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Ambler, Eric. CAUSE FOR ALARM. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Description: 284 pp. Light foxing on the endpapers. Black cloth. Corners bumped, small stains. Black illustrated DJ. Small chips, wear along the edges. VG/GOOD.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
AMBLER, Eric. Cause for Alarm. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: The book is firm with moderate tanning to the inside covers/ endpapers and slight browning elsewhere, initials on inside front cover, some dustiness to the edges of the textblock, cover bright. The dj is fairly worn with with some chipping to the top of the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Ambler, Eric. Cause for Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Early reprint. Black cloth with blue lettering and zigzag design. Classic jacket by Florian is worn, frayed at corners, missing small piece at head of spine.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Eric Ambler. Cause for Alarm [Hardcover] Eric Ambler. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
Price: US$45.77 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1940 Hodder and Stoughton edition - No dust jacket - Book slopes forward - Name to inner front cover and first inner page. Pages are tanned. Pages are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine is faded and scuffed. There is creasing/wear to the cover.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny edge nicks and wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny edge nicks and wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny edge nicks and wear, chip at top rear flap corner.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause for Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early printing. Near fine with a little browning on the endpapers, in a very good dustwrapper with a little edgewear.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ambler, Eric. Cause for Alarm. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$81.00 + shipping
Description: Pretty nice copy of this classic espionage novel. Black cloth with blue lettering on spine and blind stamp design on front board. Ink date (Dec 1943) and small ink blot on front endpaper, else unmarked tight and square. Price clipped jacket is the same as the first printing. Moderate edgewear to jacket at spine ends and front fold. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black and teal pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Florian, blue-green topstain; [12],284pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, especially at spine ends, 3/4" closed tear at bottom of rear panel, else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Spy thriller set in Fascist Italy, first published in 1938 in Great Britain.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny closed tears and wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.
Price: US$263.08 + shipping
Description: Second Printing. -- Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket with light colour touch-up to spine ends and edges of front panel. -- Details: A classic Ambler spy thriller. 'It seemed to me that the train had started to make a curious thumping noise. I tried to separate the noise, identify it, and realised that it was the sound of the blood pumping in my head. I knew suddenly that I was scared, scared stiff' 'Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiance points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for - not in fascist Italy, on the eve of a world war' [Penguin Classics] Eric Ambler (1909-98) is considered by many to be the creator of the 'suspense' genre as we know it today, as author of some of 'the most accomplished and innovative modern thrillers'. He was one of the first authors to employ the literary devices of flashbacks and multiple narrators, and wrote over fifteen novels in his lifetime, of which The Mask of Dimitrios was the most successful, bringing him to world-wide fame at the age of thirty. Later in his life he turned his attentions to screenwriting, and became the head writer for films such as Encore (1951), The Clouded Yellow (1951) and A Night to Remember (1958). First printed by Knopf in 1939. -- References: The Times, [web]. Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure, 205. Herbert, The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, 17. Symons, Bloody Murder, 228. -- Octavo (book size 19.5x13.6cm). pp. [14] 284 [6]. in publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in light blue, jagged line in light blue to spine and in blind to front board, top edge tinted light blue, fore-edge untrimmed others trimmed. Dust jacket priced clipped to upper corner of front flap, all other corners clipped to match, and with light colour touch up to spine ends and edges of front panel.
Seller: Lok Man Rare Books. ABA/ILAB, Central, Hong Kong