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Cause for Alarm
by Ambler, Eric
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. 8vo, 284pp. Green cloth boards with red design and lettering, top edge stained red, in illustrated jacket. Spine slightly cocked, boards with a bit of edge tonin. Jacket shows edge wear and light chipping at head of spine, toning and rubbing to rear panel. Very good.
First American edition of this classic spy thriller from Ambler, set in pre-war Italy. .
First American edition of this classic spy thriller from Ambler, set in pre-war Italy. .
Synopsis
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 fiancee 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5963
- Title
- Cause for Alarm
- Author
- Ambler, Eric
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, 284pp. Green cloth boards with red design and lettering, top edge stained red, in illustrated jacket. Spine slightly cocked
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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