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Epitaph for a Spy.
by AMBLER, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited,, 1938. In the bright dust jacket First edition, first impression. The author's third novel was written whilst Ambler was living in France; "his money went further there, but also it was a more stimulating environment. 'France was full of emigrés, some living on their wits, others with the most lurid of pasts. These were the sort of people I wanted to write about'" (ODNB). Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine and front cover in black, blue endpapers. With dust jacket. With the ownership inscription of Welsh opera singer Geraint Evans, dated 1971, to the front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, light fading to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, foxing and a little light scratching to top edge; a very good copy in the jacket with nicks to extremities, tape repair to verso, tiny closed chip to join of spine and rear panel, slight creasing to front panel.
Synopsis
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit's identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127401
- Title
- Epitaph for a Spy.
- Author
- AMBLER, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited,
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
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