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BACKGROUND TO DANGER.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Espionage thriller involving military secrets, Soviet agents, German agents and Rumanian oil. Filmed in 1943, directed by Raoul Walsh with George Raft, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Turhan Bey from a script by W.R. Burnett.
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BACKGROUND TO DANGER. [SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY].
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-280 [281-284], printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first U. S. edition. Signed inscription by Ambler on the half title page to Otto Penzler: "To Otto, enviously, / I've never even seen / this book at this stage -- / Eric Ambler / 21 IX 81." Signed and dated a second time on the title page. This is an advance reading/review copy. Espionage thriller involving military secrets, Soviet agents, German agents and Rumanian oil. Filmed in 1943, directed by Raoul Walsh with George Raft, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Turhan Bey from a script by W.R. Burnett.
CAUSE FOR ALARM.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-16] [1-2] 3-284 [285: blank] [286: printer notes], oringal green cloth, front and spine stamped in red, fore edge uncut, top edge stained red. First U. S. edition. Spy thriller set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of WW II. Hubin, p. 14.
THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-319 [320]. cloth. First edition. Published in the U.K. as The Mask of Dimitrios. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Made into a 1944 film featuring Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, screenplay credit to Frank Gruber.
THE SCHIRMER INHERITANCE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. Hubin, p. 14.
STATE OF SIEGE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Issued in the U. K. as THE NIGHT-COMERS. Thriller set in a Southeast Asian city during a coup d'état. Hubin, p. 14.
WAITING FOR ORDERS: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERIC AMBLER.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the Amber. The 26 copy lettered edition is the only signed limited of this title. Ambler would not sign a numbered edition. Introduction by Ambler. Includes eight stories, six feature Dr. Czissar, a refugee Czech detective written during World War II.