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18 works
Georges Simenon
Le Roman de l’homme
Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1959.The true first edition, withdrawn from sale, inscribedSold
Georges Simenon
Les Soeurs Lacroix
Paris, Gallimard, 1938.Deluxe issue of a suffocating family dramaSold
Georges Simenon
Au bout du rouleau
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (May) 1947.Deluxe issueSold
Georges Simenon
« L’auberge d’Ingrannes » [Le temps d’Anaïs]
Lakeville, October 31, 1950.Simenon's complete autograph manuscriptSold
Georges Simenon
Mon ami Maigret
Tumacacori [Tucson, Arizona], February 1949.The only manuscript of the novelSold
Georges Simenon
Il y a encore des noisetiers
Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1968.Simenon's 200th novelSold
Georges Simenon
Mémoires intimes
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (October) 1981.The publisher's own copy: Claude NielsenSold
Georges Simenon
Un noël de Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (November 14) 1955.Collection of three stories, deluxe issueSold
Georges Simenon
Maigret à l’école
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (13 mars) 1954.Chronicle of a closed villageSold
Georges Simenon
Maigret, Lognon et les gangsters
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (February) 1952.Deluxe copySold
Georges Simenon
Le Revolver de Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (September) 1952.Deluxe issueSold
[Georges Simenon] Jean du Perry
Le Roman d’une dactylo
Paris, J. Ferenczi et Fils, coll. « Le Petit Livre », no. 623, [August 1924].Simenon published his first novel, Au pont des Arches, by subscription in 1921, but his first “popular” novel was this Roman d'une dactylo, published under a pseudonym: Jean du Perry, a name borrowed from a street in Liège, the rue du Péry.Simenon liked to claim that he wrote it in a single long morning, at…Sold
Georges Simenon
Un crime en Hollande
Paris, A. Fayard, (August) 1932.The novel was written aboard the Ostrogoth, near Morsang-sur-Seine, in May 1931, and is set in Delfzijl, in Dutch Friesland, the largest of the country's provinces. The manuscript was destroyed by the author. A murder, a love triangle, Maigret, and a question: should the police maintain order or assist justice?This title is among the first…Sold
Georges Simenon
L’Affaire Saint-Fiacre
Paris, A. Fayard, (October) 1933.This title is among the first 22 novels published by Arthème Fayard in the first series dedicated to him, which gave birth to Commissaire Maigret. The series was launched on February 20, 1931 with the publication of Monsieur Gallet, décédé and Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien, on the occasion of the celebrated Bal anthropométrique at the…Sold
Georges Simenon
Le Clan des Ostendais
Paris, Gallimard, (September 5) 1947.The rarest Simenon deluxe issue from GallimardSold
Georges Simenon
Le Veuf
“Noland,” Echandens (Vaud, Switzerland), July 7–15, then 25–28, 1959.Simenon's manuscript, given to his sonSold
Georges Simenon
La Marie du port
Paris, Gallimard, 1938.La Marie du port is, most unusually for Simenon, a novel written on the very setting of its action, at the Hôtel de l'Europe in Port-en-Bessin (Calvados). There is no murder here, but a romantic trap centered on the fisherman Jules Le Flem: when he dies, he leaves five orphans, each of whom must go…Sold
Georges Simenon
Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire
Paris, Fayard, (March) 1933.Another tragedy, an innocent man, and a dramatic outcome. A forerunner of Simenon's later “romans durs,” Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire is one of the finest titles Simenon published with Fayard. It is the opening novel of the second series issued by Fayard, following the first series of 22 titles with photographic covers. The new…Sold
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