Uncommon Danger. Signed copy.
by AMBLER, ERIC:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937 1st edition.. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93038
- Title
- Uncommon Danger. Signed copy.
- Author
- AMBLER, ERIC:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937 1st edition.
- Keywords
- Literature ERIC AMBLER, Uncommon Danger, Signed copy, Very rare, Eastern Europe, British journalist, Russian agents, defeat, Nazi, plans, first edition
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...