georges simenon nigel ryan (9 Ergebnisse)

First Penguin Edition, Reprint. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Provenance; from the library of E. Isaacson with the owner's bookplate. Series; Penguin Books: 1419. Physical description; 140 pages. Subjects; Georges Simenon. French Fiction. Crime Fiction. 3 Kg.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Psychological thriller] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Youngman Carter, priced at 12/6. Contents and edges clean, lightly used jacket with neat tear at crown, spine gently toned. Near fine. A macabre tale in which malcontent Emile is planning to poison guests at his hotel high in the hills above Nice.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.186. Publisher's red cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Robin Jacques, priced 11/6. Contents clean, discreet name beneath flap, a few light marks to endpapers, jacket is worn, with chip/loss to rear panel, some smaller chips, tears at joints. An uncommon title. Tropical intrigue set in the South Sea Islands, featuring an unlikely trio comprising a dapper English Major, a hardened gangster, and a mysterious stowaway.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: VERY GOOD. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First English Edition. 186 pp. Red hardcovers, silver gilt spine lettering. Foxing, toned, corners bumped, a bit of edge wear, clean and unmarked otherwise. DJ toned, foxed, a few small chips and tears.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157; [3], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Fritz Wegner, clipped and repriced at 6s. Bookseller ticket to pastedown, ink names to free endpaper, a few marks to edges. Jacket rubbed to joints, some ships to extremities, sticker pulls to front panel. Good. Murder-mystery originally published in French in 1954, and first published in this translation in the UK in 1956. 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).

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman Carter priced at 12/6s. Contents clean, edges spotted. no ink names, jacket with some chips and tears, sunned to spine as usual. A scarce title. Maigret is called upon to apprehend a young hoodlum who holds up a nightclub with a toy gun; the arrest of this would-be gangster leads the Inspector to the more serious crime of murder. First published in French in 1951. 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).

First Edition. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168; [4], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half navy blue calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, sewn endbands. Contents clean and fresh, exterior as new. An excellent copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Maigret has his wallet lifted while standing on the bus, and the petty crime leads him to a complex murder case. A scarce mid-period Maigret mystery.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman Carter priced at 12/6s. Contents and edges clean, edges jacket lightly used with a few minor nicks to extremities, spine lettering a little sunned. Shows well. A scarce title. Maigret is called upon to apprehend a young hoodlum who holds up a nightclub with a toy gun; the arrest of this would-be gangster leads the Inspector to the more serious crime of murder. First published in French in 1951. 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).

unknown_binding. Zustand: Good. First edition. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.