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The Patience of Maigret. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.

SIMENON, Georges (1903-1989).

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1939. [Detective Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320; [1], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Contents clean, binding very lightly handled. A fine copy without jacket. Scarce pre-war Maigret, published in America the following year. Item #57166

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