Ambler, Eric. Journey into Fear. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.

Price: US$180.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Stated First American Edition. A well-read ex-library copy in salmon colored cloth with jagged blue design motif and type. Fraying/rubbing through cloth at corners/spine ends and a few spots at board ends. Some letters stamped totop page ends that were tinted blue at one point. Discoloration/soiling to board and page ends. Some paper residue from jacket flaps to both pastedowns and stamps to front pastedown. Hinge separated at verso of ffep with mull showing, but still holding. Page preceding rfep torn out which does not affect text. General wear, some small stains/smudges and corner creases. Tanning to endpapers. Jacket is approximately 1/4 inch short as jackets of this era were cut down to fit jacket protectors of the time which left a black residue along bottom and top edges of jacket, inside and out. Jacket is unclipped ($2.00), but bottom third or so is torn off due to prior owner trying to separate from book. About half of the missing piece remains and will be set in place in jacket protector. Inside of flaps have paper scarring due to removal from endpapers. Some foxing to inside of jacket and rear panel, short tear to top of spine and general edgewear/rubbing and marks. Colors remain surprisingly bright. 1st Printing

Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

Ambler, Eric. JOURNEY INTO FEAR. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 275 pages. In Good plus condition, lacking dust jacket. In publisher's salmon cloth titled in dark blue. Some general shelfwear and rubbing. Fraying to lower corners and tail of spine. Top edge blue. Toning to endpapers. Shelved case 6. 1376555. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Ambler, Eric. Journey into Fear. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition. [x], 275, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with navy lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, worn and little chipped, unclipped ($2.00). A WWII-era spy novel that inspired two film adaptations.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Eric Ambler. Journey into Fear (First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. A key Ambler title, basis for the 1942 film directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, and Agnes Moorehead. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner name on front endpaper. Jacket is bright, with light rubbing at the spine ends and a few pinpoints on the extremities.

Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

AMBLER, ERIC. JOURNEY INTO FEAR. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940., New York, 1940.

Price: US$3250.00 + shipping

Description: First U.S. edition. Inked inscription on the title page to a well known bookseller: "James Pepper from Eric Ambler." Light offsetting to the front and rear pastedown sheets, top stain faded, else a near fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with minor professional restoration to the spine ends, corners, and extremities. Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. This is Ambler's sixth novel and it is the basis for the 1943 film noir directed by Norman Foster and Orson Welles (uncredited), and starred Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, and Dolores del Rio. An attractive and bright copy.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.