"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Maigret In Society.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, second impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman-Carter, with the printed price of 12s.6d. net. Contents clean, gift note in ink to endpaper, edges and extremities toned, jacket soiled, with a long taped tear to front panel. Good only. First published in French as 'Maigret et les Vieillards' in 1960. Chief-Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a former French Ambassador. Item #73374
Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p.167 (2002), Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection, p363-5 (1976). Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99, 115. (1972).
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