SIMENON, Georges (1903-1989)Biblio.com
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73111London: Hamish Hamilton 1956. Suspense novella FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.254 2 blank. Publisher's blue cloth gilt titles to spine pictorial dust-jacket designed by Dick Hart priced 13/6. Contents clean. Ink note to endpaper. Jacket is fresh but for the usual sunned spine. Two contrasting intrigues one rather squalid set in a lodging house of suspicious tenants the other rather uplifting described as one of the happiest Simenon has told. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956 unknown
1956355490725738London: Hamish Hamilton 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in publisher's price-clipped and re-priced dustwrapper stamped 7/6 NET to the inside flap. pp254. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine illustrated dustwrapper designed by Dick Hart. A slither of fading at the base of the spine otherwise a near fine bright and clean copy with no inscriptions. The price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly faded to the spine with just a touch of wear at the spine tips. Unusually the spine although faded to a lighter hue is brighter than normally seen. A bright copy of a quite uncommon book. Photographs/scans available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
198925030201Hamish Hamilton UK 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 154 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hamish Hamilton UK 1989. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Walter J. Higgins has all the right requirements to be admitted into the local country club but when he is denied membership his childhood wounds and painful secrets haunt him again and he seeks to alleviate his suffering through revenge. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0241122732. ISBN/EAN: 9780241122730. Inventory No: 25030201. 9780241122730 Hamish Hamilton hardcover
0151694753.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1988355490717535London: Hamish Hamilton 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's orange boards with gilt spine lettering. The page block edges lightly toned to the page block due to the poor quality of paper used otherwise a fine copy in like D/W. A very nice copy indeed. Inexplicably uncommon. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
1971WRCLIT84300New York: Helen & Kurt Wolff / Harcourt. 1971. Large quarto 28 x 21.5 cm. House logo wrapper printed label. Uncorrected page proofs of the first US edition of this translation by Jean Stewart. Filing label across lower edge otherwise about fine. Helen & Kurt Wolff / Harcourt... unknown books
1970256515London: Hamish Hamilton 1970. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Transl. from the French. d.w. London: Hamish Hamilton 1970. First English Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Hamish Hamilton unknown books
19712304379New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small tear along top edge of front jacket panel jacket edges lightly bumped jacket faintly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 183 pp. "Lecoin a man of powerful physique is "the rich man" of a French fishermen's village. Not only does he own like the others mussel and oyster beds he also carries on a flourishing trade with his two trucks. He dominates his fellow villagers as much by his money as by his size. And behind him looms his faithful watchdog Doudou a deaf-mute ready to be killed--and to kill-for him. Lecoin is married to a woman above his station whom he has made into a capable assistant. Together they devot their lives to work and profit. Then one day Lecoin's wife hires a servant girl an orphan who has been misused by her previous employer. The prosperous and peaceful routine of Lecoin's life is shattered by a ground swell of emotion and its chain of consequences."--Front jacket flap Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
69714London: Hamish Hamilton 1971. Psychological drama FIRST UK EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.150; 2 blank. In publisher's plum cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Bernard Higton price at £1.30. Simple design shows a plate of oysters! Contents clean jacket crisp and with one tear to upper. A fine copy. The human drama of a wealthy oyster-farmer. Trapped in a loveless marriage this pitiful man turns to alcohol and prostitutes and harbours a shameful obsession with his young housemaid Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 2002 Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection p363-5 1976. Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99 115. 1972. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971 unknown
73112London: Hamish Hamilton 1971. Psychological drama FIRST UK EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.150 2 blank. In publisher's plum cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Bernard Higton price at £1.30. Simple design shows a plate of oysters! Contents clean. Near fine in a slightly edge-worn wrapper. The human drama of a wealthy oyster-farmer. Trapped in a loveless marriage this pitiful man turns to alcohol and prostitutes and harbours a shameful obsession with his young housemaid. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 2002 Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection p363-5 1976. Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99 115. 1972. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971 unknown
1971355490725798London: Hamish Hamilton 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced £1.30 to the inside flap. pp150. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine illustrated photographic-style dustwrapper designed by Bernard Higton. A tiny slither of fading at the base of the spine and the lightest of foxing to the top and fore edges otherwise a fine copy in like dustwrapper minutely rubbed at the base of the spine. A very nice copy indeed. Photographs/scans available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
75119New York NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. Intrigue SIGNED FIRST US EDITION stated. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.iv; 183; 5 blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine pictorial dust-jacket designed by Wendell Minor priced at $5.95 to front flap. With autograph of Georges Simenon to the title page dated 1973. Contents clean jacket is fresh. The human drama of a wealthy oyster-farmer. Trapped in a loveless marriage this pitiful man turns to alcohol and prostitutes and harbours a shameful obsession with his young housemaid. Belgian writer Simenon was an Americanophile; during the 40s and 50s he lived in Arizona California and Connecticut; two of his children were born in America and he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. In later years he returned to Europe but maintained ties with the U.S. visiting on several occasions. Signed American editions are therefore more accessible than their British counterparts. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971 unknown
0151771626.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1971Q-0151771626Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harcourt Brace Jovanovich paperback
0151759804.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0241111706.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1984105982New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. It is 1947 and Inspector Maigret is called to a small town in the south of France to investigate the brutal murder of a young girl. The town is gripped by fear and suspicion and no one seems willing to speak out. As Maigret probes deeper into the girl's life he uncovers a web of secrets and lies. With stunning clarity Simenon brings to life the dark side of small-town life in the 1940s and the tangled web of secrets and lies that can lead to murder.; 8vo; $6.50 . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
67550New York: Doubleday 1973. Thriller collection FIRST EDITION thus. A Book Club-only publication. Two volumes containing Ian Fleming's 1963 James Bond novella. Octavo 22 x 14cm pp.463; 536. Bound in publisher's red and yellow cloth hardcovers illustrated dust-jackets. Near fine in wrappers which are gently toned to the spine. Also includes Christie's novel Endless Night Simenon's Stan The Killer as well as works by Daphne DuMaurier Margery Allingham John D. MacDonald Ross MacDonald and Truman Capote. From the comprehensive Ian Fleming bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert with his pencilled ownership. Gilbert A14b 'Anthology Appearances' p.464. New York: Doubleday, 1973 unknown
196925030136Hamish Hamilton UK 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 191 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hamish Hamilton UK 1969. Second Printing. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chips and/or tears. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Edges of pages are lightly browned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0241016665. ISBN/EAN: 9780241016664. Inventory No: 25030136. 9780241016664 Hamish Hamilton hardcover
66062New York NY: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1969. Crime Mystery FIRST US EDITION. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.4; 182; 4 blank. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt and black to spine russet endpapers dust-jacket priced at $4.95. A clean fine copy of the book in a very good jacket with some small chips and rubs slightly sunned to spine. First published in French in 1968 and published in this English translation in 1969. New York, NY: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969 unknown
73126London: Hamish Hamilton 1969. Crime novel FIRST UK EDITION first impression translated from the French by Lyn Moir. Octavo 19 x 14cm pp.191 1. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Michael Dempsey priced at 18s. Contents clean no ink names. Trivial handling. A fine copy. A domestic murder-mystery first published in French in 1968 and published in this English translation in 1969. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969 unknown
1969355490725792London: Hamish Hamilton 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced 18s net to the inside flap. pp191. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine illustrated dustwrapper designed by Michael Dempsey. Boards really bright and clean. No inscriptions. A near fine or better copy just a slither of fading to the spine tips and a touch of foxing to the top edge in like dustwrapper. A very nice copy indeed. Further photographs available upon request. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
0241016665.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1969501507New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected galley proof printed rectos only. Tall octavo. Printed red wrappers with affixed publisher's information label. Well-thumbed modest shallow chip at top of the front panel but a sound very good example. Scarce in this format. Harcourt, Brace & World unknown
Q-0241016665Harcourt Brace 1969. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harcourt, Brace, 1969 hardcover
