Georges SIMENON. - Lot 224

Georges SIMENON. Mémoires intimes suivis du Livre de Marie-Jo. Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1981, in-8 paperback. Unabridged first edition without censorship, the work was withdrawn from sale following a court decision by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris on November 9, 1981, at the request of Mme Denyse Simenon-Ouimet, and reprinted with deleted passages and a note from Simenon concerning the deletion of these passages on pages 495, 496, 719 and 721 (31 lines deleted in all, including 25 from Marie-Jo). Enriched copy with an autograph letter from the author "to my great friend Claude Nielsen, who had the courage to fight fiercely for this book, congratulating him on having succeeded against all odds".