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Eric Ambler
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Uncommon Danger
Eric Ambler
AMBLER, Eric (1909-1998). Uncommon Danger. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Presentation copy of the first edition of Ambler’s second novel, rare in the dust-jacket. Published as Background to Danger in the USA and adapted into a film of the same name in 1943, it concerns the contested control of Romanian oil fields. Ambler 'raised the thriller from the subliterary depths, showing that the genre and good prose were not incompatible, and redeeming its conventions for more serious purposes than the usual gung ho display of macho derring-do' (Lewis).
Octavo. Original blue cloth lettered in black to spine and upper board (minor stains to bottom edge, small bump at centre of spine); original pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped at spine (repair to spine panel, faintly rubbed at extremities); custom blue quarter morocco box. Provenance: Bill Stuart (authorial inscription on title).
Eric Ambler
AMBLER, Eric (1909-1998). Uncommon Danger. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Presentation copy of the first edition of Ambler’s second novel, rare in the dust-jacket. Published as Background to Danger in the USA and adapted into a film of the same name in 1943, it concerns the contested control of Romanian oil fields. Ambler 'raised the thriller from the subliterary depths, showing that the genre and good prose were not incompatible, and redeeming its conventions for more serious purposes than the usual gung ho display of macho derring-do' (Lewis).
Octavo. Original blue cloth lettered in black to spine and upper board (minor stains to bottom edge, small bump at centre of spine); original pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped at spine (repair to spine panel, faintly rubbed at extremities); custom blue quarter morocco box. Provenance: Bill Stuart (authorial inscription on title).
