Maigret's Failure

by Georges Simenon, Daphne Woodward

£75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Detective novel FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.143; 1 . In publisher's red cloth with silver gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman Carter. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh, jacket with minor edge wear, remaining bright. Maigret wrestles with his conscience, as a loathsome fellow classmate requests his protection from racketeering. Item #74371

• Printing: first

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