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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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- 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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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
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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