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1970Best.-Nr. 87047Paris: Presses de la Cité 1970. Fine. Presses de la Cité Paris 1970 16.50 x 25.50 cm broché First edition one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Presses de la Cité unknown
1955Best.-Nr. 90253Couverture souple illustrée. Non coupé.
1956Best.-Nr. 84498Couverture souple illustrée couleurs. Légères traces d'usage.
1968Best.-Nr. 22202New York: Tudor Publishing 1968. First Edition. Folio. 177 6 pp. Includes 66 reproductions of lithographs mostly in color plus 11 original full-page color lithographs made especially for this edition including frontis and cover. Preface by George Simenon. Compiled by Fernand Mourlot. Softcover with color illustrated dustjacket in publsher's slipcase. Previous owner bookplate else Fine copy. Splendid collection of works by the French figurative painter and printmaker famous for his anxiety-ridden images of angular figures and stark cityscapes. These were early works done when Buffet was in his 20s and 30s. Tudor Publishing unknown
Best.-Nr. 70737London: George Routledge and Sons Limited 1941. Detective thrillers FIRST UK EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 14cm pp.275; 1 blank. Publisher's pale blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8s to front flap. Contents and edges clean very faint ink name to endpaper South African bookseller ticket to pastedown with corresponding 'Overseas Edition' rubber stamp to flap. Covers bright and fresh but for area of darkening at foot of spine. Fragile jacket with some chips and losses to edges. Remains presentable. Two short stories featuring Inspector Jules Maigret; 'The Lock at Charenton' and 'Maigret Returns'. Not the prettiest copy but a perfectly serviceable example of a rare wartime Maigret no other UK copies with jacket are currently listed. London: George Routledge and Sons Limited, 1941 unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 126397Tudor 1968-01-01. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. New York NY: Tudor Publishing Company 1968. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Folio. Compiled by Fernand Mourlot preface by George Simenon. In original slipcase and acrylic jacket. Includes 66 reproductions of lithographs plus 11 original full-page lithographs made especially for this edition including frontis and jacket. Tight and unmarked with only light shelf wear to the slipcase. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Tudor paperback
1997Best.-Nr. SBBI-mon0000119950Distribooks Inc 1997. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Distribooks Inc hardcover
1953Best.-Nr. 135410London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1953. First UK edition third overall first impression inscribed "to Ralph this very first book written in a house I love and he loves "factuellement" G. Simenon Shadow Rock Farm Lakeville 1955" to front free endpaper. Most certainly Ralph Ingersoll 1900-1985 an American writer editor and publisher from whom Simenon bought Shadow Rock Farm in Lakeville Connecticut in 1950. The town became the background for his 1952 novel La Mort de Belle. A very good copy of one of Simenon's non-Maigret novels "a book of remarkable pity and understanding". Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth titles in red on spine. With dust jacket. Light discolouration to spine and boards edges. A very good copy in the bright dust jacket a few small tears and nicks to edges a little rubbed traces of a tape repair to bottom edge of front panel damp stain to verso of spine and front panel. hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 35833Paris: 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
1967Best.-Nr. 35833Paris: 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 books
1953Best.-Nr. 3114316New 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
1953Best.-Nr. 3114322New 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
1953Best.-Nr. 3114321New 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
1956Best.-Nr. 3114324New 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
1955Best.-Nr. 3114325New 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
1957Best.-Nr. 3114313New 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
1965Best.-Nr. 3114310New 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
1954Best.-Nr. 3114308New 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
1958Best.-Nr. 3114315New 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
1952Best.-Nr. 3114323New 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
1951Best.-Nr. 3114320New 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
1957Best.-Nr. 3114317New 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
1951Best.-Nr. 3114318New 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
1942Best.-Nr. 355490725715London: 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
1932Best.-Nr. 165220Paris: Arthème Fayard 1932. First French Edition preceding all others. Text and titles in French. 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. Queen's Quorum 85. Arthème Fayard unknown
