AMBLER, Eric. Passage of Arms (with TLS)
AMBLER, Eric. Passage of Arms. London: Heinemann. 1959. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. With a typed letter signed by Ambler on letter-headed paper from his Los Angeles home, signed in ink ‘Eric’, loosely inserted. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some spots to the textblock top edge and to a much lesser extent to other edges. The contents clean and bright, fine but for a handful of patchy spots throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net) and complete, clean and bright, gently bumped along extremities, with a handful of spots to the white sections of the jacket. The typed letter folded once.
A nice example of this thriller set in South East Asia, about the discovery of a cache of weapons. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award, then the Crossed Red Herring. The recipient of the letter is Kevin Fitzgerald, and the letter reads: ‘Many thanks indeed for your letter and your good wishes. I shall indeed be in London for a few weeks in the spring. Perhaps we can have a fine bibulous lunch together.’ , dated November 23 1959. Uncommon with letter.
AMBLER, Eric. Passage of Arms. London: Heinemann. 1959. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. With a typed letter signed by Ambler on letter-headed paper from his Los Angeles home, signed in ink ‘Eric’, loosely inserted. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some spots to the textblock top edge and to a much lesser extent to other edges. The contents clean and bright, fine but for a handful of patchy spots throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net) and complete, clean and bright, gently bumped along extremities, with a handful of spots to the white sections of the jacket. The typed letter folded once.
A nice example of this thriller set in South East Asia, about the discovery of a cache of weapons. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award, then the Crossed Red Herring. The recipient of the letter is Kevin Fitzgerald, and the letter reads: ‘Many thanks indeed for your letter and your good wishes. I shall indeed be in London for a few weeks in the spring. Perhaps we can have a fine bibulous lunch together.’ , dated November 23 1959. Uncommon with letter.
AMBLER, Eric. Passage of Arms. London: Heinemann. 1959. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. With a typed letter signed by Ambler on letter-headed paper from his Los Angeles home, signed in ink ‘Eric’, loosely inserted. A very good or better copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Some spots to the textblock top edge and to a much lesser extent to other edges. The contents clean and bright, fine but for a handful of patchy spots throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net) and complete, clean and bright, gently bumped along extremities, with a handful of spots to the white sections of the jacket. The typed letter folded once.
A nice example of this thriller set in South East Asia, about the discovery of a cache of weapons. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award, then the Crossed Red Herring. The recipient of the letter is Kevin Fitzgerald, and the letter reads: ‘Many thanks indeed for your letter and your good wishes. I shall indeed be in London for a few weeks in the spring. Perhaps we can have a fine bibulous lunch together.’ , dated November 23 1959. Uncommon with letter.