There clearly have been attempts in the past to repair the dust wrapper with non-archival tape
to correct an inadvertent error (which was corrected in the press for the second printing)
Illustrated by the author
Small penned inscription to front free endpaper with further pencil ones to front paste-down and verso of front endpaper
The Secret and Other Stories Agatha Christie There clearly have been attemptsMilne, A. A. The Secret and Other Stories. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Limited, Numbered Edition. Hardcover, Octavo, 70 pp. Signed by the author to half title page. No. 117 of 742 copies. A good copy, binding square and firm, with a little wear and crushing to spine tips and corners, and some foxing to the closed text block. With pages clean and uninscribed, with heavy foxing to prelims and sporadically throughout, and some tape marks to front