Simenon georges

2002 · 25030172 — Crippen & Landru Publishers USA 2002. First Limitied Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Signed by translator. Hardcover. 181 pages. Signed by translator. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Crippen & Landru Publishers USA 2002. First Limitied Edition. This is the first edition in the English language. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for library ownership stamp and withdrawn from library stamp on title page. no other library stamps including pocket or borrowing stamps are present. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This copy is 290 of 350 numbered and signed limited editions. There is also an insert with photographs from the 1932 French edition which only came with the limited edition. SYNOPSIS: The detections of Monsieur Froget the "Examining Magistrate" are set among the people of a city the young Simenon knew well. As the translator Peter Schulman says in the introduction "it is a marginal Paris populated by society's losers who for one reason or another are brought down by a petty vice or a greedy aspiration that invariably leads to a bitter sense of failure in their lives; and of course a crime they hubristically think they can get away with. It is the lonely city within all levels of the Parisian mosaic; a Paris made up of eccentric individuals who all in some manner or another feel as though they have been hung out to dry on the fringes of society. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 1885941781. ISBN/EAN: 9781885941787. Inventory No: 25030172. 9781885941787 Crippen & Landru Publishers hardcover