Georges Simenon Nigel Ryan (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This book has faint wear on covers and is like new inside. Please note this is the picture of the book you are buying as we do not use stock photos.All our books are shipped from Victoria, Australia. Further inquiries are welcome.

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. 1 Kg.…

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. 1 Kg.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-library copy of the first UK edition, translated by Nigel Ryan. The boards have small tape marks at the top and bottom of the front panel, slight fading to the edges and slight bumping to the corners. There is a spine lean. Page edges are browned. The endpapers are browned with heavy vertical tape marks to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. The front endpapers have also been reinforced along the hinge with white tape. Library stamps to the copyright page and a small circular library stamp to the last page of the text. Pages are browned with staining in a number of places through the book. Price clipped jacket has a tape mark along the right edge of the front inside flap, chipping to the bottom corners, some edge wear and fading to the rear panel. It has also had a thin piece snipped from the top of the front flap and has been blind stamped on the front panel by the Library. Cover design by David Knight. First printing. Knight, David (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. English language. Paperback. FRONT END PAPER HAS BEEN REMOVED. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F19:: -- Original Title: Mon Ami Maigret.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club. Book Club Hardback in Jacket 1968. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Jacket front has a minor rub. JACKET HAS EDGE WEAR & A FEW SHORT TEARS. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F22.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1960 1st reprint thus. Green Crime Penguin no 1363. Condition: G. Cover clean and tidy. Light crease to rear. Binding a little fragile. Size: 7 x 4.5 inches / 18 x 11 cm. 141 pages. Weight: 120g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very good 1st impression in a near fine dustwrapper. Text block is darkened a bit with some [neutralized] foxing to the top edge. There is darkening/offsetting to prelims and the lower corners are lightly bumped. Some light diagonal creasing to the top of the front flap. Translated from the French by Nigel Ryan. Robin Jacques (illustrator).…

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.…

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. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

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).…

unknown_binding. Condition: Good. First edition. With dust jacket.

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. …

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).…