Magnet Doom by Simenon Georges (15 results)

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.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. 1st UK edition. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (Detectives, Mystery).

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: 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.

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. 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. 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. First UK edition. First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. Overall a very good copy beyond some minor rubbing to extremities of jacket. Book.

dj. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

dj. First Edition. [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).…

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with just a touch of rubbing to the spine tips, and a small mark to the upper board. The contents, with just a little spotting to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper, which has couple of tiny closed tears at the spine folds to, and a couple of ink marks to the rear panel. First published in Paris in 1945, the novel later formed the basis for the 1963 French film noir 'L'Aîné des Ferchaux'), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hard Cover. 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.…

dj. First Edition. [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). …

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. [vi], 279, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few littlee spots to edges, dustjacket in excellent shape, a touch of rubbing nd a modicum of fading to the backstrip panel, tiny mark to fore-margin of front panel, nick at hed and chip at foot of rear panel, very good.…