Maigret Takes a Room

by Georges Simenon, Nigel Ryan

$150 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. 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

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