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Click to view full description | 1. | Ambler, Eric DIRTY STORY
London: The Bodley Head, (1967). First edition, first printing. A near fine copy, very slightly splayed; in a lightly edgeworn and nicked photo-pictorial dust jacket that shows some tiny scratches to the front panel.
''A further account of the life and adventures of Arthur Abdel Simpson''--whom readers first met in Ambler's THE LIGHT OF DAY--adapted for the big screen as TOPKAPI by director Jules Dassin with stars Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov.
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| 2. | Ambler, Eric DOCTOR FRIGO
New York: Atheneum, 1974. First U.S. edition. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
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| 3. | Ambler, Eric HERE LIES: An Autobiography
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, (1986). First U.S. edition. Fine in an age-toned, else fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs reproduced on coated stock.
Autobiography by the author whose groundbreaking genre work in early classics like MASK OF DIMITRIOS and JOURNEY INTO FEAR prompted Graham Greene (no slouch himself) to dub Ambler ''our greatest thriller writer.''
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| 4. | Ambler, Eric INTERCOM CONSPIRACY
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First U.S. edition. Slight lower corner tip bump, else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a hint of fading to the color sensitive spine.
''Derived from a draft of the missing Charles Latimer's account of a WASPish weekly newsletter published in Switzerland and its connection with a splendidly ingenious con game managed by two retired secret agents.''
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| 5. | Ambler, Eric PASSAGE OF ARMS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First U.S. edition, first printing. Fine in salmon cloth gilt-embossed with Ambler's monogram to front cover, and spine stamped with gilt titles and maroon device; in double dust jacket, the inner jacket exhibiting some very slight shelfwear and a bit of age-toning.
The two jackets boast completely different illustrations: the outer one bears a landscape by John O'Hara Cosgrove II of an Asian harbor; the inner jacket artwork by Jean Carlu is a much more impressionistic melange of hands, automatic weapons and cash.
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| 6. | Ambler, Eric SIEGE OF THE VILLA LIPP
New York: Random House, (1977). First U.S. edition. Near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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| 7. | Ambler, Eric THE ABILITY TO KILL And Other Pieces
London: The Bodley Head, (1963). First edition. The original 1962 issue was recalled by the publisher and this expurgated first edition replaced it due to the threat of legal action. An about near fine copy in mauve cloth lettered in gilt to the spine; lacking the dust jacket.
Unique copy of Ambler's true crime collection bears this amusing inscription in his hand, ''To the author of CAPTURED BY WIRELESS from the author of ELAINE FLINCH, SECRET AGENT (a projected T.V. pilot) and SADDLESORE (Western original) with love.''
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| 8. | Ambler, Eric THE CARE OF TIME
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, (1981). First U.S. edition: Uncorrected proof. Mild fading to the spine, mild soiling to page edges and to rear cover, thus a near fine copy in grey wraps. Publisher has stapled a photocopy of the flap blurb to the inside cover and cellotaped review excerpts to the bastard title-page.
A relatively uncommon advance state of this novel by the author of THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS. ''Ambler's enigmas and chimeras are as potent as ever.''--The London Observer.
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| 9. | Ambler, Eric THE INTERCOM CONSPIRACY
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that is price-clipped and lightly creased along the rear panel.
Charles Latimer, English historian and novelist, who first appears in THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS reappears in a shadowy way in this novel of a con game managed by two retired secret agents.
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| 10. | Ambler, Eric THE NIGHT-COMERS
London/Melbourne/Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, (1956). First edition, first printing. Released in the U.S. as STATE OF SIEGE. Fine, in bright orange cloth with gilt spine stamping; in an age-toned, price-clipped, about near fine dust jacket, with light edgewear, a few short edge tears, and a shallow chip to lower edge rear panel.
Twenty-four critical hours of a military coup in a capital city in Southeast Asia: ensnared in the explosive situation are a highly paid oil technician and a Eurasian girl, who struggle to free themselves from the final outbreak of violence.
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| 11. | Ambler, Eric, et alia THE QUEEN'S BOOK OF THE RED CROSS
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. First edition. With an introduction by Elizabeth R, printed as a facsimile letter on Buckingham Palace letterhead. Frontisportrait of the queen. A few tiny dots of stain to fore-edge, offsetting to covers and endsheets, else a near fine copy in blue cloth stamped in red; in age-toned, nicked pictorial dust jacket with some tiny interior chips and short closed edge tears with attendant creasing.
Prose, verse, artwork (stunningly reproduced) by fifty of England's finest authors and artists; anthology created to benefit the Red Cross. Contributors: Ambler, Masefield, Mason, Dulac, Brangwyn, Wragg, Atwell, Novello, Milne, Heyer, Du Maurier, more!
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