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Maigret in Society – George Simenon

Published by the Thriller Book Club, Charing Cross, London in collaboration with and in the same year as the Hamish Hamilton first.

Octavo, 160 pages, very good condition.

The 78-year-old Comte Armand de Saint-Hilaire is found dead. A former Ambassador to Rome. Washington and London. All his acquaintances are elderly and Maigret is given little to work on other than the discovery of letter which suggest a long-standing love for Princess de V_____. Strange goings on are exposed.

Maigret not out of his depth in High Society.

$35.00

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Maigret’s Pickpocket and Maigret and the Nahour Case– Georges Simenon

Translated from the French another double helping of Maigret published by the Companion Book Club in 1968. A first of type.

Octavo, 288 pages in very good condition.

Maigret has his wallet stolen on a bus .. the young offender telephone Maigret and a murder enquiry ensues. In Nahour a gambler is murdered and his wife, who has fled with her lover, is suspected.

Two different Maigret cases but with murder at the heart of each.

$35.00

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Maigret – Hesitates and Takes the Waters – Georges Simenon

Two classic short stories by Simenon in Paris and also out in the Vichy countryside – superb

First edition in this form published by The Companion Book Club in 1971 the individual editions being published in 1969 and 1970.

Octavo, 288 pages, page edges and end papers bright red. A very clean copy.

Maigret unsurpassed – a double helping.

$35.00

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Maigret in Court – Georges Simenon

Translated from the French of 1960, this edition by the Thriller Book Club, Charing Cross, London in conjunction with Hamish Hamilton. A first of type.

Octavo, 192 pages in very good condition.

Gaston Meurani is on trial and on first blush deserves to get off having been accused of the murder of his aunt and a little girl. Maigret convinced he is innocent. However, things come out in the trial that require a different type of justice. Intrigued?

Maigret has a moral viewpoint but how does it pan out?

$35.00

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Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife – Georges Simenon – First UK edition 1955

A first UK edition of an early Simenon published by Hamish Hamilton in 1955, the French equivalent being 1953.

Octavo, 160 pages, a little age and spots but not a bad copy for a sought after Maigret.

The burglar’s wife had a history with Maigret – she tried to spoil his arresting of her by taking her clothes off. This is years later when Loft is married to Sad Freddie a not very successful burglar. Sad Freddie comes across a dead body during one of his late night escaped and it all starts from there.

Early Maigret First Edition and the story of Lofty and Sad Freddie

$50.00

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La Symphonie Pastorale – Andre Gide.

Taking its name from Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the “Pastoral Symphony”, an interesting edition of Gide’s somewhat controversial novel. Here edited and presented with lengthy English language introductions and post novella notes by Magdalen College Oxford modern language expert M. Shackleton.

Published by Harrap, London in 1955. Small octavo, xxxv introduction (English); 69 pages novella (French) 7-88 pages notes (English). Frontispiece portrait of Gide looking thoughtful. Good condition, clean inside, green cloth covered boards a very trifle edge marked.

In short, a story about blindness although that’s a little trite. A pastor takes into his family a young blind girl to whom over time he displays interest and affection more than his wife believes satisfactory. The pastor’s son falls for the young girl but is refused by the father. The girl recovers her sight to realise that the pastor was an old infatuated man suffering from “moral blindness” and that she really loves the son … too late he has become a monk! Excuse our precis … it’s better than that.

An interesting book for the reader of French and those starting out …

Gide and his meaningful La Symphonie Pastoral … explained well by Shackleton .

$20.00

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