Passing Time

New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 310pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, with dampstain to lower edge of textblock (extending to lower margin of text pages); Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95), with modest shelf-wear and soil, tanning to spine panel and flaps, dampstain to base of spine, with tiny tears and rubbing to spine ends and extremities; Good. Originally published in French as L'emploi du Temps (1957), and written in diary format as a French clerk navigates work in an English industrial city and gains interest in a detective story. [84075].