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AUDEMARS, PIERRE [pseud. Peter Hodemart]: : NIGHT WITHOUT DARKNESS

LONDON.SELWYN & BLOUNT,1936.

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UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/GOOD-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - publisher's price (7/6 NET) to spine/ backstrip.Colour pictorial artwork illustrated front panel and slightly dulled/darkened spine/backstrip of dw/dj with white lettering to both,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph and story precis and publisher's review,with slight discoloring and grubbing - commensurate with book's age.Front panel detached along the entirety of it's front gutter's edge with creasing,rubbing with associated but limited losses; top+lower edges small nicks and closed tears and light chipping,corner tips with some minor loss.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip also with small tears and loss at edges, but lettering present with no loss.Rear panel with some shelf-wear,creasing and chipping+rubbing to edges and corners miniscule chipping and closed tears at head+foot of spine/backstrip's gutters,rear lower corner with closed tear and some partial loss.At some stage,the dw/dj had been sellotape repaired(?), evidenced by aged sellotape 'ghosts' at internal top+bottom edges of dw/dj. Detailed description but approx 98% present,could do with sympathetic repair or restoration and included as is,for completeness.Top edges lightly toned from slight dust-soiling with faint but minimal blemishes,fore-edges brighter but also toned with faint and minimal,sporadic foxing too; contents bright,tight and exceptionally crisp and clean - virtually foxing-free,and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with a bright,crisp, blocked gilt decoration of a yacht under sail to front,lower right-hand corner and blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, plain white eps - front endpaper with off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flap,which has bled through to concomitant area of half-title page,rear endpaper similarly affected with versos of it and of the last page of publisher's catalogue too,but pastedowns clean and foxing-free, hinges solid and sound without any splits or cracking.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 254pp [paginated] includes Books I-III comprising 10 chapters each respectively, 2-32pp [paginated] Spring,1936 publisher's catalogue at rear,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and individual Books' separator pages. Author's non-crime/mystery debut. To Jacques Giron,painter,his art was everything and when he was at work, nothing,nobody else mattered.So it was that when he came to the little French fishing village of Aumer and saw in childlike Francine Goulard the incarnation of all the beauty of the sea and the shore,he first visualized her as an exquisite picture - then he fell in love. Francine,enamoured by Jacque's charm,was convinced that she,too,loved him and consented to marry to marry him.And so they journeyed to Paris in search of new inspiration - but happiness was short- lived and Jacques was led to unfaithfulness.Heartbroken,Francine returned to her grandparents at Aumer, there to take up the threads of her old, tranquil life; but love came afresh to her in the form of Paul d'Amiot,a man of the sea and childhood friend - a love so deep and strong that with him she was prepared to become an outcast,facing the disapproval of both Church and people. Author's (rare - more so with a dw/dj) debut novel,one of four that were not of crime fiction.Better known to collectors and readers,for his later published crime fiction titles,with his series characters; Monsieur Pinaud and Hercule Renard - these novels being set in France.He also wrote under pseudonym Peter Hodemart. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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