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195187790Presses de la Cité | Paris 1951 | 12 x 18.50 cm | broché
194930026Editions Arthème Fayard 1932. In-12 broché de 250 pages au format 19 x 12 cm. Couvertures crème avec titre imprimé. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur frais. Un des 50 exemplaires tiré sur Vélin pur fil Lafuma, non justifiés. Seul grand papier. Edition originale de juillet 1932. Rare, surtout dans un tel état de fraicheur, proche du neuf.
1942355490725713London: Routledge 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Gilbert Stuart translated by: In Two Latitudes London: Routledge 1942. First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced 8s. net to the inside flap and stamped adjacent thereto OVERSEAS EDITION. Publisher's blue boards with black lettering to the spine. Boards bright and clean apart from fading at the spine tips matching chipping in the dustwrapper. There is a former owner's name and contemporary date to the front paste-down. A tiny bookseller stamp to the rear free end-paper: "This Book is from Thackor & Co. Ltd. Bombay". Very clean interior. No foxing. Overall very good indeed. The very good dustwrapper has shallow chipping at the head and tail of the spine but is otherwise a fairly attractive example. "In Two Latitudes" is one of the scarcest wartime Simenon first editions the dustwrapper of which was made from very poor quality paper hence why it never turns up in really fine condition. A fragile and scarce war-time production. Uncommon. No restoration. Contains two novels: The Mystery of the Polarlys and The Tropic Moon. Further photographs available upon request. Routledge hardcover
70738London: George Routledge and Sons Limited 1942. Murder mystery FIRST UK EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 14cm pp.199; 1 blank. Publisher's russet cloth lettered in black illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean no inscriptions wrapper with some chips and tears rubbed to spine rather clumsy price clip to flap. Very good. Rare in jacket. Suspenseful thriller in which a pretty cabaret dancer comes to an untimely end in an Amsterdam hotel and her acquaintance the placid chess-playing Dutchman is plunged into a series of narrow escapes in a real-life chess-game with the Surete Generale of Paris. London: George Routledge and Sons Limited, 1942 unknown
1967N - 2025 - 117<p>Fernand Mourlot and Georges Simenon. Bernard Buffet: Lithographs 1952–1966.<br />New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1967.<br />Comprehensive catalogue of Bernard Buffet's lithographic work from 1952 to 1966 illustrated with eleven full-page original color lithographs including the lithographic front cover.<br />Complete and in very good condition with light wear along the spine of the wrapper.<br />Dimensions: 32 × 24 cm.</p> Tudor Publishing Company
1942355490725715London: Routledge 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Gilbert Stuart translated by: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By London: George Routledge and Sons Limited 1942. First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced 7s 6d net over-printed OVERSEAS EDITION. pp.199. Publisher's russet cloth lettered in black to the spine. A slither of fading at the spine tips matching wear in the dustwrapper spine tips bruised and a bookseller's ticket to the front paste-down. No inscriptions. A solid VG copy. The very good dustwrapper has minor loss at the spine ends not affecting any letter and a bit of further wear and associated creasing at the top left and right hand corner of the front panel. A notoriously fragile dustwrapper produced to war-time standards. Uncommon. A psychological crime novel. The story follows Kees Popinga a conventional and orderly Dutch accountant in Gronigen whose stable existence shatters upon discovering that his employer has gone bankrupt leading him to impulsively flee his family head to Paris and descend into a spree of deception theft and murder as he desperately seeks to re-invent himself. The basis for the 1952 British movie directed by Harold Spence starring Claude Rains as Popinga which transposes the action to London but retains the novel's core exploration of moral collapse. Further photographs available upon request. Routledge hardcover
1932165220Paris: Arthème Fayard 1932. First French Edition preceding all others. Text and titles in French. <br /> <br /> Very Good in perfect-bound photographically illustrated wrappers. Book is square but with creasing to the spine panel and a small chip at the top left corner of the front wrapper. Rare. <br /> <br /> Queen's Quorum 85. Arthème Fayard unknown
19463117945New York: Reynal and Hitchcock. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 195pp One of Simenon's most highly regarded novels. A remarkably nice copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Reynal and Hitchcock hardcover
196735833Paris: A.C. Mazo 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. Softcover. A stunning catalogue of famed French artist Bernard Buffet's lithographs created in the years 1952-1966. These were early works done when Buffet was in his 20s and 30s. There are eleven original lithographs including the cover and the frontispiece. There are color reproductions of 66 additional lithographs from that period. Printed in July 1967 on the presses of Mourlot of Paris. Printed on paper from Acropole des Papeteries de Renage with Union type. There were also 125 numbered copies with two additional lithographs signed by Buffet. Softcover with illustrated dust jacket with original lithograph. Slight rippling caused by mylar clear protective cover. Interior pages are clean and bright. . Near fine condition. Measures 9.5 x 12.25 inches.177 pages. ART/071822. A.C. Mazo unknown
19533114316New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his publisher Kurt Enoch president of New American Library. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. First rate association and rare as such. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 144 pages . Signet. paperback
19533114322New York: Signet. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch on title page. Close to fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Hint of creasing at upper tip of text. A remarkable association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 168 pages . Signet. paperback
19533114321New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch on front end-paper. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. A first rate association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 144 pages . Signet. paperback
19563114324New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch on front end-paper. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. A superb association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 127 pages . Signet. paperback
19553114325New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch on title page. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. An outstanding association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 127 pages . Signet. paperback
19573114313New York: Signet. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his American paperback publisher Kurt Enoch on front end-paper. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Trace of light shelf-wear at spine. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Blurb on cover reads- "Murder opened his eyes to his wayward daughter's sins." Superb association copy. ; 4 1/2" X 7" ; 128 pages . Signet. paperback
19653114310New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in 1966 by Georges Simenon to his American paperback publisher Kurt Enoch on front end-paper. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Simenon inscriptions bearing any notable associations in his English language editions are uncommon. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 125 pages . Signet. paperback
19543114308New York: Signet. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his publisher Kurt Enoch on title page. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Paper brittle with a shallow chip at fore edge of end-paper & tiny chip at top edge. Short nick at foreedge of title page. The cover blurb reads - "Can a man escape his guilty past" Simenon inscriptions are uncommon in English language editions. Rarer still presented to his publisher. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 127 pages . Signet. paperback
19583114315New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch president of New American Library. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. A notable association. The blurb reads- "Unable to love he was driven by an insane desire to kill." ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 127 pages . Signet. paperback
19523114323New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch on title page. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Blurb on front cover reads - "What drives a man to Murder" A notable association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 144 pages . Signet. paperback
19513114320New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in 1952 by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch on dedication page. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. A significant association. ; 4 1/2" X 7" . Signet. paperback
19573114317New York: Signet. Fine with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Georges Simenon to his American publisher Kurt Enoch president of New American Library. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. A remarkable association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 128 pages . Signet. paperback
19513114318New York: Signet. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American paperback edition. Precedes U. K. INSCRIBED & dated by Georges Simenon in year of publication to his American publisher Kurt Enoch president of New American Library. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Mild trace of shelf-wear at spine. A notable association. ; 4 1/2" X 7"; 191 pages . Signet. paperback
195684498Couverture souple illustrée couleurs. Légères traces d'usage.
193286377Paris: A. Fayard & Cie 1932. Fine. A. Fayard & Cie Paris 1932 12 x 19 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Photographic cover. Inevitable creases and small corner losses to spine and boards given the fragility of this popular edition. In 1959 Jean Delannoy masterfully adapted this work for cinema with Jean Gabin Marcel Auclair Paul Frankeur Robert Hirsch in the main roles and with dialogue by Michel Audiard. Rare. A. Fayard & Cie hardcover
195591219Cannes: s. n. 1955. Fine. s. n. Cannes 1955 14.6 x 19.6 cm Une feuille Autograph letter signed and dated September 26 1955 by Georges Simenon addressed from Cannes to André David. 18 lines in black ink on one leaf bearing his American address in Lakeville Connecticut. Mailing fold as usual. Georges Simenon apologizes for his delayed response: ""mais j'étais en plein roman. Parbleu ! si je me souviens de vous !"" and indicates his upcoming availability to his correspondent even specifying his future address in Cannes. He authorizes André David's project to adapt his novel ""Maigret et la Grande Perche"" for the screen while setting his terms: ""vous pouvez travailler sur La Grande Perche mais bien entendu mon acceptation ne peut dépendre que du résultat duquel d'ailleurs je ne doute pas. Tenez-moi au courant."" s. n. unknown