The Patience of Maigret
1940.
Harcourt, Brace and Company
, New York, United States
Jules Maigret is a renowned French police detective created by novelist Georges Simenon in 1930. Known for his calm, intuitive, and empathetic approach, he often seeks to understand rather than judge criminals. Between 1930 and 1972, 75 novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, and they have been translated into more than 50 languages.
Georges Simenon was a Belgian writer, who became one of the most prolific and successful authors of the twentieth century with about 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies of his publications
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Specifications
| Author | Simenon, Georges |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
| Place Published | New York, United States |
| Year Published | 1940 |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
First Edition (US) |
| Size | 8vo (Octavo 21cm x 14cm) |
| Pages | 311pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Very Good Condition - Note: Really in near excellent condition with only minor chipping on spine edges and a little shelf wear. Wrapper is largely white with red decoration, a Maigret profile on the front and details about Simenon with a photo on the rear. Now protected with removable clear archival covering. |
| Overall | Very Good Condition - Note: Produced in brilliant bright red cloth with the Maigret profile in black on the front board there are slight areas of edge scuffing and corner bumping only with a firm tight spine with early paper yellowing and some flecking on all edges, devoid of all extraneous notations too. |