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AMBLER, ERIC.
The Ability to Kill.
2 copies: First and second printings. 8vo,
gilt-lettered red cloth, second printing with few light spots to covers; dust jackets with lam-
inate overlays, second printing with thin line of age-toning at extremities.
London: Bodley Head, 1962; 1963
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE WITH THE DR
.
ADAMS CHAPTER
.
Only about fifty copies of
this issue were bound for promotional purposes when a potential libel suit caused the publisher
to stop press and substitute an essay on Hanratty and the A6 Murders for the section about Dr.
Adams.The entire 32-page gathering was reprinted while the stock was still in sheets.A copy of
the corrected issue is included in this lot (London, 1963).
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AMBLER, ERIC.
A Passage of Arms.
3 editions. 8vo, cloth; dust jackets.
London or NewYork, 1959-60
[400/600]
First English Edition. Dust jacket crudely price-clipped. L: Heinemann, (1959) * Advance
Review Copy of the First American Edition. NY: Knopf, 1960 * First American Edition.
WITH BOTH DUST JACKET VARIANTS
,
dampstaining to one, by Jean Carlu and John O’Hara
Cosgrave II. NY: Knopf, 1960.
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AMBLER, ERIC.
Group of 11 First Editions.
8vo, cloth, dust jackets as called
for; condition varies but generally very good or better.
Vp, vd
[400/600]
By Eliot Reed.Tender to Danger. Few small chips to jacket. NY, 1951 * The Light of Day.
Slight lean, top-edges foxed. London, (1962) * A Kind of Anger. London, (1964) *To Catch
A Spy. London, (1964) * Dirty Story. Spine sunned; dust jacket crudely price-clipped, tape
repairs on verso.Toronto and London, (1967) *The Levanter. London, (1972) * Doctor Frigo.
Prelims slightly foxed; small tape repair on jacket verso. London, (1974) * Send No More
Roses. Spine sunned; small tape repair on jacket verso. London, (1977) * The Care of Time.
First Signed Limited edition, 35/300. Slipcase, soiling. New York, (1981) * Here Lies Eric
Ambler. London, (1985) *The Story So Far. London, (1993).
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