Georges Simenon | The Patience of Maigret, 1939, first English edition

Georges Simenon

The Patience of Maigret. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1939

first English edition, 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, slight browning to endpapers, some minor soiling to binding, soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some loss, large tear to lower panel, adhesive tape repairs to reverse, some creases

The English translation of A Battle of Nerves and A Face for a Clue and introducing Inspector Maigret.

LITERATURE:

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE:

The Alexis Galanos Collection