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Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
by SIMENON, GEORGES
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0241899877
- ISBN 13
- 9780241899878
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First UK edition. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Spine lettering dulled, spine and edges of boards sunned and the corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket price clipped, rear panel scuffed and darkened at the edge. Offsetting to endpapers from the dust jacket but clean throughout. A good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35165
- Title
- Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
- Author
- SIMENON, GEORGES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241899877
- ISBN 13
- 9780241899878
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...