copies, depending on the printing and the condition of the book and jacket. Based on 3 recorded sales.
Collins Crime Club, London, in 1955, in hardback.
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