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Eric Ambler. Uncommon Danger. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1937.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight book in original blue cloth, with clean pages and bright text. Cover has some rubbing at extremities and sunned spine, otherwise fine condition. The second novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, Uncommon Danger was made into a film using the US title, Background to Danger, released in 1943. A very rare book, especially in such condition. Also available from bookseller, two other Ambler books in similar condition: The Dark Frontier and Cause for Alarm.
Seller: Antiquarian Archives, Lakewood, NJ, U.S.A.
AMBLER, ERIC:. Uncommon Danger. Signed copy.. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937 1st edition., 1937.
Price: US$987.66 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 7 x 4.5 inches. In red cloth with blind embossed decoration to front and black lettering to spine. Top page edges red. In very good condition. A couple of small water spots/marks to cloth. Some rubbing to edges and corners of spine and boards, corners on boards slightly bumped. Slight lean to spine. Endpapers clean. Author?s inscription on main title page, ?To Miss K.M. Brown, with thanks for year of very efficient appointment making. Eric Ambler, August 1935? A couple of dark foxing spots to outer page edges and page margins. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 314pp. Very rare signed first edition copy of a novel set in Eastern Europe; a British journalist teams up with some Russian agents to defeat Nazi plans.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
AMBLER ERIC. UNCOMMON DANGER. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1937.
Price: US$6092.70 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's pale blue boards with black lettering. Very slight darkening to the spine and the peripheries of the boards. There are several foxing spots to the page edges and the early/late pages of the book. Overall a solid VG copy. In the VERY RARE D/W which is priced 7/6 net to the spine (as called for). The D/W has no loss but has some age-darkening to the white spine panel and along rear flap fold, and dust soiling to rear panel. Being hyper-critical there are 3 short edge tears and associated creases. A very shelvable copy of Eric Ambler's most uncommon book, his second novel. Rare. Scans invited.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Ambler, Eric. Uncommon Danger. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's light blue cloth. 314 pp, [6] pp. of ads. Endpapers renewed. First edition of Ambler's second book, inscribed by the author on the title-page as follows: "To Archie Rees with best wishes from Eric Ambler." CONDITION: Good, spine cocked, slight discoloration to edges of covers, edges of text block foxed, first few leaves foxed; in good dj with some rubbing and minor losses at edges.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
AMBLER, Eric. UNCOMMON DANGER. Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.
Price: US$9620.05 + shipping
Description: First edition. Original blue cloth with black lettering in pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, which just shows minor wear to the corners at the head of the spine, but is exceptionally bright and crisp. Eric Ambler is widely regarded (with Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene) as a principal pioneer of politically sophisticated thrillers. The five books that Ambler wrote between 1936 and 1940, upon which his reputation rests, are novels of complexity and realism, in which he introduced ordinary protagonists who are thrust into political intrigue they are ill prepared to deal with. In the process he paved the way for such writers as Len Deighton and John Le Carre, who described Ambler's novels as "the well into which everybody had dipped". The scarce author's second book.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom