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Journey Into Fear, (a Black Widow Thriller)
by Ambler, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Borzoi Books for Alfred A. Knopf, 1946 First Edition Thus. Hardcover, 12mo, in green cloth with impressed BWT logo, title in gilt to spine, no dust jacket, 275pp. British author and screenwriter Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was the progenitor of the international spy genre, influencing future characters such as Ian Fleming's James Bond. Set in the beginning of World War Two, the hero of Ambler's book, a British engineer, undergoes assassination attempts by a Nazi spy as he returns from secret scientific and political assignations in Turkey. Norman Foster's 1943 eponymous movie is a classic noir espionage thriller. Condition Very Good Plus. The book is very clean, with bright boards and red colored page edges. There is the smallest degree of rubbing. Inside, there is slight browning to the endpapers. One prior owner's sticker appears on the front pastedown. Hubin 7.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover . Very Good+.
Synopsis
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home – alongside, among others, an entrancing French dancer, an unkempt trader, a mysterious German doctor and a small, brutal man in a crumpled suit – he enters a nightmarish world where friend and foe are indistinguishable. Graham can try to run, but he may not be able to hide for much longer...
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7980
- Title
- Journey Into Fear, (a Black Widow Thriller)
- Author
- Ambler, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Borzoi Books for Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
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About the Seller
Dark and Stormy Night Books
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
About Dark and Stormy Night Books
Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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