Epitaph For a Spy
by Ambler, Eric
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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New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf: Borzoi Books, 1952. Hardcover First Edition (1952), so stated. First Edition (1952), so stated. The front free endpaper has been removed. Else, Very Good: Shows lighrt wear to the extremities and mild rubbing to the panels; the aqua-blue floral print designs at the backstrip have been sun-blanched ( the titles on a… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938. First edition. First edition, first impression. 287, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with black lettering. A Very Good+, solid copy, lacking the dust jacket. Light wear, small scuff near foot, slight lean to spine. A British pre-WWII spy novel, filmed as Hotel Reserve in 1944. Item Price
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Tom with very / best wishes and all / the best - / Eric Ambler'. Publisher's grey cloth titled in black to spine and upper, with light blue endpapers. With the… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorative boards, red topstain. Stated first Borzoi edition. PO pencilled name, slight rubbing/toning to board edges, slightly softened spine ends/points. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is lightly chipped/edgeworn, with small edge tear to rear panel; very slight soil. ; … Read more about this item Item Price
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London; Folio Society, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. xviii, [2], 220. Illustrated with 8 coloured plates by Paul Blow, including frontispiece. Publishers' royal blue cloth with black and white titles to spine and black-and-white silhouette motif to upper board, housed in plain black paper-covered slipcase. Slipcase very slightly surface scuffed. A Fine copy, with no… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited,, 1938. His spy thriller, together with a signed menu First edition, first impression, of the author's third novel, scarce in the dust jacket. This copy is offered together with a menu, signed by Ambler, for a luncheon celebrating the novel's publication. The book was written whilst Ambler was living in France. "His money went… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First US Edition. Hardcover. 259, [5]pp. Patterned paper boards, paper label lettered in black on the spine, top edge stained red. Basis for the 1944 movie Hotel Reserve featuring James Mason and Lucie Mannheim. A touch of fading to the spine panel, small ink mark on the front pastedown endpaper. A near fine… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: The Folio Society, 2013. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 23 x 16 cm. Octavo. 220pp. Blue illustrated boards in slipcase. Introduction by Stella Rimington, illustrated by Paul Blow. Item Price
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Eric Ambler
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Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1952. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Teal patterned cover is worn at the extremities and toned on spine but clean. Boards are mildly warped. Spine is straight. Binding is tight. Pages have faint foxing but are otherwise clean and in very good condition. . Item Price
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London; Folio Society, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. xviii, [2], 220. 8 plates by Paul Blow, including frontispiece. Publishers' royal blue cloth with black and white titles to spine and black-and-white silhouette motif to upper board, housed in plain black paper-covered slipcase. Clean and crisp; appears unread. A Fine copy in like slipcase. The text… Read more about this item Item Price
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London; Pan Books, 1948., 1948. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST PAN PAPERBACK, Number 71. Octavo, pp. 223, [1]. Pictorial card wraps. Covers slightly creased and leaves lightly toned & foxed as usual, with no annotation or inscriptions. A very good tight copy. Third novel by the British author, an exciting espionage story set in the South of France.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Folio Society. 2013. Octavo, illustrated cloth boards, colour plates, pp vxviii, 220. Fine condition in near-fine slipcase. Classic 1938 spy novel, intrioduced by ex-MI5 director-general. Also includes a 1966 preface by the author. 1st thus. Item Price
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Epitaph for a Spy.
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London:: Hodder and Stoughton Limited,, [1938].. First edition.. publisher's cloth (lacking dust jacket).. The half-title was formerly securely glued to the front free endpaper, presumably to disguise a 1941 ownership signature at the top edge of the half-title (the signature is also lined out in ink); the two leaves have been separated, but the "pour-pattern" of the adhesive remains,… Read more about this item Item Price
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EPITAPH FOR A SPY
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NY: Pennant, 1955. 1st printing, June/July 1953; #P3. Cover art is uncredited. Stress; light lean; minor creasing; mild foxing and tanning.. Mass Market Paperback. Good+ to Very Good-. Item Price
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EPITAPH FOR A SPY
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1960. Reprint, 1960; #431. Cover art is uncredited. Printed in the Netherlands. Taped at spine heel; partil sticker remains on front; creasing; stress; minor stains; tanning; name on title page in pen; mark on top end.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Item Price
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Epitaph for a Spy
by Ambler, Eric
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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1952. Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked but for vintage bookplate on fep, Tight, square and clean. Surprisingly well preserved. Red topstain still vivid. Price intact jacket has tiny chip at head of jacket folds with neat tape repair on verso of jacket near head of spine though no… Read more about this item Item Price
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Epitaph For a Spy
by Eric Ambler
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Knopf, 1952. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First U.S. edition. 8vo in floral decorated paper-covered boards. Moderate rubbing at the corners and spine ends, spine sunned. Lacking the dustjacket. Item Price
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