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197958188New York And London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1979. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151655898 . A Fine first Printing of the First American Edition housed in an equally lovely dust-jacket; is the story of a man named Jean who has retired from the world of nightclubs and dives. He spends his days gardening and watching old movies. One day he is visited by a mysterious woman who tells him that he has been chosen to participate in a contest to find the best nightclub in the world. He is asked to leave his home and travel to different clubs around the world to find out which one is the best. Along the way he meets interesting people and experiences exciting adventures.This novel is a fascinating exploration of the world of nightclubs and the people who frequent them. It is an entertaining and suspenseful read that will leave you wanting more.; 8vo; 175 pages . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
1979355490725217London: Hamish Hamilton 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in dustwrapper. pp.144. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Photographic dustwrapper designed by Beverley LeBarrow priced at £4.95 to the inside flap. Boards bright and clean. No inscriptions. Contents clean and tidy. There is a tiny bit of loss to the top right-hand corner of the front free end-paper possibly a production fault. Overall a VG copy. The dustwrapper is also in VG condition its only minor fault being some pale foxing spots to the front flap. There is no fading to the pink spine lettering. A nice copy. Quite uncommon in our experience. Further photographs available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
1968165364London: Hamish Hamilton 1968. First UK Edition.<br /> <br /> Very Good plus in a Good dust jacket. Jacket has an annotation in manuscript ink on the front flap amending the price and a dampstain at the heel. Hamish Hamilton unknown
1968355490725789London: Hamish Hamilton 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in dustwrapper. pp.158. Bound in publisher's grey cloth with silver titles to spine. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Jillian Willett. Boards bright and clean. No inscriptions. Top edge a little foxed otherwise a near fine copy in a VG dustwrapper which is complete but a bit rubbed. Uncommon. A nice copy. Further photographs available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
1959355490725203London: Hamish Hamilton 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in dustwrapper. pp.191. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A gift inscription to the front free end-paper. A near fine copy in like dustwrapper with a large price-clip to the inside flap and a slightly toned spine. The rear panel is clean and bright. A nice copy of one of the rarer Simon first editions from the 1950s. Further photographs available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
74473London: Hamish Hamilton 1959. Murder mystery FIRST UK EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.191; 1 blank. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Peter Edwards. Contents clean neat ink name/date to endpaper jacket with some light wear and soiling flap is clipped and re-priced by the publisher at 12/6. A corpse is found near a railway wayside halt. Assumed to have fallen from the overnight train sightings from the station keeper would suggest otherwise. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959 unknown
1959355490725749London: Hamish Hamilton 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in price-clipped and re-priced dustwrapper. pp.191; 1 Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Peter Edwards. Spine tips bruised and a couple of tiny bumps to the boards otherwise a near fine copy in like dustwrapper 12s 6d net with a small rust mark to the back panel. Further photographs available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
1963109675Penguin Books 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Penguin Books paperback
MA03A-07111Harcourt Brace & World Inc. NY. Collectible - Good. New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1968. 1st edition. 8vo. 148pp. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket soiled and slightly dampstained. Some light soiling inside. suspense Inquire if you need further information. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., NY unknown
DADAX014139479XPenguin 2015-08-25. Reprint. paperback. New. 5.12x0.45x7.69. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Penguin paperback
1957593355Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Jacket art by Jack Keats. Translated by Nigel Ryan. Slight toning on flyleaves faint spotting on front board top corner lightly bumped very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears small stains and an interior tape repair. Doubleday / Crime Club hardcover
20102080502106406047Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2010. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 237p Kawade Shobo Shinsha paperback
1965355490725775London: Hamish Hamilton 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced 15s net to the inside flap. pp160. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine dustwrapper designed by Youngman Carter. A near fine or better copy in like dustwrapper with none of the usual fading to the fugitive red spine lettering with the back panel beautifully clean. A very nice copy indeed. Great cover art by Youngman Carter. Further photographs available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
75289New York NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989. Intrigue FIRST US EDITION stated. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.vi; 169; 1 blank. Publisher's green cloth with copper titles to spine pictorial dust-jacket designed by Paul Bacon priced at $16.95 to front flap. Contents clean jacket is fresh. One of Simenon's human dramas being the tragic story of a successful family man now fallen on hard times friendless and working as a bookshop assistant run by a former sex worker accompanied by his rescued stray dog Bib. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 unknown
199273166AB1992. First Edition. London Bloomsbury 1992. 16 cm x 24 cm. 346 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The Death of a Childhood / The Boy Columnist / The Death of a Journalist / A Certain Idea of France / The Commissioner for Refugees / Muddle Fear Treachery and Deceit / The Trap Shuts / Shallow Rock Farm / The Act of Hate / The Man in the Glass Cage / etc. hardcover
1946GB0026BVZD2I5N00Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
SE-JR84-SIPFMass Market Paperback. Very Good. paperback
20051-1590171497New York Review of Books 2005. Paperback. New. translation edition. 203 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. New York Review of Books paperback
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
194657068NY: Reynal & Hitchcock. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth. 1st US edition. Spine ends worn points lightly bumped. Board joints are foxed. Page edges and DJ back panel are toned. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is worn along edges and spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195 pages . Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
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
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
1590171497.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
DADAX0241258553Penguin 2017-10-17. 2150. paperback. New. 5.08x0.60x7.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Penguin paperback
1942355490721813London: Routledge 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's brown boards with black lettering to the spine. A touch of foxing to the top and fore edges otherwise a bright and clean book that is in near fine condition with no inscriptions. The dust wrapper is priced 7s 6d net to the inside flap as called for and is frayed/creased at the head of the spine with a tiny chip from the bottom right-hand corner of the spine. A much nicer copy than normally seen of this notoriously fragile early war-time Simenon. In our experience one of the scarcest titles in the Simenon canon. Scarce. Photographs/scans available upon request. Routledge hardcover
