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Ambler, Eric. Cause for Alarm. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1938.
Price: US$61.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black boards with cream lettering to spine. No dustjacket. 320pp. Library copy. Sticker to front pastedown, oval stamp and number stamp to copyright page, few marks to margins of some pages, blind stamped library stamp to bottom of rear board, rubbing to board edges. (7/6)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Eric Ambler. Cause For Alarm. Hodder & Stoughton, UK, 1938.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cause For Alarm by Eric Ambler First Edition Hodder & Stoughton 1938. A VG+ copy that has no foxing or toning to contents or edges and is free of any previous owner's inscriptions or marks. Publisher's blue cloth covers showing only minimal signs of wear.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Ambler, Eric. Cause for Alarm. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1938.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. 320 pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering. Good only, lacking original jacket. Scratched area on spine, faint soiling to cloth. Slight lean. Some erasures and worn spots on endpapers, small ink notation "p. 17" on front paste down. An early spy novel of the British author, set in Mussolini's Italy. Rare in its original British edition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Ambler, Eric. CAUSE FOR ALARM. London:, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Original blue/gray cloth with black spine and cover lettering, blue endpapers; in a new high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature and date to the title-page, covers show some rubbing, wear and mild soiling, else about very good. Eric Ambler was the recipient of four Gold Dagger Awards and one Silver. In 1975, he was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. CAUSE FOR ALARM is an early thriller by the influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Scarce in the UK first edition.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Eric Ambler. Cause for Alarm. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1938.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight book in original blue cloth, with bright clean pages and vivid text. Sunned spine is folded and slightly rubbed from use, otherwise fine condition. Fourth Eric Ambler spy thriller, extremely rare, especially in such condition. Also available from bookseller, two other Ambler books in similar condition: The Dark Frontier and Uncommon Danger.
Seller: Antiquarian Archives, Lakewood, NJ, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric.. Cause for Alarm.. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, 1938.
Price: US$2566.53 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the author's classic thriller set in Fascist Italy, scarce in the dust jacket. Provenance: from the collection of the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), with his posthumous bookplate. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, blue endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine slightly sunned and bumped, gutter cracked between a couple of gatherings, but sound, contents clean; dust jacket lightly soiled, but bright, extremities chipped, closed tear to rear panel, flaps without price as issued: a very good copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
AMBLER, Eric. Cause For Alarm (SIGNED). Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1938.
Price: US$2688.12 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early thriller from the master of the genre, warmly inscribed tothe title page: "To G.W. Boyle, with the best of wishes and thanks, from Eric Ambler". Rubbed, faded cloth but pages generally very clean throughout. Bright blue endpapers. Inscribed copies of this title are very few and far between. Just like buses, you wait forever, then two come along at once.They cost the same - or do they?
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom