Magnet Doom by Simenon Georges (15 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Sax (Sachs, Rudolph Michael) (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. First published in the UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd in 1948. Reading creasing to the spine with light chipping at the top and bottom and some edge rubbing. The front cover has a little browning and the back cover has a one inch crease to the top left corner and some brown spotting over the surface but otherwise only light edge and surface wear to the covers. Quite heavy browning to the page edges with some dark spotting to the top edges and one inch creases to the top corners of the final four pages. The pages are browned but otherwise unmarked. Cover illlustration by Sax. First printing.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Paperback. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. In black cloth with dulled gilt to spine. Bump to top corner with some faint spotting to top of rear board and light tilt to spine. Top page ends darkened. Jacket is unclipped (9s. 6d. Net) with small chips and short tears at corners and spine ends. Tape repair to top of spine on inside. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. slightly cocked, light bump to bottom edge spine, some light staining to cover, pos on fep, some light staining to edges.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very Good small octavo 279pp., Novel of the Congo Basin. Some chipping to dust jacket o/w nice copy in bright tan cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First English Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 279pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, missing ffep, lettering faded to spine. (54/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st UK Edition. Edges are foxed. Head and tail of spine rubbed, bumped and worn. Endpapers and title pages are lightly foxed. Some other pages throughout have stains, particularly towards the edges, and very light foxing. Some pages in the book have minor creases. Pages are discoloured, due to age. Hinge separating at title page, and between pages 26-27, and some other segments. Spine and boards are slightly rubbed and worn, with minor stains. Book has lean. Else this book is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. Slight exterior soil/insecting. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1949). First UK Edition. pp279. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dustwrapper designed by MB. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A tiny bump to the bottom right-hand corner of the front board otherwise a fine copy (without inscriptions) in a VG first issue dustwrapper priced 9s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The dustwrapper is faded yellow to the spine with a slither of loss at the spine tips with a couple of tears and minor loss at the head of the spine. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1949). First UK Edition. pp279. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dustwrapper designed by MB. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A dusty top edge otherwise a VG++ copy. No inscriptions. In the first issue dustwrapper priced 9s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The VG dustwrapper has some fading to the spine (from orange to yellow) and a touch of edge wear to the extremities. A quite uncommon book. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. 279 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: George Routledge & Sons, UK, 1948. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In an apartment in Faubourg Saint-Honore that has seen better days, Dominique, the daughter of a general, is busy mending her dress. It is hot. She sits in her slip as she sews and listens to the noises of the city, listens to the scratchy tango the couple in the other room, her boarders, play on the gramophone while they make love. Sometimes Dominique cannot resist looking through the keyhole, though it hurts her and makes her giddy. In three months she will be forty. All the shutters across the street are wide open. Dominique watches the Rouets. She follows their gestures, the movements of their lips. It is a long story without words, and she knows the smallest episodes of it. Then one day she sees Monsieur Rouet in his bed gasp his last while in the next room Antoinette, his wife, stands holding the medicine, her hand on the doorknob. With his usual mastery Georges Simenon describes the day-to-day suffering of a woman who lives alone and only through the lives of others. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 25030197.

First UK Edition. Basis for the 1963 Jean-Pierre Melville film "L'aîné des Ferchaux," starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Vanel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Text block moderately foxed. Jacket spine and flap folds lightly toned. Otherwise a bright and only lightly worn copy.

[Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.279. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by MB, priced at 9/6. A fine copy of the book in a very good jacket, toned to spine with one chip to crown and a nick to the foot of spine. 'A story of murder and scandal by a master of criminal psychology' (from the blurb of the Pan paperback edition). Basis for the 1963 French noir film Magnet of Doom [a.k.a. An Honorable Young Man] directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. 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).

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1949). First UK Edition. pp279. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dustwrapper designed by MB. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A fine copy (without inscriptions) in a price-clipped first issue dustwrapper which appears to be 2.5 mm short to the top edge. The dustwrapper is a particularly nice example. Photographs/scans available upon request.

[Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.279. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by MB, priced at 9/6. A fine copy of the book in a near fine jacket, with some minor fade/toning to spine. Shows well. 'A story of murder and scandal by a master of criminal psychology' (from the blurb of the Pan paperback edition). Basis for the 1963 French noir film Magnet of Doom [a.k.a. An Honorable Young Man] directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. 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).