Ten Little Niggers

This is a French's acting edition of Ten Little Niggers. It was first published in 1944 and first performed in 1943.

This copy has been used for at least two people, one who played General Mackenzie, and another named Russell Charles ...... ..... who preformed on the 16 December 1954 and played Blore.

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939 and first published by Penguin in 1958. his copy is a reprint from 1959.

Ten Little Niggers

First published 1939 and by Pan books in 1947. This is a 1950 reprint.

This copy made and printed in France

Ten men and women are invited to a lonely mansion on an island off the Devon coast by an unknown Mr. Owen, who fails to appear. Every one has something to hide...some past sin of which he or she is secretly ashamed. They assemble in an atmosphere of grim foreboding: in the centre of the dining-room they see a set of ten china nigger-boys. A voice suddenly announces the charge against each guest. The the first death occurs; and one by one these unhappy people meet their fate, exactly according to the old nursey-rhyme framed above each bedroom mantelpiece.

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939 and by Fontana books in 1963. This copy is the thirtyseventh impression, printed May 1983.

Ten strangers find themselves trapped in a lonely island mansion ff the Devon coast. Ten strangers who have nothing in common - except that each one guards a deadly secret.
Then the murderer strikes - and there are only nine. Then eight. Then seven. Then six. Then five. Then four. Then three...

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939 and by Pan in 1947. It was reprinted twice in 1950, and this copy was printed in 1951.

This copy made and printed in Paris, France.

Ten little nigger boys went out to dine:
One choken his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little nigger boys sat up very late:
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little nigger boys travelling in Devon:
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little nigger boys chopping up sticks:
One chopped himself in halves and then there were six...

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939, and this copy is the first issue in Fontana books, dated 1963.

10 people are invited to a fabulous mansion on Nigger Island off the coast of Devon. Though they all have something in their past which they wish to hide, they arrive hopefully and cheerfully on a glorious summer evening...But soon a series of extraordinary events take place...the island is suddenly bathed in a most sinister light...panic grips the visitors one by one.

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939 and first issued in Fontana paperbacks in 1963. The second impression was published in April 1964, and this copy is the third impression published March 1966.

Ten people are invited to a lonely house on Nigger Island, off the coast of Devon, by a host who fails to appear - and each of these ten English people has something to hide. It's a glorious summer evening when they arrive yet they all sense something odd about the island, something sinister.

Ten Little Niggers was renamed And Then There Were None, and there was a film made named Ten Little Indians. There was also a play made, which took one of these three names at various times in it's production.

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939, and in Fontana Books in 1963. This copy is the sixteeth impression, published in January 1973.

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939, and this edition printed in 1947. This copy was made and printed in France for Pan books whose address was still given in London. This was because of paper shortages during the war. In 1947 Pan reached an agreement with the Board of Trade which allowed them to actually print their books in Europe. In 1950 they went back to printing in the UK. The books would be shipped down the Seine from Paris and then up the Thames to Kingston.

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939. This copy doesn't have a date, but using titles of book mentioned as recently published, I guess that it was published in the early 1940s. The particular copy was printed in Australia.

The back cover features an advert for Kruschen Salts...!

And Then There Were None

First published in 1939 as 'Ten Little Niggers' . It was published in America in 1940 with the title 'And Then There Were None'. The 1985 Fontana edition was the first UK edition to have this less inflammatory title.

This copy was published in 1990 as part of Fontans's 'The Christie Collection'.

Ten strangers find themselves trapped in a lonely island mansion off the Devon coast. Ten strangers who have nothing in common - except that each one guards a deadly secret.
Then the murderer strikes - and there are only nine. Then eight. Then seven. Then six. Then five. Then four. Then three...

...And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None was first tried at the Wimbledon Theatre from 20 September 1943. On November 17 1943 it opened at the St James' Theatre and ran until 24 February 1944 when the theatre was bombed. It was transferred to the Cambridge Theatre and ran there from 29 February 1944 - 6 May 1944. It then went back to a restored St James' from 6 May 1944 - 1 July 1944.

This programme was from a Duke of York Theatre's production from about 1987 because the Director Kenneth Alan Taylor is know to have directed the play in 1986 and 1987.

It states that the first permonace of this particular production was at the Nottingham Playhouse on the 2 September 1987, and the first performance at Duke of York's Theatre on the 29 September 1987.