Search Results: passage of arms by ambler eric 1909 1998

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First American edition; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, yellow with green and black print; DJ has small tears at spine ends and flap corners, price-clipped; Boards in brown cloth with gold and red print, very slight wear to corners and spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block has blue-tinted top edge, clean and tight; 246 pages. 1331230. FP New Rockville Stock.

London: Heinemann, 1959. [Gun-running thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.250. Publisher's hardback black cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 16s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, a few small marks and some splashing to edges of text block, lightly used jacket with a couple of short edge tears. A very good copy. A modern day pirate adventure, set in the South-Seas. This title was proof read by Ambler's novelist friend Ian Fleming, who was given an advance copy by the chairman of William Heinemann for the purposes of review. The lower panel of the published book jacket features a long review by Ian Fleming for Ambler's previous novel 'The Night-Comers'. Gilbert D10, D14.

London: Heinemann, 1959. [Gun-running thriller] FIRST US EDITION, ADVANCE COPY with exclusive 'Advertising' jacket. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.228. Publisher's salmon pink hardback cloth binding blocked in red and gilt, in typographic jacket with promotional blurb and text to front panel only. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with a little toning and browning to spine and extremities. A modern day pirate adventure, set in the South-Seas. This title was proof read by Ambler's novelist friend Ian Fleming, who was given an advance copy by the chairman of William Heinemann for the purposes of review. This copy is from the Otto Penzler collection, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with lot slip included. Gilbert D10, D14.

London: Heinemann, 1959. [Gun-running thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.228. Publisher's salmon pink hardback cloth binding blocked in red and gilt, in two pictorial dust-jackets priced $3.95- one of which was supposedly a trial jacket and not issued, but in reality very many copies came with the extra jacket around the book. A fine copy in fine jackets (Carlu version is very fine). A modern day pirate adventure, set in the South-Seas. This title was proof read by Ambler's novelist friend Ian Fleming, who was given an advance copy by the chairman of William Heinemann for the purposes of review. This copy is from the Otto Penzler collection, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with lot slip included. Gilbert D10, D14.

London: Heinemann, 1959. ['Rogue school' thriller] SIGNED UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.247, with map endpapers bound in. Publisher's yellow softcovers printed in black. Autographed to title page in blue ink. Contents clean, spine gently rolled, some wear to joints covers dusty with some small nicks and tears; very good. A modern day pirate adventure, set in the South-Seas. This title was proof read by Ambler's novelist friend Ian Fleming, who was given an advance copy by the chairman of William Heinemann for the purposes of review. The lower panel of the published book jacket features a long review by Ian Fleming for Ambler's previous novel 'The Night-Comers'. This copy formerly owned by bibliophile George Locke, then publisher Otto Penzler (who secured the autograph) and subsequently by Jon Gilbert, bibliographer of Ian Fleming. A rare proof with an interesting provenance (no other copies currently listed). Gilbert D14.