"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
The Magician. Translated from the French by Helen Sebba.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Beverly Lebarrow, priced at £2.25 to front flap. No inscriptions, edges clean and white. A crisp, fine copy. A novel concerning an alcoholic conjuror. A supreme storyteller, this is one of Simenon's non-series pyschological dramas, which are amongst the finest in the genre. This element of his craft has been praised by writers from Ernest Hemingway to Andre Gide. Item #69076
Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 (2002), Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery and Detection, p363-5 (1976). Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99, 115. (1972).
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